ESSENCE09 Workshop
Table of contents
- 1. Draft Programme:
- 1.1. ESSENCE09 workshopFIRST FACE-TO-FACE FORUM ON ‘ESSENCE’ ONLINE EXPERIMENT
- 1.1.1. The ESSENCE challenge
- 1.1.2. Research
- 1.1.3. Outcomes
- 1.1.4. Organizing Committee
- 1.1.5. May 5th, Tuesday
- 1.1.6. May 6th, Wednesday
- 1.1.7. Venue
- 1.1.8. Find Us
- 1.1.9. Information
- 1.1. ESSENCE09 workshopFIRST FACE-TO-FACE FORUM ON ‘ESSENCE’ ONLINE EXPERIMENT
This page has been designed to discuss the draft programme for the first ESSENCE workshop that will be held next May 2009. Here below you find the draft programme open to the ESSENCE09 group for discussion, changes and refinements.
Click here for a workshop report [Anna, Jack, please add your workshop maps and the group photo here]. The workshop was a great success, generating many ideas for the future. We have started work on a roadmap.
Draft Programme:
ESSENCE09 workshop
FIRST FACE-TO-FACE FORUM ON ‘ESSENCE’ ONLINE EXPERIMENT
May 5-6, 2009
KMi, The Open University
Milton Keynes, UK
The ESSENCE challenge
ESSENCE is the first public event organised by Global Sensemaking (GSm), a network formed in 2008 to develop human-centred computing tools to help tackle wicked problems such as Climate Change.
The overall idea behind the project is that digital discussion and deliberation technologies have the potential to provide a structured medium for building collective intelligence from diverse stakeholders, who often disagree.
Within this context the ESSENCE online experiment has been conceived with the overall goal to improve how climate science and policy deliberation is conducted, in local networks, national organizations, and inter-governmentally.
In particular, ESSENCE has been designed 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.
Research
Within the ESSENCE project we study and develop technologies for online discussion and deliberation, with the overall goal in mind to help to build online environments for:
• scientists to explore and discover common grounds and agendas in a very complex and extensive domain as environmental science is;
• policymakers to identify problematic issues to be faced in order to reinforce public policies and make them more accepted or even agreed;
• the Public to widen or build understanding on climate change issues and consensus about new climate change policies.
Outcomes
The workshop seeks to develop a roadmap for ESSENCE to COP15. We will also discuss strategies for further research lines and challenge to address for the ESSENCE team/GSm community.
Organizing Committee
Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi, Open University)
Anna De Liddo, (KMi, Open University)
Aldo De Moor (CommunitySense)
David Price (Debategraph)
May 5th, Tuesday
9,00:9,30 Welcome coffee and introduction
9,30:10,15 Update/Demo on Debategraph
David Price
Debategraph, UK
10,15:11,00 Update/Demo on MIT Deliberatorium
Luca Iandoli
University of Naples Federico II / MIT Center for collective Intelligence
11,00:11,30 coffee break
11,30:12,15 Update/Demo on ESSENCE activation
Aldo De Moor
CommunitySense
12,15:13,00 Update/Demo on Compendium/Cohere development
Anna De Liddo, Jack Park & Simon Buckingham Shum
KMi Knolwedge Media Institute,
The Open University, UK
13,00:14,00 lunch
14,00:15,30 Invited experts round table, I part: What stakeholders? What needs?
Invited experts: Joe Smith (The Open University), Stephen Peake (The Open University), Jane Corbett (The Open University)
What stakeholders are involved in the deliberation processes on climate change? What are their argumentation needs? What types of argumentation (meta)-maps do they need?
15,30:16,00 coffee break
16,00:17.00 Invited experts round table, II Part: Tools and Use Cases
Invited experts: Joe Smith (The Open University), Stephen Peake (The Open University), Jane Corbett (The Open University)
Discussion on tools and use cases (What tools for deliberation, argumentation and sensemaking? What use cases could we build to show the benefit of digital deliberation? How can we engage stakeholders in the climate change arena in online debates?)
May 6th, Wednesday
9,00:9,30 Coffee
9,30:11,00 The road to COP15, I part
Action plan to develop a demonstrator suitable for different audiences
11,00:11,30 coffee break
11,30:13,00 ESSENCE tools: What next?
Focus on 1 or many tools? Will tool interoperability really help? Do we need a basic conceptual model we can use to describe tool interoperability?
13,00:14,00 lunch
14,00:15,30 Exploring connections
Discussion about: International Advisory Panel, network (Who are we trying to impress? which roles?); dissemination (Can we crowdsource input?) and sponsoring (looking for new partners and Logos for Essence project)
15,30:16,00 coffee break
16,00:17.00 ESSENCE Roadmap
Discussion on future goals and research challenges for ESSENCE and next milestone and events organizations
Find Us
The Knowledge Media Institute occupies the top floor of the Berrill Building on the Open University's Walton Hall campus. Follow the signs to Visitor Reception - we're just a short distance away by stairs or lift.
Information
For additional information please visit the webpage below or contact:
Anna De Liddo (a.deliddo@open.ac.uk),
tel +44 1908 653591; fax. +44 1908 653169)
http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/essence/
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 | 2009ESSENCE_Aldo de Moor.ppt Preview No description | 988.5 kB | 11:26, 6 May 2009 | Aldo de Moor | Actions | |
| Debategraph - Essence.pdf Presentation by David Price (Co-founder of Debategraph) | 2.53 MB | 08:20, 11 May 2009 | Admin | Actions | |
| ESSENCE09-workshop-DeLiddo.pdf Anna De Liddo Presentation: Compendium and Cohere within the ESSENCE project | 10.03 MB | 10:54, 29 Sep 2009 | a.deliddo | Actions | |
| ESSENCE09-Wshp_Programme.pdf No description | 227.31 kB | 21:27, 2 Jul 2009 | a.deliddo | Actions | |
| UNINA-MITCCI.ppt Preview Luca Iandoli presentation on MIT deliberatorum | 4.42 MB | 11:46, 5 May 2009 | Lucaiandoli | Actions | |
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From Social Computing to Reflexive Collective Intelligence
"The IEML research program promotes a radical innovation in the notation and processing of semantics. IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) is a regular language that provides new methods for semantic interoperability, semantic navigation, collective categorization and self-referential collective intelligence. " edited 23:29, 16 Apr 2009
"ESSENCE (Ensemble SimulationS of Extreme weather events under Nonlinear Climate changE) is a DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) project that is conducted by CKO (Centrum voor Klimaatonderzoek) to explore the changing climate and its variability. A large-member ensemble of runs with a state-of-the-art climate model is performed to investigate the range of possible future climate change. The project is led by Henk Dijkstra from Utrecht University."
"As the Kyoto meeting on climate change grows nearer, the scientific evidence about changes in the world's temperature, and what it purports to show, is being hotly debated. The fact is that the debate depends on complex environmental and economic assumptions about climate change, an area where actual scientific knowledge is limited. Moreover, policy makers will decide if evidence for such a change exists and what should be done about it. The scientific debate on climate change, in the end, should be based on what would seem to be simple measurements of temperature. In fact, the data are limited and controversial and not of sufficient quality and quantity to support a rigorous scientific debate. One outcome of the Kyoto meeting would be an agreement to ensure better data in the future."