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Communities

Our projects aim providing tools and platforms useful to communities of people; but which communities are we talking about?

For a given co-modelling project, we distinguish between different communities, depending on their relation to the object of study:

  • participants, who contribute to input or edit information
  • controllers, those who decide the model parameters and rules
  • developers, who contribute to making the software
  • wider community of people concerned with the object of study

In general, participants, controllers and developers are biased with respect to the wider community. The representativity of the co-modelling communities increases when this bias reduces. When controllers contain all participants, then the project can be deemed co-managed by them.

Different issues within a project might well concern multiple communities of people. In those case, extra care is needed for federating processes and ensuring representativity across different issues and projects.