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A good article, providing detailed description of the Commons sourcing model.
The author suggests that financial meltdown actually helps peer production and social networks.
It is a good read challenging the reader to remove traditional boundaries and constraints to open up the technology innovation process to creative amateurs.
An insightful synopsis of of p2p theory and the behavioral drivers of peer production.
From a full read of this article at it's source you will find a good set of questions regarding the present and future of peer production.
This article talks about open source can lead to innovation and provides examples on how open source has lead to some of the greatest innovations.
The article differentiates between corporate and civil peer production provide examples that contrast the alternatives.
A good read for it describes how peer production can help communities grow.
It's an interesting debate on crowdsourcing vs. smartsourcing. It argues that it depends on the objectives of the activity and the desired result as to whether crowdsourcing should be the way...
Very interesting take on banking services by Scred, for communities (global/virtual), which do away with issues of traditional banking such as bureaucracy, high capital requirement, regulations etc.
This research draws on extensive interviews with some of the world’s leading thinkers on the social, economic and legal aspects of user-led innovation and explores how it is affecting...
"My open-source approach directly addresses the transparency concern. In the Public Sector Credit Framework, the rating is produced by a quantitative model that can take into account...
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