Rizwan Tayabali = Management

Consultant & Social Entrepreneur

We’re going to consider a new We’re going to consider a new

angle on Social Intelligence

The power of crowd intelligence. The power of crowd intelligence.

Socialising knowledge transfer

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Crowd-sourcing help

Back to Basics�

What exactly is Social

Intelligence?

Is there even one clear

definition?

1920 E.L. Thorndike first coined it1920 E.L. Thorndike first coined it

In 1987, Cantor & Kihlstrom

redefined it

Howard Gardner said it’s the

interpersonal facet of multiple interpersonal facet of multiple

intelligences

Daniel Goleman took the

neuroscience approach

Social Intelligence = Social

Awareness + Social Facility

They all essentially view social

intelligence as personal

7 the ability to get along well

with others and to get them to with others and to get them to

cooperate with you

But the world is changingBut the world is changing

Social intelligence is now also

networked intelligence

The Web 2.0 generationThe Web 2.0 generation

And platform intelligenceAnd platform intelligence

The semantic web

A whole new field called SID

(social intelligence design) has (social intelligence design) has

even sprung up

We’re more interconnected than

we used to be

So social intelligence can now be

viewed as a collective viewed as a collective

phenomenon

I know what you know, as long as

I know you!

Which gives us another

perspective to explore

An opportunity to change the

world

Why?Why?

Societal definition of intelligence =

Academic

This makes it a function of

economics

And since we have social

economic differentials, we also

have social intelligence

differentials

Balancing out these differentials

is what I call socialisingis what I call socialising

intelligence

In other words...In other words...

Facilitating knowledge transfer to

create a collective social create a collective social

intelligence

Using web technologies and SID

to create a community platform to create a community platform

for socialising knowledge transfer

Crowd-sourcing help by enabling

virtual volunteering

Crowd-Sourcing = Many to oneCrowd-Sourcing = Many to one

Virtual Volunteering = Doing stuff

directly online

Removing barriers to

volunteering knowledge

Socialising Intelligence!Socialising Intelligence!

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Does it matter?Does it matter?

Women are 20% more likely than

men to support charities or good men to support charities or good

causes

Source: The Newspaper Society

Women are generally considered

to have higher EQ

Women have more friends and

spend more time on social spend more time on social

networks

Source: Rapleaf Study

Socialising intelligence is sort of

dependent on all of these

But men are more into

knowledge sharing technologies

So the answer is...So the answer is...

Thank You!

Rizwan TayabaliRizwan Tayabalirizwan.tayabali@gmail.com

www.urbansurvivalproject.org

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