Center for Collective Learning

Registration for the Conference on Economic Complexity (CEC) is officially open! 🌍 🎟️ Free participation! 🎓 Day 1: Intensive theory course 💡 Days 2-3: Global speakers (agenda coming soon!) Secure your spot: complexity.world/registration #EconomicComplexity #CEC #Istanbul

Part 2 - How do groups make decisions? At CCL, we also focus on: 🏙️ Urban Participation: Crowdsourcing better cities. 🗳️ Digital Democracy: Tools for civic action. 🤝 Teams & Orgs: Driving collective intelligence. Explore further here: centerforcollectivelearning.org/projects

How does knowledge grow? At CCL, we focus on: 🌍 Economic Complexity: Rethinking development & innovation. 📚 Scholarly Dynamics: How academic ideas spread. 🏛️ Collective Memory: Why history endures. Explore further here: centerforcollectivelearning.org/projects

The Conference on Economic Complexity (CEC) once again opens with a summer course! 🎓 Join @cesifoti in Istanbul on July 8 for an intensive afternoon seminar on the Dynamic Theory of Economic Complexity. Stay tuned as registration opens soon! complexity.world

Why did a billion-dollar "City of Knowledge" fail, while a single innovation street thrived? 🏙️ On @oxfordpolicypod, @cesifoti unpacks the drivers of regional development & economic complexity using examples from Ecuador and China. Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=mEkFMS…

Excited for the Budapest Summer Workshop?☀️ Here is a look back at our Winter event to get you inspired! We'd love to see you there this June. Submit your abstract by Friday, April 24 👉: centerforcollectivelearning.org/budapest-summe… youtu.be/ezrwUXBkA_c

Get ready for two brilliant keynote presentations at CEC this July in Istanbul!🚀 İbrahim Tuğrul Çınar: Spatial economics & economic complexity. Johannes Wachs (@johannes_wachs): The digital economy, AI & knowledge work. Check out the full program here: complexity.world

Why do innovation hubs like Silicon Valley succeed while others fail? What sustains computer growth even as we forget Polaroid film? At the Royal Institution, @cesifoti reveals how laws of time, space, and value dictate global knowledge transfer👇: youtube.com/watch?v=q_Hm5Z…

❄️Trading winter for summer☀️! The Budapest Summer Workshop will take place on June 10-11. Join us to catch up on what local data science labs are working on and help grow our academic community. Submit your abstract by Friday, April 24. Details: centerforcollectivelearning.org/budapest-summe…

🎉We are happy to announce the official LinkedIn launch of the Center for Collective Learning (CCL).🎉 Follow our new page to stay updated on our research in network science, the digital economy, and how AI is reshaping knowledge work. Connect with us: linkedin.com/company/ccl-la…

Inclusion isn't just about sharing a classroom - it's about the connections formed within it. Using a novel experimental game to map peer networks, a new study co-authored by CCL's @mel2kill reveals how autism shapes social reciprocity. Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s4159…

The Conference on Economic Complexity (CEC) is back - this year in Istanbul. Submit your abstract at complexity.world and join us in July to explore the latest developments in economic complexity.

Meet our new Director! We are proud to welcome @johannes_wachs to lead the Center for Collective Learning in Budapest. His data & network science research explores the digital economy, AI's impact on knowledge work, and software. We are incredibly excited for this next chapter!

Our new paper in @ScienceMagazine shows that the adoption of AI in software development is explosive. By end 2024, 30% of Python functions on GitHub by US-based devs are written by AI. But we also see that it is rather experienced developers who benefit from using AI.

Have you ever wondered why the Vespa scooter looks a bit like a helicopter? 🛵 It's not a coincidence! Human expertise can’t just be copied and pasted, but in the right environment it transfers across industries. Watch @cesifoti explain on @MLStreetTalk: youtube.com/watch?v=vzpFOJ…

Today's economics Nobel went for explaining economic growth with "creative destruction" (Aghion & Howitt) and "technological progress" (Mokyr). As much as both those things mean innovation, it's interesting how different the academic paths of the laureates are:

Congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi, this year's Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine! On Rankless, you can learn more about their works, their co-author networks, and also their global impact. Check out their profile! Brunkow: rankless.org/authors/mary-e… Sakaguchi: rankless.org/authors/shimon… Ramsdell: rankless.org/authors/fred-r… *On Rankless, we use publication and citation data from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

At @ConfCompSys, @mel2kill presented her poster on how friendship can help counterbalance inequalities, while @zappala_chiara shared her work on gender disparities in science. She also co-organized the Computational Social Science satellite, where @cesifoti gave a keynote on the theory of economic complexity. It was a wonderful event to connect and exchange ideas — and to see the beautiful city of Siena!

What do fame, historical GDP, and gender equality in science have in common? They were all explored by our colleagues at @IC2S2 2025! 👏Congratulations to @philippmkoch for winning the Best Parallel Talk award this year, and huge thanks to @zappala_chiara & @mel2kill for their amazing presentations!