Welcome to the wiki for the global internet dialogue and debate experiment ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change.
Use the navigation bar to explore the Challenges, Participants, and Technologies — which will coalesce into the ESSENCE Taskforces as people begin to collaborate on their chosen projects.
Register to join the wiki, flag your own interests, find collaborators, and help us shape this unique event.
ESSENCE is an immersive internet experiment, culminating in a face-face conference.
We want to build a definitive, public collective intelligence resource on the climate change debate. A resource, analogous to Wikipedia, but decidely not enforcing a “neutral point of view”.
You are… climate scientists, policymakers, campaigners… and any other stakeholders with an informed argument We invite you to pilot software tools designed to help facilitate structured analysis and dialogue. Map, summarise and navigate science and policy arguments underpinning the issues you care about... and collaborate with the development teams who are shaping these tools to meet the complex, systemic challenges of the 21st Century. 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, and being tackled by many other networks, which will be available for all to explore and enrich across the web. Ready?… / …Engage