How to Harvest Collective Wisdom on Complex Problems: An Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium
@inproceedings{Klein2012HowTH, title={How to Harvest Collective Wisdom on Complex Problems: An Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium}, author={Mark Klein}, year={2012} }
Humanity now finds itself faced with pressing and highly complex problems – such as climate change, the spread of disease, international and economic security, and so on that call upon us to bring together large numbers of experts and stakeholders to deliberate collectively on a global scale. Such large-scale deliberations are themselves complex processes, however, with emergent properties that often prevent us from adequately harnessing the community's collective wisdom. Collocated meetings…
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