Dear Sci 2.0 Colleagues,

You’ll recall that at the meeting I mentioned an upcoming Climate Science 2.0 collective intelligence experiment and event. This has now gone live.

Please fwd this to relevant stakeholders, as described below…

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence

Simon

Dr Simon J. Buckingham Shum
Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Media
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
T: +44 (0)1908 655723 F: +44 (0)1908 653169
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http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence

ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change is the world’s first global climate collective intelligence event — designed to bring together scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers, and the emerging set of web-based sensemaking tools, to pool and deepen our understanding of the issues and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

The event, starts online in January 2009 and culminates in a conference at the National e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, in April 2009.

During the pre-launch phase, we are beginning to identify and assemble teams of scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers to work with the tool developers on specific aspects of the complex set of issues around climate change.

The aim is to develop a comprehensive, distilled, visual map of the issues, evidence, arguments and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, that will be available for all to explore and enrich across the web.

The project is founded on principles of openness, transparency, and discovery; with no preconceptions about the conclusions that will emerge from the event.

If you are scientist, industrialist, campaigner, policy maker, tool maker — or someone with other ideas and resources to contribute — and are interested in learning more about and participating in ESSENCE, please get in touch.

Ready?… / …Engage

Organised by: www.GlobalSensemaking.net, Open University UK, Debategraph, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, UN Millennium Project, UK e-Science Institute