Making Property Law Wiki Real

Slide 1: Making Property Law Wiki real

Slide 2: Property Law Wiki is for: • Citizens: access to law What are the laws? feedback about bureaucracy How do they really work • Students: education (procedures on the ground)? • NGO’s: policy study and How can we make policy review better? • Legislators: reform ideas • Economists: comparative analysis • Researchers: field work, analysis

Slide 3: Wiki’s let people share and work on large problems. Property Law Wiki encyclopedia What are the laws? “What is X?” How do they really work (procedures on the ground)? •7.3 million articles How can we make policy better? •252 languages

Slide 4: Problem scope & solution process 1. Capture the legal • 150 countries code online • 1 million pages of state & 2. Simplify into plain local code (with language significant redundancy) 3. Capture procedural • Procedural bureaucratic realities and costs “realities” undocumented 4. Suggest changes • 150m pages influencing $9.3 trillion in property= $62,000 per page *Crude estimate needs refining

Slide 5: Problem & Solution Process Explain Capture Reform “how does it “what does Formal law text work, cost “How can it be it simply “what is it?” time & $’s made better?” mean?” bureaucracy?” 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

Slide 6: Branching model & feedback Property Law wiki aims To record the cost and Constitution implications of upstream law and then suggest modifications for improvement Federal law Federal law Federal law State/local & village State/local law State/local law law Procedure & bureaucratic implementation Each page or section has a “why” which indicates the legal process driving the Procedure & subsequent action or requirement. Each bureaucratic implementation pages ask for a “simplified” explanation and a how can this be improved. Procedure & bureaucratic implementation

Slide 7: Level of engagement & Participants .05m 10. Social Growth Becomes exemplary community member 9. Personal growth Pursues excellence and maturity 8. Mastery 0.5m Develops high standards of quality performance 7. Competence Strives to become skillful in important activities 6. Challenge 1.0m Sets difficult but desirable tasks to accomplish 5. Generative Creates, builds, organizes, theorizes or otherwise produces 4. Analytical 5.0m Studies the setting and experience analytically 3. Exploratory Plays, experiments, explores and probes the setting 2. Spectator Level of experience visits site 10m 1. Stimulated See motives, site, movie & PR Co-opted form of Gibbons and Hopkins 1980 experiential learning

Slide 8: 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

Slide 9: Jimmy wales wikipedia Designers Foundations competition Cadastre Ck Pralahad institute Property World bank / Amazon Esther Duflo Law Wiki MIT partners* Nick Jeff Sachs Gogerty Founder Reuters Law schools Thomson Columbia etc. Westlaw Aquantive De soto ild razor fish *Targeted & tentative

Slide 10: 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

Slide 11: 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.

Slide 12: 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.

Slide 13: Actor information needs • How do I???? Key word search • What does it mean if? • What does the word ? Mean • Why is the procedure like this? Process map graphic • What does it cost to? Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 7 • How long does it take to? • Editing rights How do I share my story? Property • Who can help me to? law wiki • Who can help make this better? • What would improve this process? • What is best practice? In terms of cost and activity.

Slide 14: 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

Slide 15: 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