Statist Collaborative Production
Mathieu O'Neil:
"So far, we have discussed two forms of collaborative production which relatively tend to the horizontal organization (non-capitalist collaborative production and the mixed one) and one form in which a particular kind of agent centralizes the power over the reticular collaborative process (capitalist collaborative production). Nevertheless, an organizational scheme as the latter not necessarily ought to be commanded by a commercial firm. The main candidate to play this non-commercial centralization role is the State.
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A first interesting case is Peer to Patent, a website which cooperates with the U.S. Patent office (USPTO)."
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The second example is British, related to the health system and extremely easy. PatientOpinion.org. is a website which allows to produce collaboratively opinions about different hospitals, health centers, hospices and doctors in the United Kingdom and in the National Health System (NHS). Here again, we face a collaborative production process in which the platform and some key data are managed by the state or an institution which depends on it. Nevertheless, unlike Peer to Patent, in Patient Opinion producers are actually consumers.
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Summarizing, in order to conceptualize the ideal type of State collaborative production, the features of the different given examples have to be abstracted. In spite of being a poorly developed form yet, it seems reasonable to assume that it might grow in the immediate future. There are two productive agents here: above-mentioned producers / users and state agents who operate the centralized platform. Although companies might be part of the group of producers, that is not a norm in this form. The decisive factor here is that, ultimately, regulation of information flows and, more specifically, the possibility of using them as critical inputs for their own production process, is in the hand of state institutions -which could be municipal, regional, national or international." (http://cspp.oekonux.org/scientific-committee/latest-submissions/regular-issue-p2p-theory/Collaborative%20production.pdf/at_download/file)
Source
2010 submission to the CSPP journal: [http://cspp.oekonux.org/scientific-committee/latest-submissions/regular-issue-p2p-theory/Collaborative%20production.pdf/at_download/file)
More Information
- Collaborative Production, with typology of 3 other modalities