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，帮助解决棘手的管理和社会问题，并就当今世界面临的一个重要问题--全球气候变化--测试这些工具。受维基百科和Linux等系统的启发，该项目将开发一个名为气候协作馆的全球在线论坛，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组不断演变的用户创建的计划，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。用户还将能够讨论不同计划的利弊，并投票支持他们认为最可信和可取的计划和论点。智力价值这项工作的主要智力贡献将是关于如何设计以模型为中心的大规模集体决策工具和使用它们的社区的课程。最低限度，这个在线论坛可以帮助公众了解全球气候变化所涉及的真正问题。但更重要的是，通过建设性地让广泛的科学家、政策制定者和普通公民参与进来，这个论坛可能有助于制定实际上比其他任何方式都更好的计划和政策。简而言之，它可能会成为一种气候变化的模拟游戏、一个针对有争议话题的维基百科，以及一个激动人心的电子民主。

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.