Technologies for qualitative meta-synthesis of community consensus

Systems methodologies toward wicked problems or societal complex systems usually call for a collaborative problem solving process. The products (solutions) of that process refer to somewhat collective intelligence. In this paper, some technologies for collective intelligence, or so-called qualitative meta-synthesis of community consensus, are addressed. Two technologies, CorMap and iView, conduct exploratory analysis toward those topics or ideas created bottom-up and facilitate human-machine interaction by visualization of the analytical process based on different algorithms. Those technologies are oriented to support collaborative deliberation undertaken by Web 2.0 tools.