Today Queen Beatrix of Holland officially asked prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende to head a newly formed coalition government, and so we closed down the Dutch Political Prediction Market that we had been operating for de Volkskrant. The election actually took place three months ago, on November 22, but the process of negotiating a new [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 20, 2007
Los Angeles conference on collective intelligence networks
We’re proud to co-sponsor the February 22 Conference on Collective Intelligence Networks, in Los Angeles, together with Cisco, Nasa, and the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
NewsFutures’ Norris Clark will present some business world applications of prediction markets, based on our 4 years of experience in this domain.
How time flies! Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds [...]
February 15, 2007
Washington DC conference on prediction markets
Last january, the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, a joint venture between the famous right and left-leaning policy think tanks in Washington DC, held a one day conference about prediction markets. The host was Robert Hahn, the Center’s Executive Director and co-editor of the recent book: Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions.
A complete webcast of [...]
