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，帮助解决管理和社会方面的难题，并在当今世界面临的一个重要问题：全球气候变化上测试这些工具。受维基百科和Linux等系统的启发，该项目将开发一个全球性的在线论坛--称为气候合作论坛--世界各地的数千人可以在其中创建、分析并最终选择人类可以为全球气候变化做些什么的详细计划。该系统的核心将是一个不断发展的用户创建的计划集合，这些计划基于对人类可以采取的行动和这些行动的预测影响的计算机模拟。用户还可以讨论不同计划的利弊，并投票选出他们认为最可信和最可取的计划和论点。智力价值这项工作的主要智力贡献将是如何设计以模型为中心的大型集体决策工具和社区使用它们的教训。更广泛的影响至少，这个在线论坛可以帮助教育公众关于全球气候变化所涉及的真实的问题。但更重要的是，通过建设性地吸引广泛的科学家、政策制定者和普通公民参与，这个论坛可能有助于制定比其他任何计划和政策都更好的计划和政策。简而言之，它可以成为一种气候变化的模拟策略类游戏，一个有争议话题的维基百科，以及一个电子民主的结合体。