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Wiki Government "Collaborative democracy--government with the people--is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the…
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"Collaborative democracy--government with the people--is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality.
These dedicated but overtaxed officials decide which of the million-plus patent applications currently in the pipeline to approve. In the process, 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 web. Their decisions help determine which start-up pioneers a new industry and which disappears without a trace.
Patent examiners have traditionally worked in secret, cut off from