[Chapter-delegates] Ward Cunningham on identity: to deserve my respect because I know something about somebody

[Marcin Cieslak]

Ward Cunningham, the inventor of a wiki, said something
on trust and identity in his recent Dr. Dobb's interview:

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240000393

  Cunningham: I think that the thing I did right there
  was respect the people who would come that I didn't
  even know, who had no right to deserve my respect
  because I know nothing about them. But I would say,
  "Come on in and I'll trust you to contribute in
  good faith and to make your words a gift to this
  community." And we did. It was magical. I tell you I
  felt so good everyday. (...)

  (...) What we really did was say was the command and
  control hierarchical communications that we had to
  use in organizations wasn't necessary anymore. In
  fact, it was an impediment. It wasn't that it
  couldn't work. It was that it was unnecessary. And
  I think the reason why the wiki is popular is
  because it's the first medium that disregarded that
  hierarchy. And it allowed people to contribute
  based on their own understanding of what was
  valuable. And that has grown up with an understanding
  in organizational theory that you have to work that
  way. 


//Marcin