About
earthDECKS Ecosystem
DECKS in earthDECKS refers to a Distributed, Evolving, Collaborative, Knowledge System. DECKS are comprised of digital knowledge-cards (i.e., short stories, media portals, and other information resources about a topic) and user profiles, which integrate explicitly and implicitly collected information about each user, organizing a diversity of social signals.
Players make choices about the DECKS that they assemble and the methods they choose to “make media actionable.” These choices are aggregated into the user’s profile, which is represented as a generalized “avatar” or icon on the earthDECKS platform.
Projects on the earthDECKS platform serve as hubs around which to generate stories, which are organized and connected into DECKS. Knowledge-cards within a DECK (as well as across DECKS) are correlated and tracked through both manual and automated meta-tagging, clustering, and activity logging. Our hybrid human-AI recommender system uses this information to refine its capacity to provide recommendations and social media services to users based on their profiles.
Human pattern recognition acts on recommendations (choosing either to follow them or not), which enables machine learning to adapt and improve capacity to recommend. In this way, the earthDECKS Learning Engine evolves as users navigate diverse paths through this ecosystem, browsing projects, commenting on stories, engaging with other users, attending real-world events, and performing tasks in the real world that are reported back and tracked online.
earthDECKS provides stories about Impact Networks and projects about saving our valuable heritage (cultural, environmental, social). Our first media portal, PLASTIC connects the dots so that the right hand can know what the left is doing, enabling those concerned about the plastic challenge to learn more and contribute more effectively. Our second media portal, HELLO WORLD, to launch in 2020, is committed to increasing the potential of Impact Networks led by media artists and technologists.
Featured Articles
Below are key articles on this site. For other topics, search using the categories list to the right or the search function at the top. Our current focus is on
Plastic & Our Oceans: A Complex Systems Problem
- Adverse Health Effects of Plastic
- Circular Economy: Dame Ellen MacArthur
- Complex Systems Problems
- Cradle to Grave: Plastic Supply Chain
- Enshrouded in Plastic
- ESRI – Mapping & Visualizing Data
- Floater Technology for Ocean Cleanup
- Global Ocean Sensing
- Industry Response to the Plastic Challenge
- Learning for a Plastic World
- Leonardo DiCaprio – Saving Our Planet
- Nature’s Innovators: plastic consumers
- Ocean Debris Network
- Ocean Ingenuity
- Oceans – Measuring Planet Health
- Plastic Futures – PLASTIC, a short media piece
- PLASTIC Innovation
- PLASTIC: Overview of National Leadership
- Plastic in Your Drinking Water, Table Salt & Mother’s Milk
- Plastic Pollution Coalition: Campaign vs Single Use Plastic
- Plastic Roads – Global Innovation System
- Plastic Strategies for Innovation
- The Plasticene
- Plastiki: adventure stories & a big message
- Raising Awareness of Plastic Hazards
We also address other related sustainability topics, such as
Climate Change
- The Paris Agreement: Auditing Climate Change
- From Climate Change to Global Security
- Boston-Cambridge, and Climate Change
- Climate Interactive: Visual Modeling
Health and the Environment
- Dr. Zach Bush: What Happened to Our Nation’s Health?
- Plastic in Your Drinking Water, Table Salt & Mother’s Milk
Ecosystems for Complex Problem-Solving
- Complex Systems Problems
- Game-Changing B Corps & Benefit Corporations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiatives
Collaborative Intelligence
Games and Media for Learning
Mapping and Visualization
Smart Cities
- Gordon Feller: Pioneering Urban Futures
- Resilient Cities Partner Platform
- Greenbiz & VERGE: where technology meets sustainability
Rotating Leadership: team sessions