These days, everyone seems to be into smart mobs, swarm intelligence and crowdsourcingCrowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community, through an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design ... – maybe it’s about time to remember that a “collective on autopilot can be a cruel moron”, as Andrian Kreye put it in an article on Sueddeutsche (in German). Colleague Tassilo PellegriniTassilo Pellegrini studied International Trade, Communication Science and Political Science. He started his career at the Department of Media Economics at the University of Salzburg and later worked as a project manager at Prognos AG, the European Center for Policy and Economic Research ... also likes to emphasize that collectivity is not the end of the individual’s accountability, referring to Rafael Capurro who said that “in the light of the changed conditions of the distribution of power, the Semantic Web is a project on a global political scale; too important to be left to engineers or politicians.” This is my own meek translation of the much more elegant words Marion Fugléwicz-Bren found in her article Kollektive Intelligenz – nicht ohne individuelle Ethik (in German).