Making Property Law Wiki

real

Property Law Wiki is for:

What are the laws?

How do they really work (procedures on the ground)?

How can we make policy better?

•Citizens: access to law feedback about bureaucracy

•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.

encyclopedia

“What is X?”

•7.3 million articles

•252 languages

Property Law Wiki

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

1. Capture the legal code online

2. Simplify into plain language

3. Capture procedural realities and costs

4. Suggest changes

*Crude estimate needs refining

Reform“How can it be made better?”

Process“how does it

work, cost time & $’s

bureaucracy?”

Explain “what does

it simply mean?”

CaptureFormal law text

“what is it?”

Problem & Solution

• +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

Cultural and political context

Branching model & feedback

Constitution

Federal law Federal law Federal law

State/local law State/local lawState/local & village law

Procedure & bureaucratic

implementation

Procedure & bureaucratic

implementation

Procedure & bureaucratic

implementation

Property Law wiki aimsTo record the cost and implications of upstream law and then suggest modifications for improvement

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.

Level of engagement & Participants 10. Social GrowthBecomes exemplary community member

9. Personal growthPursues excellence and maturity

8. MasteryDevelops high standards of quality performance

7. CompetenceStrives to become skillful in important activities

6. ChallengeSets difficult but desirable tasks to accomplish

5. GenerativeCreates, builds, organizes, theorizes or otherwise produces

4. AnalyticalStudies the setting and experience analytically

3. ExploratoryPlays, experiments, explores and probes the setting

2. SpectatorLevel of experience visits site

1. StimulatedSee motives, site, movie & PR

Co-opted form of Gibbons and Hopkins 1980 experiential learning

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Technology

Feature

S3:Hardware lease Amazon

Linux cluster distribution

Apache servers

MySQL databases

Wiki (pbwiki?)

Google (adsense to start)

Benefit

Scales $0.10/hour

Cheap well understood

Free well understood

Free scalable

Easy to use

5 minutes implementation

Designerscompetition

Cadastre institute

World bank /Esther Duflo

MIT

Nick GogertyFounder

Reuters Thomson Westlaw

Aquantive razor fish

De soto ild

Law schools Columbia etc.

Jeff Sachs

Amazon

Ck Pralahad

Foundations

Jimmy wales wikipedia

Property Law Wiki partners*

*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 co-authored by business analysts and end users.

Participants: ActorsCitizens: 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?

• 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.

Key word search

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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 goalsQuantitative 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