◥ University. {q} PhD. {t} Themes. {t} CI. Deliberatorium: Supporting Large-Scale Online Deliberation. Mark Klein; Ali Gurkan (Ecole de Paris); Luca Iandoli (University of Naples) The Deliberatorium is a technology designed to help large numbers of people, distributed in space and time, combine their insights to find well-founded solutions for such complex multi-stakeholder, multi-discplinary ("wicked") problems as sustainability, climate change policy, complex product design, and so on. See this video for an overview of the concepts underlying the Deliberatorium. Go to this page for more details on this project. Follow this link to access the system itself, which allows many authors to create deliberation maps collaboratively. For additional information, contact Mark Klein Selected publications How to Harvest Collective Wisdom on Complex Problems: An Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium.
Enabling Large-Scale Deliberation Using Attention-Mediation Metrics. Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change. Deliberatorium details on this project. Mark Klein, PhDPrincipal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Deliberatorium: Crowd-Based Innovation Current open innovation technologies fail badly when dealing with complex problems and large groups.
The fundamental challenge, ironically, is super-abundance: crowds generated so many ideas that it becomes difficult to manage the process and harvest the best ideas. The Deliberatorium is an online platform that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to help large numbers of people, distributed in space and time, combine their insights to find well-founded solutions for complex multi-stakeholder multi-disciplinary ("wicked") problems.
The system, under development since 2007, has been used by thousands of individuals in such institutions as Intel, the Federal Bureau of Land Management, and the Italian Democratic Party. Go to to access the system itself. Research Articles and Videos Popular Press Articles. See this video for an overview of the concepts underlying the Deliberatorium.
◇ KLEIN, Mark. ◇ GURKAN, Ali. ◇ IANDOLI, Luca. 2012 - (Klein) Enabling Large-Scale Deliberation Using Attention-Mediation Metrics. 2011 - (Klein) How to Harvest Collective Wisdom on Complex Problems: An Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium. 2010-11-09 - Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change by Jared Duval. 2007 - (Malone & Klein) Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change. 2007 - (Malone & Klein) Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change - pdf. 2008-04-10 - Bringing order to online discussions about climate change. MIT researchers are developing a new online forum that they say will help make discussions about climate change more productive.
Mason Inman Public discussion about climate change has always been heated, but online, those debates are notorious for being biased, poorly articulated, or simply ignorant. Researchers at MIT are creating an online forum that they say will help foster more organized debate and critical thinking. Their vision is of a website open to the public, where people can post about the latest scientific results on climate change and debate how to cut carbon emissions, and where politicians can get a sense of public opinion. The forum could not only help people get better information, but also help them work together to come up with and agree upon ways of tackling climate change, says Mark Klein of the Center for Collective Intelligence at the MIT.
Map that argument Klein points to Wikipedia as an example of the reach—and also the pitfalls—of online collaboration. 2008-04-25 - Climate and the Web: 'Electronic Democracy on Steroids' 2008-04-01 - MIT Sloan Spring 2008.