(Direct link to the paper in pdf)
Or as my colleague Jo Twist @ BBC is putting it, “could the eBay trust model be adapted to help foster real, localised, online communities?”.
Looks like an interesting paper, and well worth a read.
(I would also like take the oppotunity to plug the great work Tim Levell and co are doing over at BBC iCan – which for those who don’t know is the beginnings of this very concept.)