How Can I Help?

Keep in touch and be informed

• Join the mailing list
  
• Read Doug Engelbart's book and papers

Help with this year's challenge

• Let people know about the Program for the Future Challenge.
• If you know of a great collective intelligence tool in some domain, nominate it for the Challenge or encourage its creators to submit it themselves to the Challenge. 
  
• Propose a problem in a field of interest that is ripe for a collective intelligence tool to facilitate it.
  
• Look at existing projects and add comments, suggestions.
• If you have created a tool yourself, propose it for the challenge!
• If you have proposed a tool, recruit people for your team.  Post a help wanted notice.
  
• Join an existing demo team to add your expertise (e.g. programming or other technical skills,  non-technical skills such as domain knowledge, use case testing, demo design, etc.).  Look at the Help Wanted notices.
  

Help with financial support

• Help with fundraising for prizes and next year's conference.
• Sponsor a prize.
• Support the development of software tools to improve collective intelligence through, e.g., Google's Summer of Code, hackathons, sprints, Super Happy Dev Houses, etc.

Help with networking

• Build bridges and forge alliances between Program for the Future and other groups working for the same goals.
• Nominate someone to serve on the Program for the Future advisory board, or as a judge for the challenge.

Help document this endeavor

• Create e-learning courses or, e.g., MIT-OpenCourseWare content explaining collective intelligence and Engelbart's vision.
  
• Be a mentor for Challenge participants.
• Help Challenge teams in the area of virtual collaboration.
  

• Collect and organize media from the conference as well as suggestions made there.
  

• Help build a library of tools, documents, videos, e-learning materials, etc. related to collective intelligence in different fields.
  
• Help curate this library, or help people use it to find what they are looking for.
• Propose entries for MIT's Handbook of Collective Intelligence
  

Other

• Suggest other ways to move this program forward.
  

How to make suggestions

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