In the article, we analyze how the professional and academic congresses create some kind of collective intelligence for communities. We describe the most important findings and definitions concerning the collective intelligence.

So, the congress participants produce and manage undestanding knowledge as a commons  (a common-pool resources of Ostrom). But the use of collective action, trust, empathy and cooperation facilitate the creation of collective intelligence. Congress are creative transitional spaces, it’s an opportunity to develop collective intelligence and to generate knowledge.

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