We've seen this before: "peer production is a way to produce goods and services that relies on self-organizing communities of individuals who come together to produce a shared outcome, i.e., the production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field." This book examines the application of peer production for public servcies. The key challenge is the tendency of existing systems to 'crowd out' certain forms of participation; parents, for example, can exercise only temporary and ad hoc roles in public education. This happens whether the service provider isadministered publicly or is contracted from private enterprise. Cooperative service production - or the 'third sector' - emphasizes peer production as the core of servcie provision, with public and private enterprises providing services at the margins.
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