What is the Internet of Communities?

Dedoctive has two origin stories.

One is my co-founder Peter Lawrence’s lifelong interest in unstructured vs structured data, and how to release the potential of the former by leveraging techniques for the latter. To learn how Peter’s voyage of technical discovery is culminating in Dedoctive, visit his blog about Knowledge Model-Driven Q&A.

The other origin story is my lifelong interest in how to make human collaboration effective, particularly across organisational boundaries. This took me from the theory of Human Interaction Management (see “Human Interactions”, 2005, and my blog before 2020) to the theory of Supercommunities (see “Supercommunities”, 2021, and my blog from 2020 to 2024).

Now in 2025 we are using Dedoctive to launch Internet of Communities apps and I have switched to this, my third blog. But what is the Internet of Communities?

The theory of Supercommunities argues that we can best create a future for civil society by creating a new form of activism, which complements improvements to national and international policy and law by encouraging structured self-governance in communities of all sizes and types. Any community (city, town, rural area, or non-geographical) can become a Supercommunity. It just means learning how to face each new external challenge by restructuring. Done right, this results in antifragility – ever better protection for the interests of members, their environment, and their descendants.

The Internet of Communities is the technology enabler for Supercommunities, providing them with the apps necessary for effective action. I encourage you to read my blog series from 2020 about the Internet of Communities and the companion blog series from 2021, Simulation Technology for Ecosystem Wellness through Antifragile Resource Deployment (STEWARD).

This blog will explain how Dedoctive is delivering apps for the Internet of Communities. We are providing the informational tools necessary for people to adopt new green ways of planning, developing, and managing their built and natural environment. We are helping engineers deliver the underpinning infrastructure safely, effectively, and sustainably. We are helping people respond to AI by developing new skills that leverage the new industrial revolution for social benefit.

To find out more about these apps, watch this space! And if you are looking for the technical details of how the magic works, keep an eye also on Peter’s companion blog about Knowledge Model-Driven Q&A (and why Dedoctive is unique).