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Part one - Collaborative Democracy and the Changing Nature of Expertise Chapter one: Peer-to-Patent: A Modest Proposal -- The Modest Proposal Takes Off -- Implications for the Future: From Wikipedia to Wikilaw -- The Core Idea -- Overview of the Book Chapter two: The Single Point of Failure -- The Closed Model of Decisionmaking -- New Technologies and Civic Life -- Participatory Democratic Theory in the Age of Networks -- Challenges for Collaborative Democracy -- Part two - Peer-to-Patent and the Patent Challenge Chapter three - Patents and the Information Deficit -- The Why of Patents -- Challenges of Patent Examination -- Patent Examination Today -- Consequences: The Crab Is Traveling Backward -- What’s at Stake? Chapter four - Designing for Collaborative Democracy -- Visual Deliberation -- How Peer-to-Patent Works -- Reflecting the Work of the Group Back to Itself -- Granularity, Groups, and Reputation -- Getting Everyone on Board -- The Design Process -- Early Results Part three - Thinking in Wiki Chapter five - Social Life of Information -- Beyond Transparency -- Beyond Crowdsourcing -- Bringing Experts and Expertise Together -- Space, Place, Groups, and Information -- Linking Information and Action -- Information Transparency -- Building toward Collaboration Chapter six - History of Citizen Participation -- Failure of Public Consultation -- Government Access to Information -- The Internet Age and Participatory Practices -- Imagine the Alternative: Poking Our Way to Participation Chapter seven - Citizen Participation in a Collaborative Democracy -- Beyond Peer-to-Patent: Improving Consultation ---- Beyond Notice and Comment -- Organizing for Innovation -- The Networked CTO -- Collaborative Governance iLabs Chapter eight - Lessons Learned -- Ask the Right Questions -- Ask the Right People -- Design the Process for the Desired End -- Design for Groups, Not Individuals -- Use the Screen to Show the Group Back to Itself -- Divide Work into Roles and Tasks -- Harness the Power of Reputation -- Make Policies, Not Websites -- Pilot New Ideas -- Focus on Outcomes, Not Inputs -- The Bigger Picture: Redesigning Governance -- East Coast Code and West Coast Code -- Power and Collaborative Democracy

"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