Climate Dialogues at Scale
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦

Climate dialogue held in Quebec, Canada.

As Montreal, Canada faces the impacts of climate change, local nonprofit Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) is recording climate dialogues to gather citizen perspectives on how to act. However, creating an inclusive dialogue involves producing a volume of audio, video, and transcript text that is difficult to make sense of using traditional means.

Jean-Noé Landry of Transition en Commun—an alliance of citizen groups, CSOs, and the City of Montreal—is partnering with INM to explore how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies can be used to organize and interpret these dialogues. The Global Change Program will support INM’s efforts to process these conversations  by linking INM’s efforts to Incite’s own expertise in artificial intelligence and narratives.

This collaboration will contribute to a better understanding of citizen perspectives on climate transition in Montreal and spark conversations around the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence in civic-led initiatives.

About the Team

  • Jean-Noé Landry is an Obama Scholar with over 20 years of experience in technology, participatory democracy, and community engagement. Jean-Noé specializes in leveraging data for civic empowerment and climate action.

  • Institut du Nouveau Monde is a leader in fostering participatory democracy in Quebec, bringing extensive expertise in community engagement.

For more information, visit Institut du Nouveau Monde and Transition en Comun.