Wiki government : how technology can make government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more powerful /

"In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, examines the Peer-to-Patent project. Discusses its design challenges faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise. Explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to hel...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Noveck, Beth Simone
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2009.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wphsz
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Collaborative democracy and the changing nature of expertise
  • Peer-to-patent : a modest proposal
  • The single point of failure
  • Peer-to-patent and the patent challenge
  • Patents and the information deficit
  • Designing for collaborative democracy
  • Thinking in wiki
  • Social life of information
  • History of citizen participation
  • Citizen participation in a collaborative democracy
  • Lessons learned.