Law in Contemporary Society

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BottomUpIdea 9 - 05 Mar 2009 - Main.GavinSnyder
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 What if the federal government were to award some amount of money (say $10 or $25 million) annually to the best social programs proposed through a public wiki website? With money clearly dedicated, a well-designed website, and thought-out rules and criteria for evaluation, I think the wiki would attract lots of attention and effort.

One of Obama’s change messages is that solutions have to come from the bottom up. He wants the general public to be more involved in government and points to the internet as a means. The wiki format would be a good way to deliver. With billions doled out to corporations and public works stimulus, this could provide politically powerful balance and unique impact.

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 -- MichaelDreibelbis - 04 Mar 2009
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One problem that I can see with crowdsourcing in the political sphere is that political ideologies would drive a wedge into the unity of purpose needed for collaboration. For example, crowdsourcing of legislation drafting through a wiki would be problematic because of edit wars by political factions. And if the format is a prize competition as in Greg's original example, who picks the winner? A flac from the ruling party?

Isn't voting the original form of crowdsourcing? I'll shut up now; I've never taken a political science course in my life...

-- GavinSnyder - 05 Mar 2009

 
 
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