Creating the Internet of Things as a Citizen Web
The Internet of Things is an emerging Information and Communication
Technology with revolutionary potentials. Its areas of application
include (1) the real-time measurement of the state of our
techno-socio-economic-environmental systems, (2) the development of
a Global Systems Science to manage our world more successfully, (3)
greater awareness of chances and risks to support everyone's
decision-making, (4) possibilities to enable self-organizing
systems, and (5) opportunities to create collective intelligence. I
will, in particular, reveal plans to build a "Planetary Nervous
System? as a Citizen Web", which is envisioned to be an open and
participatory information system to unleash the power of the
Internet of Things for everyone in the world.
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