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

[Michel Bauwens]

Excellent,

I've put it on the regular blog for the 28th, but you can puot it on Ning
right away as well,

Michel

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Matt Cooperrider <mattcooperrider at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
>
> ---
>
> 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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>>
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>
>
>
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http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html -
http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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