Carina Antonia Hallin is the Founder and Research Coordinator of the Collective Intelligence Research Group at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Co-Founder of the Academy of Management's Community on Knowledge Integration, Synthesis and Engineering, and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), Massachusetts (2020-2022).
Hallin has published within the disciplines of collective intelligence, artificial intelligence, computer science, decision science, strategy, and management. She has a strong research interest in the validation of new decision support systems for organizations and governments.
Before joining the IT University of Copenhagen in 2020, Carina Antonia Hallin founded The Collective Intelligence Unit (CIU) at the Copenhagen Business School in 2016, where she was the head of the unit and managed a team of eleven employees until 2020.
Hallin is the founder of the first collective intelligence and crowdsourcing course in Denmark launched in 2015 at the Copenhagen Business School. Moreover, she has taught the courses Database Use and Design as part of the Global Business Informatics Program and Organisation and Innovation as part of the Master in IT Management at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Hallin is a listed knowledge partner to The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for collective intelligence. She is also a regularly invited speaker on collective intelligence for international and national organizations, such as The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Brussels Open Innovation Week.
In October 2019, she was appointed by the Collective Intelligence Conference Steering Committee to be the Multi-Site Conference Chair of the Association for Computer Machinery’s first virtual Collective Intelligence Conference 2020.
In 2019, Hallin co-founded the collective intelligence tech company Mindpool with serial entrepreneur Mik Thobo-Carlsen and architect Bjarke Ingels. The spinoff has received legal support from the Copenhagen Business School, and funding from the Innovation Fund Denmark, and other seed investors. In 2021, Mindpool launched The Global Mindpool Platform in collaboration with the UNDP to harness collective intelligence from citizens across 70 countries on their beliefs about climate change impacts and inequality.
In 2021, Hallin co-founded The Knowledge Integration, Synthesis, and Engineering (KnISE) Community. The community will be a catalyst for knowledge accumulation and integration on a timely basis and at a massive scale. It is proposed in response to the growing fragmentation of knowledge in business research. A particular focus will be on integrating meta-science and technology into ready-to-use decision tools, e.g., human-assistive AI platforms for knowledge creation, accumulation, and application.
In 2022, The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Government, which is co-edited by Assistant Professor Carina Antonia Hallin, is on Amazon for pre-order. The handbook provides a much-needed foundation for working in the field of collective intelligence combining human minds and technology for democracy and governance.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance has more than 60 contributors including scholars from other prestigious universities across the world explore the concepts, methodologies, technologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance. In this first comprehensive survey of the field. It is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, governance, public management, information technology and systems, innovation, and democracy.
In September 2022, Hallin’s cofounded research and tech spinout Mindpool was acquired by the world’s leading innovation platform, Wazoku, headquartered in London. The Mindpool team joined the Wazoku business as part of the transaction. Wazoku works with global enterprises such as NASA, Enel, HSBC, Shell and more to help them innovate at scale
Starting in 2023, ITU Professional Courses provide courses on collective intelligence and digital citizen engagement in collaboration with Hallin, respectively for the private sector and public institutions.
Moreover, from January 2023 Hallin will be working on the commercialization of her next research-based company Hybrid Intelligence World.
In January 2023, the IT University of Copenhagen clarified the legal conditions under which the launch and commercialization of the on-demand platform for science, education, and tech integration for the Fifth Industrial Revolution could proceed.
In December 2023, Hallin is appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor of Collective- and Hybrid Intelligence at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where she will contribute to the development and teaching of a new bachelor program in digital service management.