Making Property Law Wiki

Making Property Law Wiki real Property Law Wiki is for: •Citizens: access to law feedback about bureaucracy What are the laws? How do they really work (procedures on the ground)? How can we make policy better? •Students: education •NGO’s: policy study and review •Legislators: reform ideas •Economists: comparative analysis •Researchers: field work, analysis Wiki’s let people share and work on large problems. Property Law Wiki encyclopedia “What is X?” •7.3 million articles •252 languages What are the laws? How do they really work (procedures on the ground)? How can we make policy better? Problem scope & solution process • 150 countries • 1 million pages of state & local code (with significant redundancy) • Procedural bureaucratic “realities” undocumented • 150m pages influencing $9.3 trillion in property= $62,000 per page *Crude estimate needs refining 1. Capture the legal code online 2. Simplify into plain language 3. Capture procedural realities and costs 4. Suggest changes Problem & Solution Capture Formal law text “what is it?” Explain “what does it simply mean?” Process “how does it work, cost time & $’s bureaucracy?” Reform “How can it be made better?” Cultural and political context • +150 countries & territories* • +1 million pages of state & local code/procedure & forms per country (with significant redundancy)*= 50m pages required* • Procedural bureaucratic realities on the ground will also be captured *estimate Branching model & feedback Constitution Federal law Federal law Federal law Property Law wiki aims To record the cost and implications of upstream law and then suggest modifications for improvement State/local law State/local law State/local & village law Each page or section has a “why” which indicates the legal process driving the subsequent action or requirement. Each pages ask for a “simplified” explanation and a how can this be improved. Procedure & bureaucratic implementation Procedure & bureaucratic implementation Procedure & bureaucratic implementation Level of engagement & Participants 10. Social Growth Becomes exemplary community member .05m 0.5m 9. Personal growth Pursues excellence and maturity 8. Mastery Develops high standards of quality performance 7. Competence Strives to become skillful in important activities 6. Challenge Sets difficult but desirable tasks to accomplish 5. Generative Creates, builds, organizes, theorizes or otherwise produces 1.0m 5.0m 10m 4. Analytical Studies the setting and experience analytically 3. Exploratory Plays, experiments, explores and probes the setting 2. Spectator Level of experience visits site 1. Stimulated See motives, site, movie & PR Co-opted form of Gibbons and Hopkins 1980 experiential learning Technology Feature Benefit S3:Hardware lease Amazon Scales $0.10/hour Linux cluster distribution Cheap well understood Apache servers Free well understood MySQL databases Free scalable Wiki (pbwiki?) Easy to use Google (adsense to start) 5 minutes implementation Jimmy wales wikipedia Designers competition Foundations Cadastre institute Ck Pralahad World bank / Esther Duflo MIT Property Law Wiki partners* Amazon Nick Gogerty Founder Jeff Sachs Reuters Thomson Westlaw Aquantive razor fish De soto ild Law schools Columbia etc. *Targeted & tentative Property Law Wiki outputs: • PR & Goodwill for sponsors and partners • Law in simple language (tutorial level explanations) • Procedural explanations (self updating) • Examples for reform and new legislative and procdural initiatives • Resource for comparitive legal studies • $ and sponsorship relationships • More informed and participative citizenry • Non profit teaching & education charity • Worlds largest “law library” online Use Cases & designs Use cases, stated simply, allow description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful" [1]. Each use case provides one or more scenarios that convey how the system should interact with the users called actors to achieve a specific business goal or function. Use case actors may be end users or other systems. Use cases typically avoid technical jargon, preferring instead the language of the end user or domain expert. Use cases are often coauthored by business analysts and end users. Participants: Actors Citizens: have multiple agenda’s but most are just seeking information about how to perform various functions or get information about a process. Researcher: May want to make different comparisons and research various aspects of the law and how “actors” engage with the law across sector, economies and geographies. NGO Field worker / investigator: May want to capture impacts in the field, record what is going on in local areas in formal and informal laws. seeking stories from the field and opportunities to capture popular opinion. law makers: may be seeking inputs for reform or better understanding of populist thoughts and current stresses in the system Law Student / lawyer: interested in either research, study of laws or discovering out of sync records. Actor information needs • • How do I???? What does it mean if? Key word search • • • • • • • • • What does the word ? Mean Why is the procedure like this? What does it cost to? How long does it take to? How do I share my story? Who can help me to? Who can help make this better? What would improve this process? What is best practice? In terms of cost and activity. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Process map graphic Editing rights Property law wiki Constraints tools to help • Auto ip country assignment • Auto search keyword • Meta tagging: key words, legals, precedent • Authorship and the rest • Key components in a process “linking” for tracking and comparison • Translations: languages and branching Long term goals Quantitative goals • Improve property formalization 10%. Convert 10% of extra legal property=$900billion in recognized assets • Improve annual taxable revenues for poorest countries $9billion/year (1% annual tax on property) Qualitative Goals • Improve safety and security for extra legal property holders • • • • • • Improved procedures for current legal property holders Improved property transfer market (economic efficiencies) Improved quality of life via security and more efficient use of capital and capital stock investments in the developing world Improve national security and stability in various countries via more participatory legal and civilian environment Improved judicial policy and procedures due to increased transparency and understanding of policy improved Developing countries taking a greater role in their own development in “soft” infrastructure