2018-08-31: "'The place to be if you care about building public services that work for YOU, your family, your friends, and your community (not the shareholders).'" -- WeOwnIt.org.uk/act-now/public-ownership-20-there-such-thing-society
2018-08-31: "'What Beginning Farmers Need Most in the Next Farm Bill: Land'" -- Food.Berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BFI-Beginning-Farmers-Policy-Brief.pdf
2018-08-31: CityRootsCLT.org >>The City Roots Community Land Trust vision is to strengthen the Rochester community by cultivating the perspective that land owned by the community can help make housing a human right and affordable for all. We are a collaborative of homeowners, renters, youth, community allies and partners.
2018-08-31: "'We are looking for organizations that share some or all aspects of a broadly inclusive "well-being" agenda, and exploring ways that their partial agreement and overlap can be bridged and interconnected through a kind of interdimensional network weaving. Let's find the points of common ground among thousands of organizations, and create ways to gracefully negotiate their differences in an enlightened spirit of co-creation.'" -- www.CharterForCoCreation.net
2018-08-31: Must start recording audio to practice the crowdfunding pitch.
2018-08-31: Thinking of "Aura" for the name of a restaurant [[think Rest-Aura-nt]] as a shared place to wash, eat, rest and work.
2018-08-30: DemocracyCollaborative.org/community-control-of-land-and-housing and DemocracyCollaborative.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/CommunityControlLandHousing.pdf
2018-08-30: Rethinking the name Health Assurance as Life Ensurance.
2018-08-30: FreeKnowledge.eu >>
2018-08-30: CitizenShift.info >>THIS IS THE #CITIZENSHIFT A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND EMBRACING THE EMERGING ERA OF THE CITIZEN
2018-08-30: FOPROP.org >>Living & working | Root & branch Forces & relations of production
2018-08-30: The term "Socialism" includes a variety of approaches to property ownership.
2018-08-29: Contemplating the trouble of representative governance.
2018-08-29: To buy property for product is to dereference money.
2018-08-27: Mikorizal.org >>We are developing software for transitioning to the next economy.
2018-08-27: Valueflo.ws >>Value Flows is a set of common vocabularies to describe flows of economic resources of all kinds within distributed economic ecosystems.
2018-08-23: Pizza robots: EKIM.fr
2018-08-23: IOO.COOP >>The internet is slipping out of ordinary users' control.
2018-08-23: Blog.Permaculture.org.uk/articles/building-cooperative-economy >>
2018-08-22: gun.io >>
2018-08-22: dock.io >>
2018-08-21: EcosystemRestorationCamps.org >>We envision a fully-functional, peaceful, abundant, biologically diverse Earth brought about through cooperative efforts for the ecological restoration of degraded lands.
2018-08-21: https://cni-coop.net/channel/csmadvocacy/?f=&mid=ae8704e3fe0a8767267115a75fa2149ac2aff05854beff1d6db6cc6875f7110d@cni-coop.net
2018-08-21: "'Super basic iOS app to browse open-source-ios-apps'" -- github.com/dkhamsing/osia
2018-08-21: Academia.edu/10252910/The_uneasy_transition_from_supply_chains_to_ecosystems_The_value-creation_value-capture_dilemma >>This paper uses the multidimensional definition of value – ecosystemic value – andemploys lifecycle theory to identify the different stages of evolution of value-creation and -captureprocesses in an ecosystem. Specifically, the aim of this paper is to show the uneasy transition fromsupply chains to ecosystems.
2018-08-21: KISSProject.eu >>"KISS: the Key Is Social Sustainability" aims to contribute in promoting the sustainability of the initiatives of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) between its current actors and those young people who want to enter the sector. One of the major challenges faced by associations, cooperatives and other initiatives of the SSE, as well as those young social entrepreneurs, is the high dependence of their initiatives from public subsidies. This lack of sustainability (economic, but also social, environmental, of labor and political) conditions and makes them more vulnerable.
