Public intelligence

The term Public Intelligence is one of the many terms for the individual gathering and evaluation process for information. Public refers both to the free accesibility of the information and the individual citizen as the initiator. Intelligence refers to the concept of organized information gathering.

Public Intelligence as a concept
Public intelligence refers to sources of information freely available to the individual to be the basis for it's role as a responsible and critical citizen as part of a group or state. -Gernot Hausar, 2003

Public Intelligence as part of OSInt
Public Intelligence is associated with the application of Open source intelligence (OSInt) to empower the public in its dealings with all forms of organization, and most especially government. It is an applied variant of Collective intelligence.

Literature
Sources containing the term public intelligence listed after year of publication.


 * Mitcham, C., Justifying public participation in technical decision making, Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE, Volume: 16,  Issue: 1, Spring 1997.
 * Reid, Herbert G., Taylor, Betsy, John Dewey's Aesthetic Ecology of Public Intelligence and the Grounding of Civic Environmentalism, Ethics & the Environment - Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 74-92