ABSTRACT
At the political level, collective intelligence can arguably be viewed as a public good when citizens contribute with their tacit insights, and the outcome of such insights is shared with the wider society, assuming that the majority of citizens within a given geographic area have access to such insights. To explain the sense in which tacit knowledge can be harnessed for the public good through its aggregation into a collective intelligence, in particular, the author shall emphasize the role of citizen tacit knowledge for societal development. Few studies have covered the spillover process of harnessing citizen tacit knowledge for collective intelligence as a public good that being both the transfer and sharing of tacit knowledge. It provides some indications about the challenges related to organizing and implementing the governance of a territory harnessing tacit knowledge and collective intelligence across a region as a public good.