2018-08-20: "'A New Anchor Mission
Community foundations
deploying all resources to
build community wealth'" -- https://community-wealth.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/ANewAnchorMission_FINAL3.pdf
2018-08-19:
Marjorie Kelly's Five Essential Patterns in Ownership Design:
"'
Living Purpose: creating the conditions for life.
Rooted Membership, with ownership held in human hands.
Mission-Controlled Governance, with control by those focused on social mission.
Stakeholder Finance, where capital becomes a friend rather than a master.
Ethical Networks, which offer collective support for social and ecological norms.
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2018-08-19: alice is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2018-08-19:
We can and must control our own governance in a direct and reciprocal manner.
Using
2018-08-18: "'PLANET is ... a vision which aims to illustrate some of the concepts and advantages of a collaborative, user owned and managed economic platform.'" -- Open.COOP/2017/01/10/planet-open-source-operating-system-collaborative-sustainable-economy
2018-08-16: The value proposition of the For Product business model might be thought of as "avoiding usury" in 3 ways:
Property: Land and tools required for production are secured with crowdfunding to avoid rent/mortgage/interest-bearing-debt.
Promises: Work required for production is secured with property-as-wage on a work-to-own basis,
Profit : Surplus product is sold above cost while part of that profit is treated as the payer's investment.
>> A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes -- https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0959652613008032/1-s2.0-S0959652613008032-main.pdf
"'
Business model innovations for sustainability are defined as:
Innovations that create significant positive and/or significantly
reduced negative impacts for the environment and/or society,
through changes in the way the organisation and its value-network
create, deliver value and capture value (i.e. create economic value)
or change their value propositions.
To tackle the pressing challenges of a sustainable future, innovations
need to introduce change at the core of the business
model to tackle unsustainability at its source rather than as an addon
to counter-act negative outcomes of business. The level of
ambition of business model innovations needs to be high and
focused on maximising societal and environmental benefits, rather
than economic gain only. Business model innovations for sustainability
may not be economically viable at the start (e.g. as in the
time when the first hybrid car was introduced) but may become so
in the future due to regulatory or other changes. Schaltegger et al.
(2012) propose a typology of defensive, accommodative, and proactive
business model innovations. Defensive strategies (adjustment)
are incremental business model adjustments to protect
current business models focussing on risk and cost reduction often
driven by the need for compliance; accommodative strategies
(improvement, integration) are modifications of internal processes
and include some consideration of environmental or social objectives
(e.g. environmental protection), whereas proactive strategies
(full integration) concern the redesign of the core business logic of
the firm for sustainable development. Although all business model
innovations that deliver sustainability are welcomed, proactive
innovation strategies appear most impactful.
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2018-08-10:
People need productive assets for direct use value, which they do not share with others, such as personal effects
But sharing property can increase production quantity, quality and complexity.
Market production is for exchange value.
The basis of the conflict between shareholders and consumers is the quest for profit.
The original purpose of Free Software is use value.
Free Software lets owners charge exchange value, but limits user subjugation by requiring users gain access to the virtual means of production for that software.
Mapping this into the physical realm
2018-08-10: Imagine a computer OS which uses a 'market' approach to Inter-Process Communication (IPC). So instead of just sharing of memory, each process would rent access
2018-08-09: The crowd controls user owned production.
2018-08-09: ~/bin/iphone.connect
2018-08-08: TownCoin may be a better name. SpaceCoin, CubeCoin.
2018-08-08: CityFarmer.info
2018-08-08: opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/how-new-board-game-exposes-authoritarianism-s-folly
2018-08-08: Bought refurbished iPhone SE
2018-08-08: TransformTheSystem.net
2018-08-07: OneHourOneLife.com A survival game from Jason Rohrer
No DRM
No middle-person
Cross-platform
Open Source
2018-08-07: New name for The Game: StateCraft
2018-08-06: YouTube.com/watch?v=XnIFlD5Zvs8 >>
>> paying attention is the eye of Horus at the top of the pyramid
>> iterative at the edge of chaos
2018-08-05: Listening to YouTube.com/watch?v=6sUtOOOVcqw >>Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller made the first documentary about Jordan Peterson in January, since then he has become one of the polarising public figures in the world, especially to those on the left of the political spectrum.
