Peer Producing Global Public Policy I (The Manifesto)


Remember the Wikipedia (peer-produced) definition of peer production:

Commons-based peer production is a term coined by Harvard‘s Law professor Yochai Benkler to describe a new model of economic production in which the creative energy of large numbers of people is coordinated (usually with the aid of the internet) into large, meaningful projects, mostly without traditional hierarchical organization or financial compensation. He compares this to firm production (where a centralized decision process decides what has to be done and by whom) and market-based production (when tagging different prices to different jobs serves as an attractor to anyone interested in doing the job).

The term was first introduced in Benkler’s seminal paper Coase’s Penguin.[1]

This is how we are working on the manifesto. Get involved!!! Either by coming by the workshop room on the first floor on EGAP or on the wiki.



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Philipp Müller works in the IT industry and is academic dean of the SMBS. Author of "Machiavelli.net". Proud father of three amazing children. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

31. October 2007 by Philipp
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