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Collaborative democracy - government with the people - is a new eyesight of governance in the digital age group. Wiki Administration points out how to convert the eyesight into fact. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can hook up the expertise of the numerous to the power of the few. Along the way, she reveals what it takes to innovate in government. Launched in 2007, Peer-to-Patent connects patent examiners to volunteer scientists and technologists via the net. Patent examiners have traditionally worked in secret, cut off from essential information and auto racing against the time to rule on lengthy, technical says. Peer-to-Patent broke this mold by creating internet of self-selecting citizen experts and channeling their knowledge and enthusiasm into forms that patent examiners can certainly use. Peer-to-Patent shows how policymakers can improve decision-making by harnessing networks to public establishments. By encouraging, coordinating, and structuring citizen involvement, technology can make government both more available and far better at dealing with today's complex social and economical problems. Wiki Administration identifies how this model can be employed in a multitude of settings and offers fundamental rethinking of effective governance and democratic legitimacy for the 21st hundred years. The booklet is printed by Brookings Establishment Press.
