Harnessing Collective Intelligence to address climate change: The Climate CoLab

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1 Harnessing Collective Intelligence to address climate change: The Climate CoLab Presentation to ICT4S February 15, 2013 Robert Center for Collective Intelligence MIT Sloan School of Management

2 Agenda Combining crowds/experts to tackle climate change Overview of Climate CoLab How it works What we ve done so far Current activities Long term hopes Robert Laubacher 2

3 Combining crowds/experts to address climate change Robert Laubacher 3

4 A daunting challenge Climate change is a very tough problem Vast scope/complexity Multiple disciplines No one responsible party Robert Laubacher 4

5 but reason for hope Unprecedented new forms of web-enabled collaboration Robert Laubacher 5

6 Collective intelligence to address climate change Open source, crowdsourcing-based approach Online community With help from experts Develops proposals on what can be done Anyone can participate Robert Laubacher 6

7 Robert Laubacher 7

8 How the Climate CoLab works Robert Laubacher 8

9 Activity structured by online contests Community All users work members, individually or in teams to produce proposals individually or in teams, create proposals Experts Experts select select finalists based on feasibility and finalists uniqueness based on key contest criteria Authors Users work to improve proposals based on expert proposals feedback based on expert feedback Community All users & and experts experts vote to winners select winners, who present to implementers Robert Laubacher 9

10 Why contests: Plan NYC 2030 example Robert Laubacher 10

11 Quality of expert vs. crowd ideas 25 ideas expert ideas vs. 244 from ideas (plus 220 crowd ideas discarded inappropriate/redundant) 8 of 10 top ideas from crowd Robert Laubacher 11

12 Experts first decide on contest focus Advisors from leading universities and research institutes shape contest prompts Robert Laubacher 12

13 Community members submit proposals Coordinate Core is set of actions to address a key aspect of climate change Also includes: - How actions will be enacted - Whey thy are desirable Robert Laubacher 13

14 Proposals are made by teams or individuals Robert Laubacher 14

15 Simulation models show expected outcomes Coordinate Environmental (CO2 concentration, temperature/sea level rise, impact on key ecoystems) Economic (costs of climate policy, costs of damages) Robert Laubacher 15

16 Community provides input Coordinate Robert Laubacher 16

17 Judges select finalists Panel of experts review submittals Key selection criteria Novelty Impact Feasibility Presentation Robert Laubacher 17

18 Winners selected Wisdom of the crowd for Popular choice award and Expert judgment for Judges choice award Robert Laubacher 18

19 Best ideas presented to potential implementers Robert Laubacher 19

20 Work to date Robert Laubacher 20

21 Site traffic Beta test 2009, global contests 2010 and 2011 Over 50,000 unique visitors from 186 countries registered members Robert Laubacher 21

22 contests 2010 topic: Climate diplomacy 29 entries, 400+ votes, 3 winners, Presentations to UN Secretary General s Climate Change Support Team and House staffers 2011 topic: Green Economy 64 entries, votes, 6 winners Presentations to UNFCCC, Rio+20 organizers, House Natural Resources Committee Robert Laubacher 22

23 Current activities Robert Laubacher 23

24 Approach for current contests Break up the problem of climate change... Into a group of more manageable sub-problems Initial framework based on IPCC revised based on review by experts Robert Laubacher 24

25 Suite of linked contests Robert Laubacher 25

26 Schedule for current contest Entries close in April Selection of winners in May-June Winners prepare over Summer MIT event September Co-organized by MIT Energy Initiative Winners present to potential implementers Policy makers Executives and investors Best overall proposal wins $10,000 grand prize Robert Laubacher 26

27 What s next? Integrated proposals Integrated proposals in next round National and global level Collaborating with modelers to support integrated proposals Robert Laubacher 27

28 Our hopes Robert Laubacher 28

29 Long term vision Climate CoLab will help to develop better solutions than might otherwise have emerged Platform that can solve complex problems in other domains Strategic planning Health care Education Robert Laubacher 29

30 Join us Get out the word! Help to build platform and models Oversee contests as Advisors or Fellows Interested? Robert Laubacher 30

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