Open modeling/environmental NGO bridge

[johannes.hampp]

I really like your push forward in this direction, thank you Robbie!

There was the Bits & Bäume Conference in Berlin last November 2018,
which was aiming to crossover sustainability and digitalisation.
I believe some openmodders where present; maybe there were more ideas exchanged which could be added?

@robbie.morrison

• develop online satellite communities for formulating scenarios and undertaking analysis and interpretation

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Rather the satellite communities would formulate research questions, select modeling projects, develop scenarios, populate and run the models, and collate and analyze the results.

I also think that is the approach to aim for. Not only would this increase transparency, but allowing for involvement (thinking in the direction of Citizen Science here) could

1. increase the acceptance and understanding in the public of scenarios and results
2. increase the relevance of research questions and scenarios from the point of view of also single ‘critical’ individuals

As Tom brought up the openmod’s 5th birthday and a extra special event in Autumn 2019 and in conjunction outreach of the openmod community to other continents: NGOs could be valuable if we want to increase our outreach/branching to especially African/South Asian/South American countries. There could be some strong synergies if we couple the NGO outreach with the special event and the nearly carbon-neutral (NCN) conference idea.