2- Transparency that is constructive?
Ensuring inclusiveness, social values and engagement in public-private cooperation, as well as preventing estrangement, that is the promise that wikiworx aims to deliver.
The "clouds but little rain.." [3] image sums up the challenge of turning into practical, sustainable activity at the front line where people at-risk live, eat and work:
The transparent, efficient and effective addressing of change, be it for commercial, non-profit or public-sector actors, must leverage a multi-level perspective [1] and societal architecture in country systems[2]:
3- Linked Open Content as Trust and Transparency Factor
In their book, North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) explain the difference between natural states and modern societies. Modern societies create open access to economic and political organizations, and by doing so they foster political and economic competition, and development.
In the modern society, the balance between open access resources and private property is a subtle one. For knowledge resources, this balance seems to be least understood. Also claims on land, sea and its use are a contentious area.
Vagueness regarding the claims on resources, be it power, land, knowledge, content or material, induces individual risk considerations that harm mutual trust and hinder development.
For what concerns knowledge resources, there is a recent WIPO study: Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain.
Content on public sector organisations, and content that is no longer protected by copyright is part of the content commons.
Further specifics on the ''co-creative'' use and maintenance of the linked open content in these three sections:
4- Partnership Models
For detailed suggestions on using systematized content commons in specific partnerships, see:
The sustainable maintenance of the content commons is a collective responsibility[4].
In the case of the vast content commons, the lack of systematization feeds poor awareness, slow accumulation, under-harvesting, especially by the poor and in developing countries but also in the rich countries. A more recent challenge is the vulnerability of Content that is Accurate and Reliable in an information eco-system in which 631 - Technology companies prefer social media algorithms that push Content that lacks Integrity as it benefits their profits.
The unequal access to content commons sustained by entrenched practices feeds estrangement between individuals and institutions, and indeed, it is a factor contributing to violence in case where people don't see alternatives for defending their cause, or are actively encouraged to be violent.
It also feeds wasteful debate[6], opportunistic publishing[5], draining those in need of scarce knowledge resources as they seek knowledge and content that is actionable in their livelihoods.
Systematized wikis will enable us to make partnerships yield more knowledge, prosperity and peace, locally and globally.
Your voluntary engagement will serve these purposes:
The wikiworx.info content commons wikis can be accessed and navigated via multiple means:
- start from the entry point that best fits your context of work, or from systematized content commons to understand the cognitive context and set-up of these wikis.
- move up in the texts hierarchy by using the breadcrumbs navigation that appears at the top of the page (below the navigation pane);
- use the top-bar drop-down menus to navigate to particular sections of any of the wikis;
- use the search button for finding paragraphs that use a certain term;
- use page-tags to find sections that cover specific keywords (so far page tags have been sparsely set only);
- switch to a topic area by selecting it in the side navigation menu.
- Multi-stakeholder initiatives must balance many stakeholders' perspectives on what is effective and fair, what is comprehensive and balanced.
- Each stakeholder has its own benefit-cost expectations, and by reasoning translates these into values and indicators to measure these.
- Critical issues emerge where stakeholder expectations are translated into conflicting clauses of statutes (see Statute Books for a growing picture of the legacy) or conflicting interests in initiatives (see Initiative Books for a growing picture of ongoing initiatives).
- For an open and transparent negotiation among stakeholders with equal rights it is KEY that the expectations by various stakeholders are TRACEABLE to values and indicators.
- For an effective implementation it is key that change proposals reflect the current baseline.
- By using the pdm-deliv as a communication channel for initiative content, such a traceability can be achieved alongside, or within multiple initiatives preparation and implementation.
- If the contents of any content commons component is insufficient or incomplete to support the communications for your initiative, then consider making maintenance requests to the maintenance organisation. If you are willing to help implementing approved maintenance requests, then join the wikiworx.info team.
- Use the Forum (see left-hand menu bar) or the discuss button under each wiki page. Per-page discussion supports posing questions or giving answers and arguments pro or contra any of a wiki-page's content.
- Standardized expression of benefit-cost expectations by the stakeholders in new initiatives will facilitate thorough discussion in the negotiation arena.
- Back and forth expansion, in-depth, and in-context, of justifications for either option or alternative, supported by shared and reused indicator profiles, builds trust and awareness, while exposing stakeholder assumptions, as well as resource and mechanism attributes and factor-dependencies that may harm the intended outcome for either party or constituency.
- To accept a sacrifice of own resources or claims for the public good, every citizen should in principle be capable to trust and (or) understand that all members of the group commit a comparable effort for the social benefit, and that the joined inputs by the members will yield the intended virtuous effects.
- For the effort citizens can commit to the causes of their governments, communication via books, reports, pamflets, newspapers, traditional websites,… no longer yield sufficient trust and understanding.
- Advocates of change, as listed at Actor Atlas must align their implementation and communication plans to restore the private trust in the public causes.
which will be instrumental in delivering your contribution to sustainable, equitable and capable public-private value constellations.