Information Routing Group
An 'Information Routing Group' (or 'IRG') is a component of social networks consisting of a semi-infinite set of similar interlocking and overlapping groups. Each IRG contains a group of 3 to 200 individuals (IRGists), and each IRG loosely shares a particular common interest; IRGists exchange information, as a group, a sub group, or individually within that IRG, via lateral communication. Any IRGist might be in 2 or 3 IRGs peculiar to them but with different IRGists. The idea was proposed in 1984 in the book "The IRG Solution - hierarchical incompetence and how to overcome it" before the advent of the Internet although personal computers plus modems were conceived as mediating contact, and would nowadays be referred to as a Social network service or a Collaborative innovation network and was intended to foster information and innovation exchange and to enhance group intelligence and Collective intelligence.
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