Inspiration

• Knowledge Aggregation and Web-Based Collaboration
  • The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
  • The Wikipedia — simple tools, open content, open collaboration
    • (also of interest: Jon Udell's 8-minute "screencast" about the a single Wikipedia page)
  • The Iowa Electronic Market — predictive markets
  • The GlobalGiving 2005 Marketplace — web-based collaborative philanthropy
• Openness and Transparency
  • The Transparent Society by David Brin
  • The Creative Commons — open content and open publication
  • The "Open Process" culture developing on some wikis and open source projects
    • The Zope Fishbowl Process
    • The Meatball wiki page on Open Process
• Triage and Cost-Benefit Philanthropy
  • The Copenhagen Consensus and the book Global Crises, Global Solutions
  • The World Bank's cost-benefit analysis of work on their projects — PENDING: find web page
  • The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
• Structured Content
  • Chandler — item-level addressing, item sharing, item categorization
  • Lotus Improv — structured spreadsheets, pivot tables
  • The del.icio.us site — collaborative categorization