Publications

Rafał Olszowski: A Review of Projects Using Collective Intelligence in Policymaking

This paper concerns ways of studying collective intelligence in public-policy processes. The author proposes an analytic method based on the study of collective cognitive processes. The proposed evaluation framework includes elements such as collective problem recognition, joint problem solving, decision-making and collective memory, while also accounting for the role of metacognition.

Rafał Olszowski: How Collective Intelligent Decisions in Public Policymaking are Made

A study of how collective decisions emerge in public policy, using the Kraków Participatory Budget as a case. The author proposes investigating the cognitive processes of e-participation: problem recognition, joint problem solving, decision-making, and collective memory.

Collective Intelligence in management

A book on how collective intelligence can change the way organizations, companies and communities operate. The authors explain the basic concepts, discuss applications in management, address risks and challenges of implementation, and present concrete tools and case studies — from collaboration platforms to Wikipedia, Threadless and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Casebook: E-Government 2.0

Politics is often regarded as a sphere with less innovation than other areas of life. The strength of the texts gathered in this volume is that they do not treat public policy as a domain reserved exclusively for administrators and experts. Particularly interesting is the chapter by Izabela Szeląg and Bartosz Wilk on tools that allow citizens to file and support petitions online.

Rafał Olszowski: Increasing the Effectiveness of Fake News Detection

The paper presents the results of the CollMind project, whose goal was to develop the digital competences high-school students need to recognize fake news and disinformation online — particularly on platforms such as X/Twitter. The project produced an educational programme and a software environment for jointly training a specialized neural network.

Rafał Olszowski: E-Government 2.0: Web 2.0 in Public Administration

The paper presents the assumptions and results of the "E-Government 2.0 in Practice" project, run since 2014 under Erasmus+. The aim was to develop modern, interdisciplinary curricula on public administration in the Web 2.0 era.