Deadline- 31 May 2013
Proposals are invited for contest on Adaptation and civil society groups to support the actions of government or take independent action to achieve climate adaptation. Winners will receive grand prize of up to $10,000.
Goals of the Contest-
- Harness the collective intelligence of large numbers of people around the world to create proposals for what humanity should do about global climate change. By helping scientists, policy makers, business people, and concerned citizens to think constructively together about this problem, we believe it may be possible to create better solutions than would have been developed otherwise.
- Help to educate the general public about the real issues involved in global climate change. By giving large numbers of people an opportunity to work together themselves on proposals to address climate change, based on the best current scientific knowledge, we believe they will come to understand the issues better and be better able to participate in political decision-making in their countries and communities.
- Provide a large-scale test of new collective intelligence approaches. Examples like Wikipedia and Linux show that it’s now possible for large groups of people to work together on very complex problems in ways that would have been impossible even a decade ago. We believe the new approach to collaborative problem solving being used here may be useful for other large-scale problems in the future.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- The contest is open to anyone in the world, regardless of age, nationality, or political viewpoint.
- This contest, however, is void where prohibited by law. It is applicant’s responsibility to check with their local laws to make sure that this contest does not violate any applicable law or ordinance, and to make sure that applicants are eligible to participate.
- If applicants are under 18 years old, they will need their parent or legal guardian to register on the Climate CoLab website and submit their entry for them.
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