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Another name for the "wisdom of crowds"
Naïvely lauding the alleged "wisdom of crowds" obscures the critical issue, which is the design of the distributed algorithm --- i.e., the social organization of the crowd.
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http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2004/12/another-name-for-wisdom-of-crowds.html
The Now Economy: Introducing Chris Hibbert and Zocalo
[Prediction Markets] decentralize decision-making by creating reliable predictions based on wide-spread expertise from people who wouldn't be consulted in any conventional forecasting pro...
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http://blog.commerce.net/archives/2005/03/introducing_chr.html
Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up to Individuals
Open Space offers a process for decision making that is the exact opposite of that used in most Western organizations: A collective understanding emerges from conversations, and individua...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/04/08.html#a1104
Participatory product development
Salesforce.com rolled out a blog that asks users to provide feedback on user interface design prototypes for a future version of the company’s hosted CRM application.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1416&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Wikis And Blogs As Instruments Of Citizen Participation
I see the above fantasy scenario giving much greater incentive to the individual citizen to participate and to feel ownership and responsibility for the direction and decisions that her d...
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http://www.masternewmedia.org/2005/05/11/wikis_and_blogs_as_instruments.htm
Bowling Alone
Democratic disarray may be linked to a broad and continuing erosion of civic engagement that began a quarter-century ago.
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html#FOOT1
Bowling Together
There is a growing recognition on the part of many within the developed democracies that new relationships between citizens and institutions of governance must emerge if a crisis of democ...
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http://www.bowlingtogether.net
The Center for Deliberative Democracy
The Center for Deliberative Democracy, housed in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliber...
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http://cdd.stanford.edu
The Co-Intelligence Institute
Healthy communities, institutions and societies -- perhaps even our collective survival -- depend on our ability to organize our collective affairs more wisely, in tune with each other an...
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http://www.co-intelligence.org
International Teledemocracy Centre
Aims to develop and apply advanced information and communication technology to enhance and support the democratic decision-making process.
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http://itc.napier.ac.uk
MP Urges Constituents to Participate in Groundbreaking Online Health Consultation
The groundbreaking online consultation brings together policy makers, patients and carers to seek opinions on experiences of diabetes care and how the targets in the National Service Fram...
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http://www.leicester-libdems.org.uk/news/59.html
Online Consultation Technologies Centre of Expertise
Strives to inform and support Canadian departments and agencies who wish to undertake online consultation activities.
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http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/onlineconsultation/text/index-e.html
Active Democracy : Citizen Participation in Decision Making
Information which individuals, groups or organisations can use to enhance citizens' involvement in the activities of local, state or federal government.
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http://www.activedemocracy.net
Civic Practices Network
A collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives within the civic renewal movement. We share a commitment to bring practical met...
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http://www.cpn.org
CTC Keynote: Thomas Malone
Some of the most important innovations in the coming decades will not be new technologies. They'll be be new ways of organiating work that are made possible by these new technologies.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/ctc_keynote_tho.html
CTC: Collaboration Is IT's Last Chance to Matter
Employees know what they are doing, sticking with email despite the problems until something better comes along.
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/06/20/ctc_collaboration_is_its_last_chance_to_matt...
Participatory democracy
Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
Democracy in the Age of Information: A Reconception of the Public Sphere
How might the reconfiguration of communication enabled by the Internet work to create a new form of 'cyberdemocracy' which better represents citizens' interests?
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/gaynor/intro.htm
Communitypeople.net
Making stakeholders part of the process gives them a stake in the outcome.
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http://www.communitypeople.net
Survey: Engaged employees = engaged customers
Organizations with engaged employees have customers who use their products more, and increased customer usage leads to higher levels of customer satisfaction.
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http://www.nevon.net/nevon/2005/06/survey_engaged_.html
Chris. F. Masse .COM
Aiming at predicting the future. Prediction markets and other predictive powers
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http://www.chrisfmasse.com
More del.icio.us collaborative filtering
There isn't yet a natural, reliable, or comprehensive way to connect me to interesting developments in tangentially related realms, where interest is determined by a group connected to mi...
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/07/01.html#a1261
Presidential Futures Markets: Spurious Predictive Powers
Investors who make financial decisions based on what these "prediction markets" suggest are engaging in risky financial behavior – despite the fact they have become de rigeur among the ...
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/10/presidential_fu.html
The kinda-eventually-sorta-mostly-almost Efficient Market Theory
If you think that Human Beings are rational, calculating machines, without systematic biases, whose behavior can be predicted with mathematical models, then EMH is for you.
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/11/the_mostlykinda.html
Extreme Democracy
A deliberative process that places total confidence in the people, opening the policy-making process to many centers of power through deeply networked coalitions that can be organized aro...
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http://www.extremedemocracy.com
Evolving search, metadata, and trust into the Experts' Net
People, in the aggregate, like to believe in a trusted or aspirational authority figure whether it is a blogger, a movie star, or some other highly respected professional. Too many choice...
