Peer production
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See also: Commons-based peer production
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Peer production (also known by the term mass collaboration) is a new way of producing goods and services that relies on self-organizing communities of individuals who come together to produce a shared outcome. In these communities the efforts of a large number of people is coordinated creating meaningful projects. Common examples are Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia and Linux, a computer operating system.
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[edit] External links
- TED: Ideas worth spreading - Yochai Benkler introduces peer production.
