Futures - Collective Awareness Platforms

CAPS can be described as non-commercial, open Internet platforms, connecting citizens to each other (and to the "Internet of Things" whenever necessary) and providing them with a more effective way to: - Spontaneously adopt more sustainable behaviours and lifestyles, based on better information (extended awareness); - Contribute to a low-carbon economy, for instance by lending, exchanging and reusing goods at scale, across geographic boundaries (collaborative consumption); - Get facts/evidence from citizens for better decision making, at personal or institutional levels (e.g. crowdmapping); - Develop alternative collaborative approaches to problem solving (crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, participatory design, collective intelligence, collective decisions); - Actively engage, innovate and act, individually or collectively, towards societally, environmentally and economically sustainable approaches and solutions to tackle societal challenges: growth and employment, environment, climate change, health and education, inclusive societies, wellbeing, These social platforms offer new ways of problem solving, developing industrial ideas and gaining feedback from customers.

Question : Define Collective Awareness Platform (CAP). How does a Collective Awareness Platform work? Give some examples of Collective Awareness Platforms. What are the underpinning technologies? Explain what a CAP offers a company. How could a CAP be developed using a wiki platform, for example: for a large company? Give a case study of how it can be effectively used.