3 Questions: Thomas Malone on the Climate CoLab’s progress
Last week, the Climate CoLab — an international effort, based at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, that aims to harness the collective intelligence of people around the world to address climate change — hosted its annual conference. Participants discussed how new technology-enabled, crowd-based approaches can help to develop creative new ideas and take meaningful action on climate change. Thomas Malone, the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and principal investigator of the Climate CoLab, spoke with MIT News about the event. Q. How is the Climate CoLab doing? A. The Climate CoLab’s online community has more than tripled in size in the last 14 months. We now have more than 33,000 members from all over the world, including some of the world’s leading climate-change experts as well as scientists, businesspeople, students, policymakers, and many others. In our second annual Climate CoLab Conference at MIT, the winners of...