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http://gordon.blogsmith.com/2005/07/06/evolving-search-metadata-trust-into-the-experts-net
Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation
But with gloomy financial forecasts and declines in circulation, some papers are starting to see participatory journalism as their hope for reconnecting with their audiences.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/business/media/04paper.html
Brands: Think people, not products
I suspect that tomorrow's most powerful brands probably won't be companies at all. They'll be the customers themselves. [...] Because you trust [the tastemakers], you're willing to follow...
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http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/07/brands_in_the_l.html
Productive Friction at eBay
The friction generated by such interactions [between Ebay stakeholders] can often be mistaken for unhappiness, rather than as an encouraging sign that people are engaged and care about ou...
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/07/productive_fric.html?campai...
Social Network Analysis: What to Map
Organization needs to look beyond the objective quantitative attributes of network links (the frequency of connections) and survey you and everyone else in the organization to [understand...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/08/11.html#a1240
Drilling for Broke? Experts Debate 'Peak Oil'
Uncertainty about the world [is not] a good reason to prefer government intervention over market solutions; if the market is uncertain, then so should you be about what the best governmen...
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http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/econoblog08032005.htm
Quality's in the Eye of the Beholder
We ask customers and developers and partners, basically every constituency at Sun the world over, 'Would you recommend Sun?' If they say 'yes,' we ask why. And we do more of what they say.
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=defining_quality
Who Do We Work For?
Since we have the technology to buy and sell so easily, can we not also have the ability to impart more information into the transaction? To tell the Board that we’d prefer them to thin...
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http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/07/23/ghoshal
Social software and politics
But the political potential of social software and group-forming networks hasn't been realized quite yet. [...] . What if we removed our identification with one party or another, and appr...
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http://www.extremedemocracy.com/archives/2005/07/social_software.html
Open source leadership
[The project leaders I talked to] had strong ethics, were humble, were extremely sensitive of the needs of their community and lead more through coordination and management of processes t...
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http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/08/12/open_source_leadership.html#comments
Coordination Theory in a Flat World
Business is in the process of changing from a dense, centralized hierarchies to loose, decentralized networks of workers, specialists, and consultants.
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http://www.advancinginsights.com/mybiz/coordination_theory_in_a_flat_world
Jigsaw tries leveraging 'Wisdom of Crowds'
[Jigsaw tasks their users] with providing information about private companies' revenues and employee counts, data essential to salespeople but extremely difficult to come by using traditi...
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http://news.com.com/Jigsaw%20tries%20leveraging%20Wisdom%20of%20Crowds/2100-1022_3-5835930.h...
Evidence-based policy and democracy
In politics, it is not enough for something simply to be the best option; people must reach agreement that it is the best option, a process which then becomes constitutive of that optionâ...
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-think_tank/policy_3056.jsp
Geeks in Toyland
Because of its popularity among gearheads already familiar with the open source model, Mindstorms was a perfect candidate for Lego's experiment with customer innovation. If NXT is a hit, ...
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,69946-1.html
Peer review not sacrosanct
One aim of establishment science is to prevent the emergence of new ideas; peer review seems to be a good way to accomplish this.
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/004512.asp
Bad Forecasts
Anything which is market-traded--including interest rates and exchange rates--is almost certain to be unforecastable. The simple reason: If there's a consensus forecast that everyone bel...
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2006/01/bad_forecasts.html?...
Who's afraid of the big bad yield curve?
The narrower the gap between long- and short-term rates, the slower growth we can usually expect to see.
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/whos_afraid_of.html
Web 2.0, Participation and E-democracy
If we are to go beyond mere consultation, where people are invited to give their views on a limited set of issues that are fed back into a process that remains largely opaque and inaccess...
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http://www.headshift.com/archives/002787.cfm
More on Limited Government
Despite their claims to the contrary, voters do want big government, at least for them. Get rid of all of your subsidies and tax breaks but keep mine; it's the quintessential prisoner's d...
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http://liberalorder.typepad.com/the_liberal_order/2006/02/the_following_l.html
Institutional Power Declining, Forrester Says
Individuals increasingly take cues from one another rather than from institutional sources like corporations, media outlets, religions, and political bodies.
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http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/03/institutional_p.html
Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas
There's a fine line between individual genius and know-it-all arrogance. [...] It's time to invent a less top-down approach to innovation, to make it everybody's business to come up with ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/business/yourmoney/26mgmt.html?ex=1301029200&en=0d90ed5116...
Put Your Money Where Your Theory Is
When theoretical speculations in the hard sciences repeatedly produce false predictions they are marginalized. We need to create just such a system for the social sciences.
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=030106E
Shouldn’t the Wisdom of Crowds lead to better politicians?
When we talk politics (at least in the U.S.), it’s always follow the leader, or follow the party. We’ve broken the game, and now the only way to win is to choose one of two sides.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/shouldnt-the-wisdom-of-crowds-lead-to-better-politicians
The Wisdom of Browse
We have to look beyond simplistic majority-rule popularity contests if we ever want to take on traditional editor-driven media. People are complicated, and we're going to need complicated...
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http://www.powazek.com/2006/04/000579.html