Issues in Developing a G/Local Knowledge Network for Transport Reform Utilising Appropedia

We discuss and reflect on various aspects of using an online, Wiki-based platform - Appropedia - as part of an Action Research project into transport informatics software in civil society organisations. We first present a brief history of and introduction to Appropedia, including a comparison with its much-larger 'cousin', Wikipedia - and a description of the way the site was used as part of the transport informatics Action Research project. We then reflect on and discuss several of the key issues and possible lessons arising from this work both from the perspective of the potential of online public knowledge-commons in Action Research, and also whether Appropedia could in future more explicitly cater for processes of deliberative democracy as well as socio-technical collaboration.

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