By voting, do you mean elections or referenda? If so, I don’t think that would be a good example, it really sells short the entire concept of software systems augmenting collective intelligence.
By referencing voting, I was referring to one possible input into a decision-making process. I wasn’t considering the notion of electing human representatives. Rather, the outputs of that collective decision-making process could be any number of things, and would be determined by the nature of the collective effort. In the post I suggest one possible such decision making body that controls the purse of a charitable organization. In such a case, the output of the process could include decisions around funding determinations, rule or policy decisions, the creation of a lobbying effort, etc.
By voting, do you mean elections or referenda? If so, I don’t think that would be a good example, it really sells short the entire concept of software systems augmenting collective intelligence.
By referencing voting, I was referring to one possible input into a decision-making process. I wasn’t considering the notion of electing human representatives. Rather, the outputs of that collective decision-making process could be any number of things, and would be determined by the nature of the collective effort. In the post I suggest one possible such decision making body that controls the purse of a charitable organization. In such a case, the output of the process could include decisions around funding determinations, rule or policy decisions, the creation of a lobbying effort, etc.