The report released by the UNDP explores the potential of Collective Intelligence (CI) initiatives in climate adaptation and mitigation.
About CI
- It is the enhanced capacity created when people work together, often with the help of technology, to mobilize a wider range of information, ideas, and insights.
- CI emerges when these contributions are combined to become more than the sum of their parts.
Potential of CI in Climate Action
- It can bridge:
- Data gap: Mobilizing citizens to generate real-time localized data, and brings together data sets to uncover new insight.
- Doing gap: Getting more people involved in taking climate action, and helping people monitor the follow through of institutions.
- Diversity gap: Bringing a wider range of people, including Indigenous communities and perspectives into climate processes and data collection.
- It can decrease:
- Distance Gap: CI initiatives foster a two-way exchange between scientists and local communities, enhancing scientific understanding and public knowledge, as well as creating mutual trust.
- Decision-making Gap: Closing gaps between opposing views and interests (like Climate vs. growth) to speed up required climate action.
Example of CI in India
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