Documentation on Open Collaboration

collection of definitions and examples

collaboration sites

collaboration sites, social networking tools, idea depositories, etc.

collective authoring

the best known example is:

http://www.wikipedia.org/

collective decision making

examples and definitions

Us Now - a documentary about mass collaboration

this documentary introduces a number of projects (the majority functioning thanks over the web) that evolve around mass collaboration. there is everything from collective decision making to resource sharing, but since the all over focus of the film seems to be on democratic/decision making aspects, i put it in this section

here is the direct link:

http://www.vimeo.com/4489849