[p2p-research] p2p-like law making: Italian law proposal for Net neutrality put on a wiki for collaborative editing

[Matt Cooperrider]

Does the following text work?  If so, tell me a date to post it, and I'll
create the post.  I also welcome feedback from the list in the interim.

Cheers,
Matt

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Peer Production of Public Policy

I've recently been exploring how peer production methods can be used to
build smarter public policy.  One benefit of this approach is that the
community that drafted the policy would then become a political force urging
its passage.  Such a scenario might provide a means to counteract the often
damaging influence of corporate special interest.

My first question, then, is how do we create an environment in which peer
production of public policy can occur successfully?  I find the following
excerpt informative.  It is taken from a Cooperation Commons summary <
http://cooperationcommons.com/node/343> of a work by Elinor Ostrom and Nives
Dolsak called "Governing the Commons in the New Millennium":

<blockquote>Resource users will devise new institutions for managing [a]
resource or change existing rules governing its use when the perceived
benefits of the change in the rules exceed the costs associated with
creating the rules and with the change of the resource use
pattern.</blockquote>

I suspect that peer production methods and appropriate web tools can help to
lower the cost of such institution-devising and rule-changing.  This in turn
would increase the pace of institutional innovation, at a time when new
rules and institutions for commons governance are desperately needed.

In order to move this research forward, I've created a wiki page at:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_of_Public_Policy

I hope that the work being done in this area is greater than what I've been
able to uncover so far.  If you have anything to contribute, please edit the
page or make a suggestion in the comments.

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Matt,
>
> perhaps you could write a little intro so we can announce your project on
> your blog and ask for more input there (2,000 readers ..)
>
> Michel
>
>
> On 5/24/09, Matt Cooperrider <mattcooperrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I've written the first draft of:
>>
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_of_Public_Policy
>>
>> Here are the needs of this article that I see:
>> - more accurate breakdown of the components of policy production
>> - more examples of collaborative writing and design of policy
>> - examples of the peer production of other components of policy production
>> (e.g. how swarm lobbying could help peer-produced policy get passed)
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Matt
>>
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