The Deliberatorium

Description

The Deliberatorium is a technology designed to help large numbers of people, distributed in space and time, combine their insights to find well-founded solutions for such complex multi-stakeholder multi-disciplinary ("wicked") problems as sustainability, climate change policy, complex product design, and so on.

• see this video for an introduction to the concepts underlying the Deliberatorium
• see this video for a 3 minute example of the system in use
• see this paper for a review of the project's contributions to date
• follow this link to access the system itself.

Selected Publications

How to Harvest Collective Wisdom on Complex Problems: An Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium. CCI working paper, 2011.

Enabling Large-Scale Deliberation Using Attention-Mediation Metrics. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, in press.

Supporting Collaborative Deliberation Using a Large-Scale Argumentation System: The MIT Collaboratorium. Proceedings of: Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing; Conference on Online Deliberation (DIAC-2008/OD2008). 2008.

Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change. Innovations Journal, 2007. 2(3): p. 15-26.

See articles about the Deliberatorium in:

• Sloan Management Review
• Nature
• New York Times
• MIT Technology Insider (page 11)
• Information Week
• MIT Tech Talk
• The Independent (UK)
• Human Technology Journal
• Chapter 4 of Next Generation Democracy
• Chapter 9 of Business Innovation in the Cloud
• Also see this entry, selected as a finalist in the 2011 Management Innovation Challenge.

Collaborators