ESSENCE 09 Workshop - Workshop Introduction By Simon Buckingham Shum

May 5th and 6th 2009, KMi (knowledge Media Institute) from The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK) has organized and hosted the first ESSENCE workshop on eScience, Sensemaking and Argumentation tools for climate change deliberation. ESSENCE is the first public event organized by KMi in collaboration with Global Sensemaking (GSm), a network formed in 2008 to develop human-centred computing tools to help tackling wicked problems such as Climate Change.
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. This video shows the introduction to the workshop BY Simon Buckingham Shum, Senior Lecturer in Knowledge media at the open University and co founder of the ESSENCE project.

For a higher quality version of the video please visit the following website: http://media-podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/Essence09/20090717T172656_Welcome-S_Buc...

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Education

Tags:

• eScience
• Sensemaking
• Climate Change
• Online Deliberation