Deliberatorium Explained

A deliberatorium or collaboratorium is a form of online collaborative argument mapping. It was first deployed as the MIT Collaboratorium, and directed at the question of climate change.

History

In December 2008, Center for Collective Intelligence at the MIT Mark Klein tested a prototype of the collaboratorium at the University of Naples featuring a 200 student debate on biofuels.^[1]

Features

Deliberatoriums work by deploying a website which allows the public to post the latest scientific results about climate change. Once done, people can debate how to get rid of carbon emissions which is how politicians get feedback on public opinion.

The site operates similar to Wikipedia for authoritative reports but with a more structured, organized debate featuring an argument tree. These reports for the site come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

See also

• Collaborative software

References

• Group Thinking for Global Warming . MIT Technology Insider . . 2007 . 11 . PDF . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090219150230/http://cci.mit.edu/Insider_Best_of_2007.pdf . 2009-02-19 . dead .
• Web site: Mapping the Contours of Climate Change . 9 March 2009 . . 2013-09-25 .
• Book: Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means, for Power, Politics and Change . 159–161 . Jared Duval . Bloomsbury . November 9, 2010 . 978-1-60819-066-9 .
• Web site: Bringing order to online discussions about climate change . 10 Apr 2008 . Mason Inman . . 2013-09-25 .
• Web site: Climate Researchers Tap 'Wisdom Of The Crowds' . K.C. Jones . February 2, 2009 . . 2013-09-25 .
• Web site: Hack: Making Large-Scale Deliberations Better, Online: The Deliberatorium . Mark Klein . June 30, 2011 . Management Innovation eXchange . 2013-09-25 .
• Enabling Large-Scale Deliberation Using Attention-Mediation Metrics . Mark Klein . 2012 . Computer Supported Cooperative Work . 21 . 449–473 . 2272281 . 2013-09-25 . 10.1007/s10606-012-9156-4.
• Web site: Deliberatorium: Supporting Large-Scale Online Deliberation . Mark Klein . Ali Gurkan . Luca Iandoli . . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101010035354/http://cci.mit.edu/research/deliberatorium.html . 2010-10-10 . dead .
• 1795-6889 . Human Technology . 7 . 1 . May 2011 . 9–29 . The Advent of Open Source Democracy and Wikipolitics: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities for Democratic Discourse . Vasilis Kostakis . PDF . 2013-09-25 .
• Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change . Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization . Summer 2007 . 2 . 3 . 15–26 . 10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.15 . 1558-2477 . Thomas W. Malone . Thomas W. Malone . Mark Klein . . 2013-09-25 .
• A New Way to Collaborate . Martha E. Mangelsdorf . April 1, 2008 . . . 2013-09-25 .
• Book: Business Innovation in the Cloud: Executing on Innovation With Cloud Computing . Jim Stikeleather . Peter Fingar . Meghan Kiffer Pr . November 2012 . 978-0-929652-18-4 .
• Web site: Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems . Anne Trafton . January 13, 2009 . . 2013-09-25 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bringing order to online discussions about climate change . Nature.com . Nature.com . 16 July 2018.