SoCS: The Climate Collaboratorium: A Tool for Large-Scale Model-Centric Collective Decision-Making

SoCS：气候合作实验室：以大规模模型为中心的集体决策工具

• 批准号: 0968321
• 负责人: Thomas Malone
• 金额: $ 24.88万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0968321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SoCS; Climate; Collaboratorium; Tool; Large

The goals of this project are to develop collaborative tools for helping to solve difficult managerial and societal problems and to test these tools on an important problem confronting the world today: global climate change. Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the project will develop a global, on-line forum - called the Climate Collaboratorium - in which thousands of people around the world can create, analyze, and ultimately select detailed plans for what humans can do about global climate change. At the core of the system will be an evolving collection of user-created plans based on computer simulations of the actions humans can take and the predicted impacts of those actions. Users will also be able to debate the pros and cons of different plans and vote for the plans and arguments they find most credible and desirable.Intellectual merit The primary intellectual contributions of this work will be lessons about how to design large-scale model-centric collective decision-making tools and the communities to use them. Broader impacts At a minimum, this on-line forum can help educate the general public about the real issues involved in global climate change. But more importantly, by constructively engaging a broad range of scientists, policy makers, and ordinary citizens, this forum may help develop plans and policies that are actually better than any that would have otherwise been developed. In short, it could become a combination of a kind of simulation game for climate change, a Wikipedia for controversial topics, and an electronic democracy on steroids.

该项目的目标是开发协作工具，以帮助解决困难的管理和社会问题，并在当今面临的世界面临的重要问题上测试这些工具：全球气候变化。受Wikipedia和Linux等系统的启发，该项目将开发一个名为“气候合作者”的全球在线论坛 - 世界各地成千上万的人可以创建，分析，并最终选择人类对全球气候变化的详细计划。该系统的核心将是根据人类可以采取的动作以及这些动作的预测影响的用户创建计划的不断发展的集合。用户还将能够对不同计划的利弊进行辩论，并为他们认为最可信和可取的计划和论点投票。Intlectual值得这项工作的主要知识贡献将是有关如何设计大型模型集体决策工具的经验教训。这个在线论坛至少可以最少地影响更广泛的影响，可以帮助教育全球气候变化所涉及的实际问题。但更重要的是，通过建设性地吸引各种科学家，政策制定者和普通公民，该论坛可能有助于制定实际上比本来可以开发的任何计划要好的计划和政策。简而言之，它可能成为一种用于气候变化的模拟游戏，有争议的主题的Wikipedia以及类固醇的电子民主。