Books

The following are links to selected books on collaboration, open solutions, and innovation relevent to 'Open' Government and our citizens:

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
Architecture of Open Source Applications - Vol. 1 & 2
The Cathedral & The Bazaar
Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source Business Strategy
MIT Books - Business, Management & Innovation
Open Business Models
Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, & Participation
Open Health IT Solutions for the Public & Private Sectors
Open Innovation Revolution
Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business
The Open Source Alternative
Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Revolution
Open Source and Economic Development
An Open World: Stories From the Open Source Community
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software
The Power of Open
Producing Open Source Software
Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing
Wikinomics: How Mass CollaborationChanges Everything
Wiki Government
The Zero Marginal Cost Society

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Collaboration & Open Communities

"Creating a community around software is what makes open source software work so well. Simply applying an open source software license to a piece of code will not make it more useful, more responsive, or more secure. An open source software license will, however, allow a community of developers to collect around a shared set of problems, and work together on the solution." In contrast to many symbolic efforts to improve collaboration in a particular community, open source is more effective because it is organized around useful work. - Read "Communities Drive Open Source Solutions"