Abstract—In this paper, we conduct a systematic survey of urban communities in Lithuania to evaluate their potential to co-create collective intelligence or “civic intelligence” applying Digital Co- creation Index methodology that includes different socio- technological indicators. Civic intelligence is a form of collective intelligence that refers to the group’s capacity to perceive societal problems and to address them effectively. The research focuses on evaluation of diverse organizational designs that increase efficient collective performance. The current scientific project advanced the state of the art by evaluating the basic preconditions in the urban communities through which the collective intelligence is being co- created under the systemic manner. The research subject is the “bottom up” digital enabled urban platforms, initiated by Lithuanian public organizations, civic movements or business entities. The web- based monitoring results obtained by applying a social indices calculation methodology and Pearson correlation analysis provided the information about the potential and limits of the urban communities and what possible changes need to be implemented to overcome the limitations. Keywords—Computer supported collaboration, co-creation, collective intelligence, socio-technological system, networked society. I. INTRODUCTION HILE the traditional approaches to public engagement and governmental reforms remain relevant, this research paper focuses towards the growing potential of digital enabled citizens to solve their social problems. The co- creation concept fundamentally differs from the traditional public engagement approach, while it focuses on the collective intelligence, awareness and responsibility of all stakeholders by creating the public good. The main paper idea is based on a presumption that the networked society is one of the most prospective future society organizations’ forms, because it has a decentralized structure and operates on a user-to-user mode developing productive computer supported collaboration. The field of ICT enabled Civic Technologies (or Civic Tech), an umbrella term to define ICT-enabled citizen initiatives, is growing annually 23% according Knight Foundation [1]. Around the world, civic organizations, individual citizens and even businesses experiment with ICT tools and available open resources to connect and collaborate with each other and with government to find innovative solutions for societal problems [2]. To support this, the international scientific society publishes the research results about the creative power of networked systems and their potential to grow under certain conditions “collective intelligence” [3], [4]. The recent Aelita Skarzauskiene is with the Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania (e-mail: aelita@mruni.eu). research results of Engel et al. [5] indicate that a collective intelligence factor characterizes group performance for online groups approximately as well as for face-to-face groups. However, the enthusiasms and optimism regarding the efficiency of urban communities’ activities and their influence on public good is supported only with fragmented research results [6]. The majority of scientific activities are oriented towards the governmental initiatives and integration of e- participation, e-democracy and open data tools. Because of the diversity in technological tools and information channels, the users of urban platforms face in praxis the problems with coordination, collective decision making and opinion structuring, security and privacy, information credibility, content quality, etc. Moreover, some of the citizens’ initiatives focus only on the formation of the society voice, and do not emphasize the feedback from government and importance of co-creative synergy between all stakeholders [7], [8]. Lithuania and the whole networked society are in critical need for the progressive innovations to upgrade co-creation processes between the civic and public to the next qualitative level. A breakthrough in the finance sector was created through the “blockchain” technologies, which could be equally applied in Civic Tech management for implementing democratic-by-design models of governance, establishing a decentralized and transparent decision-making, motivation system, enabling secure, efficient and anonymous engagement. Instead of relying on the traditional top-down decision-making procedures, the “blockchain” allows for such procedures to be entirely crowd sourced, delegating to the community’s collective intelligence the responsibility to monitor and evaluate its own achievements [9]. Hence, the scientific evidence based social models have to be developed in order to formulate objectives for IT developers to create and apply the better targeted and value creating technological solutions. II. CO-CREATION AS A NEW FORM OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN CIVIC TECH The new ICT paradigm, mobile communication, social media, Internet of Things and cloud computing, increasingly put the end user at the centre of innovation processes, thus shifting the emphasis from technologies to people. The success stories of services such as Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook rely on their users to create value with Internet 2.0 tools. In the private sector, the paradigm has been conceptualized under Service Dominant Logic (SDL) and Open Innovation 2.0 approaches, where the focus of co- creation is the value created for and by the users. The public Aelita Skarzauskiene, Monika Maciuliene Monitoring Co-Creation: A Survey of Lithuanian Urban Communities W World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering Vol:12, No:11, 2018 1019 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 12(11) 2018 Digital Open Science Index, Information and Communication Engineering Vol:12, No:11, 2018 waset.org/Publication/10009823