George Pór PrimaVera Research Fellow Founder of CommunityIntelligence Ltd. London and Brussels Publisher of the Blog of Collective Intelligence http://www.community-intelligence.com/blogs/public George at Community-Intelligence dot com

George Pór is a facilitator of the transition of organizations and communities to higher patterns of collective intelligence and performance. He is an advisor to the European Commission and the European Investment Bank. His past academic posts include: Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD, Visiting Researcher at London School of Economics, Online Community Architect at U. of Ottawa, Lecturer at California Institute of Integral Studies and Université de Paris, Research Assistant at U. of Lund and UC Berkeley. George introduced a concept of "collective intelligence" as an evolutionary capability that emerges from a network of conversations pictured as the nervous system of social organisms. Currently, he is working on the design of a European research workshop on Collective Intelligence.

Select list of publications:

• Quest for Collective Intelligence, in "Community Building: Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business", New Leaders Press (1995)
• Nurturing Systemic Wisdom through Knowledge Ecology, in The Systems Thinker, October 2000
• Designing for the Emergence of a Global-scale Collective Intelligence, presented at the First Global Brain Workshop, 2001
• Liberating the Innovation Value of Communities of Practice, in the "Knowledge Economics: Principles, Practices and Policies" textbook (2005)  
• On Collective Intelligence and Communities of Practice in Evolutionary Leadership, by Peter Merry (2006), in Dutch
• Collective Intelligence as a Field of Multi-disciplinary Study and Practice, co-authored with Tom Atlee