Talk:Collaborative governance

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how will government pay employees if governance is collaborative? ....? Wikademia

Reputation. Karma points.... Note, this latter is a type of currency. And also, participation can be rewarding in itself if the system is designed correctly. Salaries are a rather Old Paradigm way of motivating participation, coarse at the very best. Marcos 07:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

But current systems still require $$ to pay the bills. How will the switch between these sorts of systems take place? Wikademia

A couple of answers:

1. In the short term: a currency exchange system that will reflect the comparative value within the network to the trust/value out in the physical world.
2. In the long run: Society organizes itself differently, centered around mutual trade. Physical locations reflective or more optimal configuration.

currency exchange.... so something like crowdsourcing? Wikademia

Hmm, I don't think crowdsourcing is the right analogy. I'm suggesting an actual exchange between karma and $ would occur. Something like that already occurs with online games, most notably Ultima Online which (accounting for the hours of game play to acquire or make important objects and auctioning said objects on eBay and such) has an effective GDP larger than some third world countries.

The right analogy here is probably the open company. — Ed Pastore 22:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I think something like loose associations of individuals working toward a common cause (with common assets) would occur. The Hebrew Kibbutz comes to mind -- self-contained societies governing themselves. Marcos 01:39, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

We're not at the scale of mass governments yet; more the governance of small communities. But in either regard, there could (possibly) still be regular bureaucratic employees. The collaborative governance model (currently) is primarily focused on the decision-making process. That is, a replacement for the board of directors of a nonprofit, or the legislature/council/board of a government body. — Ed Pastore 22:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)