COIN Network

A global network of individuals and organisations leveraging co-intelligence to benefit enterprises and society — advancing equitable and sustainable futures across learning, governance, planet, development, work and AI.

About the network

Overview

The Co-Intelligence (COIN) Network, established in collaboration between the Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI (WSAI), IIT Madras and itihaasa Research and Digital, is a global network of individuals and organizations dedicated to the pursuit of leveraging “co-intelligence” to benefit enterprises and society.

Five Futures in a Co-Intelligence World
Five Futures in a Co-Intelligence World

Vision: To reimagine the co-creation of knowledge, value, and innovation through human-AI synergy, advancing equitable and sustainable futures across interlinked domains — Learning & Governance, Planet, Development, Work, and AI — by placing co-intelligence at the center of transformation.

It is inspired by the ideas proposed in the book, The Co-Intelligence Revolution; How Humans and AI Co-Create New Value. (See Amazon India, Amazon US; and the Substack).

People

COIN Fellows

21 fellows across five themes, fostering cross-disciplinary thinking on co-intelligence.

B. Ravindran
Professor, Head of Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI
Randall Balestriero
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Ravi Pendse
Vice President, Chief Information Officer
S. Sivakumar
Head of Agri and IT Businesses, Social Investments Programme Lead
Vishwanathan Anand
Five-time World Chess Champion
Vision

Five Futures of the COIN Network

Future of Learning & Governance

Co-Intelligence transforms the way we learn and govern:

  • Fosters interdisciplinary and systems thinking across physical-digital-virtual education environments.
  • Cultivates creative-experiencers (students, educators, citizens) to be active co-creators in their learning journeys.
  • New governance and risk-management models are required in a world that is a living system, and allows for emergence.

Future of the Planet

Aligned with an emphasis on Sustainable Wellbeing Impacts (SWIs), the network supports cross-sector Human-AI engagements in initiatives like:

  • Advance climate-resilient agriculture, renewable energy, and ecological regeneration - envisaging the Co-Intelligence Anthropocene.
  • Promote digital twins and GenAI agents for environmental / city modeling and adaptive policy design.
  • Embed sustainability into SDI platforms and ecosystem co-innovation.

Futures of Development

The Network redefines development as co-intelligence-led socio-technical empowerment. Rooted in Co-Intelligence Digital Public Infrastructures (Co-DPIs), it encourages:

  • Visualize development as value flows across interactive Human-AI engagements in NEST assemblages.
  • Deliberate on the foundational literacies (e.g., EcoAI literacy) and infrastructures (e.g., CoDPIs) needed to co-create such futures.
  • Design co-intelligent organizations that act as catalysts of Sustainable Wellbeing Impacts (SWIs) through real-time co-creation.

Future of Work

The COIN Network explores new paradigms of workplace co-creativity where:

  • Humans and AI interact as co-pilots across management ecosystems.
  • Workers become creative-experiencers, engaging in personalized, meaningful, and adaptive value creation.
  • Organizations transition into living-systems, enabling distributed leadership, fluid roles, and dynamic relationality.

Future of AI

AI in the COIN Network is envisioned not as a standalone tool but as a creative partner within co-intelligence flows:

  • It emphasizes responsible AI development, aligned with ethical and participatory design principles.
  • Promotes development of AI systems-in-the-loop-of-humans, supporting N2I2N and I2N2I engagements (network-to-individual and vice versa).
  • Encourages AI that adapts to the lifeworld of users, ensuring value is co-created contextually and inclusively.
Research & output

Projects

3 projects exploring how humans and AI co-create value across work, society and the planet.

Community

Events

5 symposia, seminars and dialogues from the COIN community.