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

该项目的目标是开发协作工具，帮助解决困难的管理和社会问题，并在当今世界面临的一个重要问题上测试这些工具：全球气候变化。受维基百科（Wikipedia）和Linux等系统的启发，该项目将开发一个全球在线论坛——名为“气候协作馆”（Climate Collaboratorium）——在这个论坛上，来自世界各地的数千人可以创建、分析并最终选择人类应对全球气候变化的详细计划。该系统的核心将是一个不断发展的用户创建计划的集合，该计划基于计算机模拟人类可以采取的行动以及这些行动的预测影响。用户还可以讨论不同计划的利弊，并为他们认为最可信和最可取的计划和论点投票。这项工作的主要智力贡献将是关于如何设计大规模以模型为中心的集体决策工具和使用它们的社区的经验。更广泛的影响这个在线论坛至少可以帮助公众了解与全球气候变化有关的实际问题。但更重要的是，通过建设性地让广泛的科学家、决策者和普通公民参与进来，这个论坛可能有助于制定出实际上比其他任何方式都更好的计划和政策。简而言之，它可能成为气候变化模拟游戏、争议话题维基百科和电子民主的结合体。

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.