2018-08-05: Answering Quora.com/How-do-we-design-and-build-a-new-political-economy-that-serves-all-people-as-dignified-fluidly-intelligent-beings-with-multiple-potentials-instead-of-narrowly-specialized-cogs-in-a-machine-which-serves-the-few
2018-08-04: ReinventingOrganizationsWiki.com
2018-08-03: Supermarkt-Berlin.net/en
2018-08-03: Purpose-Economy.org/en >>Purpose-Companies serve their employees and customers. Profits are primarily reinvested and serve the purpose of the company. Responsibility lies with the people and inside the organisation. Purpose-Companies work for purpose maximisation rather than shareholder-value maximisation.
2018-08-03: Wiki.P2PFoundation.net/Steward_Ownership >>* What are profits for then?
>>>CM: Profits are there to provide the incentives for those who put up the capital for the business to do so, it is the reward for doing so. But just as those who work for the company should be rewarded for doing so. That does not make the maximization of profits the objective of the company. The objective of the company is to deliver things that will benefit to others and just in the process to make profits.
2018-08-03: Tribute.coop
"'Equity for the community.
Tribute helps organizations build and strengthen their network of contributors. We enable them to design and manage a customized reward system based on economic incentives and transparency.
Modern organizations are outgrowing traditional firms by opening up to contributors beyond their corporate framework.
Instead of relying on a trained but limited workforce, they are leveraging external crowds to design, build and market their services, making them more efficient, agile and adaptable to change.
But as talented individuals increasingly choose to work independently, the competition for quality services begins to rise.
The Challenge
INCENTIVIZING CONTRIBUTORS LONG-TERM
If organizations want to attract and retain talented individuals they must treat them as first-class citizens. However, currently there are no long-term mechanisms in place to reward these external stakeholders for their effort.
Businesses distribute economic value to shareholders, executives and employees, but there is no system to account for the value created by external stakeholders.
As a result independent contributors often get disappointed, mistrustful, and adverse towards organizations.
The Solution
BUILD TRUST WITH TRANSPARENCY
Tribute helps organizations attract and maintain a strong community of contributors through value accounting and economic incentives. Together with traditional monetary compensation, organizations can use Tribute to create their own contributive tokens in order to reward contributions.
Contributive tokens can be used to represent future payments at an early stage of a business, include contributors in decision-making processes, distribute shares of future profits, and more.
Mint Your Tokens
Issuing your own tokens allows you to track the value created by your community and reward individuals for their contributions.
Facilitate and Scale Coordination
Fire up activities offered to your community. Define how to reward them, have them assigned to contributors and approve them once delivered.
Tribute is an open, censorship-free and decentralized network. Our match-making services are open for everyone and will always remain free.
Find The Right Resources At No Cost
Foster Cooperation And Engagement
Encourage interpersonal interactions, team cooperation, and a common culture through monetary and reputational incentives.
Reap the Benefits of Programmable Equity
Tokens offer many more possibilities than traditional equity. Create customized incentive schemes that meet your contributors' expectations.
Embed Into Your App
Developers can use our APIs to embed token-based incentives directly in their app or social media campaigns.
WHO CAN USE TRIBUTE?
About Us
A DECENTRALIZED NETWORK BUILT AS A COMMONS
Open
Governance
Whether core team and contributors building Tribute, organizations using it, advisors guiding it or funding investors, our governance system allows every stakeholder to participate in key decisions that affect the network.
Inclusive
Business Model
To ensure that businesses pay proportionately to the value they receive and that no one is excluded for economic reasons, each organization pays Tribute with their own
contributive tokens.
Engineered
as a Commons
Tribute is designed for sharing more value than it captures. The code is open source and most of the profits are re-invested in the network and relevant causes selected by governing stakeholders.
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