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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyClimate CoLab: Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Climate Change Issues Robert Laubacher (Project Manager), Mark Klein, Joshua Introne, Thomas Malone, Peter Gloor, John Sterman, Hal Abelson, David Karger, Luca Iandoli (University of Naples) Global climate change is among the most pressing and important problem currently facing humanity. It is also unique by virtue of being a truly systemic problem of vast complexity: it affects every one of us, and is directly affected by every one of our actions. Like nothing else, dealing with climate change calls upon us to engage in effective collective decision making on a global scale. The spectacular emergence of the Internet and associated information technology has enabled unprecedented opportunities for such interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been incoherent and dispersed, contributions vary widely in quality, and there has been no clear way to converge on well-supported decisions concerning what actions, both grand and ground-level, humanity should take to solve its most pressing problems. The goal of this project is to address this important challenge through the creation of a new class of web-mediated discussion and decision making forum, called the CoLab. This system, currently under development, will use an innovative combination of internet-mediated interaction, collectively generated idea repositories, computer simulation, and explicit representation of argumentation to help large, diverse, and geographically-dispersed groups systematically explore, evaluate, and come to decisions concerning systemic challenges. New site! Starting October 1, 2010, visit the new Climate CoLab site at http://climatecolab.org. See information about an exihibit on the Climate Climate CoLab at the MIT Museum Read an overview of the current plans and status of the project as of September 2009 See the article on this project in the summer 2007 issue of Innovations Watch a You Tube movie that shows how the deliberation component of the Climate CoLab works Read some recent articles in the press about the Climate CoLab: -->CoLab in Scientific American blog, October 2011 Read a working paper on the first pilot of the Climate CoLab's deliberation system For more information, please contact Robert Laubacher. Note: Prior to fall 2010, this project was called the Climate Collaboratorium, and some of the publications listed above refer to it by that name. |
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