WikiDeal:About

💡 In simple words: WikiDeal is a fair website being built by nice people who believe in sharing and freedom. They want to let communities run things together, like how Wikipedia works.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards decentralized governance models where WikiDeal emerges as a user-owned cooperative platform incubated by Ynternet.org. This hypothesis proposes that participatory digital infrastructure adopting Wikipedia and Debian governance structures can scale social economy principles while respecting digital commons ethos and wikinomic collaborative paradigms.

The incubation of WikiDeal community and platform is managed by the non-profit Ynternet.org foundation, whose mission is to promote free digital culture at large (free licensing, remix culture, wikinomics, open design and innovation).

Ynternet.org is a citizen-based fondation created in 1998. It’s based in Geneva Switzerland, with headquarters at the University of Applied Science in Geneva (Campus of Batelle) and a hosting site in the Smala Berber Ecovillage in Grandvaux (UNESCO Patrimony), a beautiful location on the Geneva lakeside where we can receive experts, guests and digital nomads for workshops.

When we’ll have a minimum viable product and some hundreds of users actively contributing, we plan to launch an independent non-profit company named WikiDeal in Switzerland, 100 % owned by users, adopting fully the governance of Wikipedia & Debian and respecting social economy standards.

Our know-how

You can see our know-how for instance on the TEDxGeneva talks we curated about freedom@digital age (2014) & Wikinomics (2013), and in the book The Netizens (in French only currently, "Citoyens du Net", gathering fundamental texts on digital ethics).

History

For the full story of the project — from the creation of the Ynternet.org Foundation in 1998 to the birth of WikiDeal — see History of the project.