# Welcome to the Social Observatory The human species needs to understand the forces that drive and modulate collective human behavior if we are to stand a chance of designing society 2.0, a society that amplifies and supports prosocial human behavior, agency, and participation that can safely steward this planet. The Social Observatory is a shared resource for the community, for the study of and experimentation with, human collective social behaviour. “Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting”, thus it is that we aim to inform data driven behavioural transformation for and betterment of collective decision making and human collaboration from these findings. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://socialobservatory.gitbook.io/lab-book/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.