# RADICAL
COLLABORATION
WHAT IS AN OPEN COLLABATHON?
A collabathon is a new form of event based on a principle of radical collaboration and crowd-development. It is designed to leverage collective intelligence to accomplish multiple challenges of a shared goal together. The shared project where everyone contributes is open source and a platform tool that everyone is a stakeholder of. Instead of competing for a fixed period of time, a collabathon embraces collective ownership to keep participants engaged in their work. A collabathon campaign can span a broad period of time (eg. a year) but organized around 'sprints' which produce a pulse of contributions from the community over a week or a weekend. Collaboration rather than competition must be the source of collective strength and inspiration.
WHAT IS THE OPEN CLIMATE COLLABATHON?
The Open Climate Collabathon is a form of collabathon dedicated to the open climate project. It is an open event mobilizing a global network of Universities, civic tech groups, startups and youth to crowd-develop an integrated climate accounting platform, designed to help the world track and achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement by leveraging state-of-the-art digital technologies.
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VISION
Our shared climate future —consistent with a more resilient Earth system — requires a higher level of participation, collaboration and interoperability among climate stakeholders; from established government and private actors, to new climate action innovators and, ultimately, individual citizens. A tool that seamlessly integrates all elements in a transparent and participatory climate accounting system cannot be developed in silo.
MISSION
To develop and disseminate an open-source, integrated system and platform for helping the world transparently account and track its climate pledges and actions to prevent anthropogenic warming above 1.5oC.
ABOUT US
WE OPERATE AS AN INDEPENDENT
DECENTRALIZED COLLECTIVE
The Open Climate Collabathon was initially developed and incubated at the Yale Open Innovation Lab in order to collectively advance the open climate project. It was launched in 2019 as a proof-of-concept in the lead up to the UNFCCC COP25 climate summit.
In 2020, the Collabathon was launched as a non-profit initiative hosted by the Open Collective Foundation, organized by a collective of organizations (i.e. the co-organizing team) and governed by principles of do-ocracy. The co-organizing team is expected to commit efforts throughout a year long campaign, upon which the group is open for new organizers and team reconfigurations.
Finances are transparently visible to the community using an open books process with major governance decisions done by voting using Loomio among the co-organizing team.
2020 CO-ORGANIZING TEAM
Anyone can gain access to the core team, through proven commitment and responsibility, and contribute to the Open Climate Collabathon organisation and project. If you are new to this, start by contacting one of the co-organizers and offer your time to help. You can use Discord.