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Nowadays, information and communication technologies empower individuals’ communication, but are far from exploiting all their collavorative potential. Despite the recent surge of interest in technologies to help individuals collaborate, such as crowdsourcing, they are still in its infancy. And yet, such technologies are core to enable future smart infrastructures for the citizens. Indeed, participation and social innovation are at the heart of the development of emerging infrastructures such as the smart city or the smart grid, which require intensive collaboration within collectives. Here we focus on microgids, localized groupings of electricity resources and loads, which can function autonomously. We target novel technologies that empower human collectives to operate micro-grids to achieve sustainable energy management by supporting their self-awareness, cooperation, and self-governance.