First Essence09 workshop – KMi, The Open University, May 5-6
The ESSENCE team in a snapshot taken during the workshop: from left to right: Jack Park, Simon Buckingham Shum, David Price, Luca Iandoli, Aldo de Moor and Anna De Liddo
On the 5th and 6th of May the first ESSENCE workshop has been hosted in KMi (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) .
The workshop has been organized to be both a face-to-face meeting between some of the ESSENCE team members (mainly form the UK and Nederland based members) and also to consult with subject matter experts in the climate change field with the overall goal in mind to understand how online deliberation technologies can enhance their work practices.
The subject matter experts that participated to the workshop are:
• Joe Smith (Creative Climate Project, The Open University),
• Stephen Peake (The Open University),
• Jane Corbett (LLCC, The Open University),
• Attila Tóth (ourclimate.eu network),
• Ray Taylor (Land, Atmosphere and Resilience Initiative)
The workshop operative objective has been to define the ESSENCE next steps and to delineate what contribution the ESSENCE project could bring to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the end of this year (COP15).
During the workshop several ESSENCE technologies have been showcased. Compendium and Cohere from KMi have been demonstrated together with other ESSENCE technologies such as Debategraph and MIT Climate Change Deliberatorium. The workshop developed a roadmap for ESSENCE to COP15 and explored strategies for further research lines and challenges to be addressed for the ESSENCE team/GSm community.
Related Links:
* Workshop Programme
* Workshop Videos of Speakers Talks and Technology DEMO
* ESSENCE Wiki
* Cohere – Discussion group on climate change
* Debategraph
* MIT Climate Change Deliberatorium
* GSm – Global Sensemaking social network
The six ESSENCE musketeers!!!!!!!!
Sep 10th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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