In collaborative spaces, the knowledge of an individual within the group is an asset to all only
if they are vetted as a reliable information source. This resembles the ideas of collective
intelligence (Levy, 1997, 1998, 2001). Through the information exchange between a groups
members’, decisions about strategy are made and vetted. However, as Levy (1997) points
out just because the group makes a decision does not mean that the decision they have
come up with is always correct or the ‘‘best’’ decision. Instead an element of information
literacy is employed here as the group discovers experimentally that information must be
checked for authenticity and that not every piece of available information is necessarily valid