What will it take to host a well-coordinated online research workshop of invitees interested in one of the following workgroups described by Tom?

1. LANGUAGING - What cross-disciplinary vocabularies and integral perspectives can help us work better together and communicate about the field of CI as a whole?

2. MAPPING - What are the varieties of collective intelligence and what fields, ideas, professions, etc., are relevant to CI -- even if they don't speak of themselves in those terms? How do these all relate to each other? What inquiries pursued by each approach to CI constitute a substantive (even unique) and potentially synergistic contribution to the field of CI as a whole?

3. DEFINING - How can we best define the phrase "collective intelligence", so that it expresses both the essence of our individual approaches and the broad extent of the field as a whole?

4. VALUING - What value would be added if CI became more coherent and visible, both as a capacity and as a field of study and practice? How do we articulate its benefits to the world?

5. RESEARCHING - What research questions, if pursued well, would make the most difference in furthering the field and capacity of CI in the world?

6. STRATEGIZING - What initiatives and mutual learning partnerships might we co-create or catalyze, that would advance the field and its ability to address collective problems, including major global challenges like climate change, resource depletion, terrorism, extreme wealth disparities, emerging "superbugs", and other major challenges?

Addition to MAPPING question...

Note: Under MAPPING we could add "What inquiries pursued by each approach to CI constitute a substantive (even unique) and potentially synergistic contribution to the field of CI as a whole?"

I am going to post these 6 questions in the question section of this forum.

one possible answer

A lot of direct person-to-person communication? We don't have a lot of people lined up, so such intimate connection might easily become part of the hosting.