“Crowdsourcing” - a solution to Global Warming? Part 2
Per my previous post, I have accessed the MIT Center for collective Intelligence site to further understand their efforts in utilizing “crowdsourcing” to address the issues around Global Climate Change and sustainability. It is clear that they see the value. How and when the benefits are realized will take time to unfold. However, MIT has gone so far as to create what they have termed a Climate Collabortorium. Here is how Founder Professor Thomas Malone describes the activities of the Climate Collabotoroium.
What we’re trying to do here at the Center for Collective Intelligence with our Climate Collaboratorium is what we call radically open computer modeling to bring the spirit of systems like Wikipedia and Linux to the problem of global climate change. We want thousands of people all over the world to be able to interact with and modify the system, create real quantitative representations of plans for what we could do.
We also want them to be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different plans in an organized way, and we want them to be able to collectively select the most promising plans from all the possibilities that have been proposed.
In his interview on the MIT Sloan Business School Website, All Together Now (or, Can Collective Intelligence Save the Planet?) Professor Malone outlines his belief that the potential for collective intelligence can be a very powerful tool to address the challenges raised by Global Climate Change.
To solve the climate problem, we need a huge range of expertise. We’ve got to know things about the physics of the upper atmosphere and the chemistry of the oceans and the economics of carbon taxes and the psychology of consumers who are making decisions about when to drive versus take public transportation. Collective intelligence mechanisms are ideal for bringing together those diverse kinds of knowledge.
To download a copy of the first working paper created by the Climate Collabotorium click on this-Can We Exploit Collective Intelligence for Collaborative Deliberation? The Case of the Climate Change Collaboratorium.
-FR
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