THE PROJECT

The United Nations Development Programme works to address global sustainable development goals through the use of best practice innovation methods and approaches. Meanwhile, Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence aimed to compile the tools and methods they had been testing with the United Nations Development Programme into a playbook for collective intelligence design. They commissioned Liminal to help create this playbook, which explores how to mobilise people, data, and technology to tackle complex challenges. Holis was part of the Liminal team.

THE OUTCOME

Building upon Nesta's research and codification of the four primary types of collective intelligence, we developed a five-stage process for collective intelligence design. We then evaluated over 30 existing tools to identify and adopt best practices that could supplement Nesta’s new tools. These were documented in a detailed playbook consisting of 222 pages, 45,000 words, 41 activities, guides and exercises, 69 prompt cards and one mission: to help address complex and global challenges by combining people, data and technology. This playbook has been widely adopted and is being introduced to members of the 60 UNDP Accelerator Labs worldwide through various training sessions. It is also available to download here.