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just to proceed the way they always proceeded? What kind of organization do these
actors want to be and how can this be accomplished? If I look back at the recent wiki
and branding-projects which I organized partly in line with my own convictions, I
wonder whether other actors involved will have the same or quite different explanations
of what is or should happening and had quite some other reasons to participate.
And if so, what does that mean for my convictions, for the way I will organize projects
or for my advices regarding projects in the future?
On a theoretical level, momentarily questions arise if and how the wisdom of the
crowd is to be reflected from the perspective of a complex responsive process-approach?
Or by asking the question if a process of organizing the wisdom of the crowd has
some resemblance with a complexity perspective in which producing synergy in a
complex situation is a theme (Zuijderhoudt, 2007).
3.7 Exploring the kinship between a complex responsive processapproach
and the concept of the wisdom of the crowd
A broad exploration of the supposed kinship between the concept of the wisdom of
the crowd and a complex responsive process-approach will offer me some clarification
if my intended research has some or enough connections with a complex responsive
process-approach. It will also clarify whether is sufficient affinity between my defaults
and a complex responsive process-approach to pursue my research within the Complexity
Group.
The use of a wiki and with it the associations of the concept of the wisdom of the
crowd canalized a lot of my default assumptions regarding co-creation, emergence,
framing, commitment, micro-power, communication and language. Wisdom of the
crowd as a concept is connected with communication through the interactive possibilities
of the new media. Wisdom of the crowd is a concept in which is proclaimed that
by sharing information and all kinds of expertise in a non-hierarchical way an effective
solution for problems is constructed and of the possibility of democratizing the policy
of companies, organizations and government. Of course political issues arise about for
example the supposed expertise of participants, about the levelling down of traditional
professional expertise and cultural leadership, and about the real and practical
conditions of participation. The wisdom of the crowd includes the same ideological
discussions and power games as everywhere else where human beings are depending
on each other.
At the time of my wiki-project I was aware of different dimensions in the project. The
wiki-project embedded an interpretation of co-creation through which every stakeholder
would have the opportunity of being co-responsible for the strategy (Wierdsma,
2005). The project also possessed an instrumental dimension in which was taken
into account that by involving everyone, everyone would be committed to the outco-
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