Another theme in the software engineering and climate change arena would have to be that of decision support. We cover this somewhat in our discussions of raising awareness (where, for instance, we talked about a handheld tool that reads out the supply chain carbon footprint of a produce in the supermarket) but I think somehow it's helpful to separate the two themes. Awareness raising includes much more passive and less specific activities than decision making support tools.
Erm, but that's just preamble, really. Mainly I just wanted to post this example of a decision support tool for climate change: MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence's Climate Collaboratorium.
This system, currently under development, will use an innovative combination of internet-mediated interaction, collectively generated idea repositories, computer simulation, and explicit representation of argumentation to help large, diverse, and geographically-dispersed groups systematically explore, evaluate, and come to decisions concerning systemic challenges.
For something less wordy take a look at the YouTube video on the "deliberation component" is a little clearer. It looks like a set of protocols for using an online discussion board in the capacity of an argument map.
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