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Publications

• Auer, S.; Braun-Thürmann, H.: Towards Bottom-Up, Stakeholder-Driven Research Funding – Open Source Funding, Open Peer Review. (Slides) In Peer Review Reviewed: The International Career of a Quality-control Instrument and New Challenges 24–25 April 2008, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin.
• Auer, S.: Endanwendergetriebene Open-source Softwareentwicklung mit Cofundos. In Bärwolff, Matthias and Gehring, Robert A. and Lutterbeck, Bernd, Eds. Open Source Jahrbuch 2008. Lehmanns Media.

Related Approaches

• Futarchy by Robin Hanson (cf. Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?) is a concept for governance by employing speculative markets.
• Pledgebank, Fundable, Change.com aim at integrating stakeholders and pooling resources with regard to charitable causes.
• Participatory budgeting was introduced and implemented for the first time in Porto Alegre (Brasil) in 1989. Within the Spendenparlaments (engl. donation parliament) in Hamburg citizens are enabled to vote which charitable projects will be supported with donations. Another example is the People's £50 Million Lottery Giveaway, an online voting about the distribution of £50 Million lottery revenues in Great Britain.

Other Related Initiatives

• The Open Knowledge Foundation is devoted to promoting and protecting open knowledge.
• Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled scientific research.
• Budapest Open Access Initiative promotes open scientific publishing.
• Alliance for Taxpayer Access supports open public access to taxpayer-funded research.