Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
Information Technology Information Social Networks Digital Government
The dynamics of information within social organizations is relevant to innovation, productivity, and the sorting out of useful ideas from the general chatter of a community. How information spreads and is aggregated determines the speed with which individuals and organizations can act and plan their future activities. This talk will describe new mechanisms for automatically identifying communities of practice within organizations and for elucidating the spread of information within those communities. It will also present a new method for forecasting uncertain events using small groups of people, along with empirical results that show its efficacy at making predictions both in the laboratory and in the real world.
Please note that this event takes place at Harvard University's Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, located at 34 Kirkland Street.
This seminar is sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government.
