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I have received the following interesting request from Luca Iandoli iandoli@unina.it :

I have worked at MIT for awhile on the development of a mass collaboration tool called Climate Change Collaboratorium. The tool has just been released publicly and through it one can vote for the plans for greenhouse gases emissions reduction that will be on the table at the Copenhagen conference. Anybody can join, vote for a plan and even create a new one. I would appreciate management education colleagues to help this worthy endeavor. (See how below).

Luca

MIT Climate Change Collaboratorium

What agreement would you like to see in Copenhagen?

Vote for the proposal you think is best or create a better one yourself at http://www.climatecollaboratorium.org . Until December 11, people from all over the world are invited to this site to develop and vote on proposals that describe the agreement they hope will be negotiated in Copenhagen. The results will be delivered to the UNFCCC. Visit the Climate Collaboratorium and let your voice be heard!

Global climate change is perhaps the most pressing and important problem currently facing humanity. The goal of this MIT research project is to address this important challenge through the creation of a new class of web-mediated discussion and decision making forums, called the "Collaboratorium". The system use an innovative combination of internet-mediated interaction, collectively generated idea repositories, computer simulation, and explicit representation of argumentation to help large, diverse, and geographically-dispersed groups systematically explore, evaluate, and come to decisions concerning systemic challenges.

Find more at http://cci.mit.edu/research/climate.html