modeling shares of benefits (ex. electricity in a grid, trips on common transit etc.)

Hello,

Long time silence in our group but lets try to bring some life here again :D
I plan on participating in http://okfestival.org (Open Knowledge Festival) and discuss with people over there among others topic which I refer to as polyeconomy, and see directly related to what I would like to work on with you in this group.

Very short comment on what I refer to as 'shared benefit' systems you can find here:
http://polyeconomy.info/systems/#shared-benefit

I've just spoken with Melvin about using http://webcredits.org which he works on for that purpose. But maybe I shouldn't start with implementation details?...

Nowadays many people who contribute to providing electricity in grids and running common transit, choose to accept money for it and leave granting access to those resources to someone else. I would like to help developing technology which can empower people to decide who they would like to grant access to resources they have contributed to make available.

In our example cases, people who make contributions to providing electricity in to certain grid, could hold certain shares of it and distribute them to whoever they want however their like. Similar with common transit access, contributors could have their pools to share with others.

I believe it can give people more personal freedom, distribute decision on granting access among all contributors, crate stronger community bounds among people and greater diversity in ways of gaining access to resources (nowadays IMO very sadly dominated by commerce)

In web credits I see mention of IOU "i owe you" but in this case I would look at it more as "access granting tokens" or "shares of collectively owned resources"

Looking at: http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/wiki/Web_Credits#JSON_Messaging_Format
i would look in direction:

{
...
"source": "https://greenpower.coop",
"signatures": [],
"destination": "https://conciouscontributor.name",
"resource": {
"type": "http://dbpedia.org/page/Electricity",
"grid": "http://www.geni.org",
"amount": "100",
"unit": "http://dbpedia.org/page/Kilowatt_hour",
},
...
}

or

{
...
"source": "https://bvg.de",
"signatures": [],
"destination": "https://conciouscontributor.name",
"resource": {
"type": "http://dbpedia.org/page/Public_transport",
"agency": "https://bvg.de",
"amount": "20",
"unit": "http://fake.me/Daily_pass"
},
...
}

What do you think?
:)
☮ elf Pavlik ☮

Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:33:01 UTC