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WIKIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
WIKIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Suffr: democratic control of computing infrastructure
Suffr uses Wiki to facilitate corporate governance. Suffr allows a group's members to administer a computer system and its information resources collectively. Categories and ...
Kirk Zurell
NSDI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Democratizing Content Publication with Coral
CoralCDN is a peer-to-peer content distribution network that allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a cheap broad...
Michael J. Freedman, Eric Freudenthal, David Mazi&...
IADIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
E-Democracy: Internet Voting
Voting via the Internet is part of electronic government and electronic democracy. However, there are many obstacles which have to be overcome, especially legal restrictions have ...
Guido Schryen
JCHE
2010
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13 years 3 days ago
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their aca...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau