DISQUS

Luis · 1 year ago

I've yet to see a wiki that allows for collaboration on facts and then functional/useful disagreement on interpretation of the facts. If someone could whip such a thing up (perhaps working off git or other recent advances in distributed development tools) it'd be very useful.

Michael Santorelli · 1 year ago

Beth Noveck is prolific re all things wiki. When it comes to using wikis for regulation, I would suggest reading Noveck's article on e-rulemaking - "The Electronic Revolution in Rulemaking," 53 EMORY L. J. 1 (2004). In terms of turning this into a practical, real world model, Noveck has spearheaded a number of software projects related to policy collaboration. Noveck, who runs the Institute for Information Law & Policy here at New York Law School, works with students, faculty members and others on solution-oriented, collaborative projects. These projects are housed at the Institute's "Do tank" - http://dotank.nyls.edu/. Of particular interest here would be the "policy wiki" and "policy evolver".

FutureMelbourne · 1 year ago

Hi there,

Couldn't help but wonder whether you'd heard of our Future Melbourne wiki, the City of Melbourne's collaborative website designed to facilitate the development of the city's next 10 year strategic plan.

Our public consultation period is scheduled to run until 14 June, 2008. During this time, anybody, anywhere in the world can logon to read, discuss or even directly edit the content of the draft city plan.

As far as we can tell, this is the first time that a local government has used wiki technology on this scale to enable anyone to engage directly with a city plan.

Discussion pages sit behind every topic in the wiki and we encourage rigorous debate. An integrated Groups function enables those with similar interests to co-ordinate their activities. A creative Future Scenarios section encourages people to collaboratively edit, discuss or create their own creative visions of the future.

As it seems we're heading in the general direction that your post appears to advocate, we'd love if you could drop us a visit and let us know what you think. Would love to have the calibre of discussion above applied to the Future Melbourne wiki!

Thanks again for a thoroughly engaging read.

Dale
Future Melbourne Team
www.futureme.com.au

Barry · 1 year ago

When it comes to using wikis for regulation, I would suggest reading Noveck's article on e-rulemaking - "The Electronic Revolution in Rulemaking," 53 EMORY L. J. 1 (2004). In terms of turning this into a practical, real world model, Noveck has spearheaded a number of software projects related to policy collaboration. Noveck, who runs the Institute for Information Law & Policy here at New York Law School, works with students, faculty members and others on solution-oriented, collaborative projects.