TY  - BOOK
AU  - Noveck,Beth Simone
TI  - Wiki government: how technology can make government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more powerful 
SN  - 9780815705109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JK 1764 N937w 2009
U1  - 320.9730285/675 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - United States
KW  - ParticipaciÃ³n polÃ­tica
KW  - Innovaciones tecnolÃ³gicas
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Wikis (Computer science)
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Wikis (InformÃ¡tica)
KW  - Aspectos polÃ­ticos
KW  - Patent practice
KW  - Case studies
KW  - PrÃ¡ctica de patentes
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - PolÃ­tica y gobierno
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index; Preface
Acknowledgments
Collaborative democracy and the changing nature of expertise
Peer-to-patent : a modest proposal
The single point of failure
Peer-to-patent and the patent challenge
Patents and the information deficit
Designing for collaborative democracy
Thinking in wiki
Social life of information
History of citizen participation
Citizen participation in a collaborative democracy
Lessons learned
N2  - "In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, examines the Peer-to-Patent project. Discusses its design challenges faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise. Explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to help government work in more open, participatory ways"--Provided by publisher
ER  -