Key dates in the development of the Collaboratorium
- Summer 2007
Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change, by Thomas W. Malone and Mark Klein, appears in the MIT journal Innovations, and lays out a broad vision for the Collaboratorium
- Spring 2008
New York Times Climate Blog and Nature Climate Blogreport on the results of an early trial of the Collaboratorium's large scale argumentation system
- Fall 2008
First prototype of the Collaboratorium's modeling functionality presented at a meeting of the Center for Collective Intelligence Executive Advisory Board
- Spring-Summer 2009
Initial protoype of a system that combines modeling, large scale argumentation, and voting is tested with users
- September 2009
Inagural moderators join the Collaboratorium community and the system is launched, with content introduced from this time on persisting