Re: I have interest in this CG

Hi Luana, 

An overdue update for everyone perhaps: yes, this is active and I intend to schedule some conversations in the near future. 

The past few months have seen an increase in effort as my own related projects all come to a milestone, and I want to ensure the meetings create a sustainable momentum.

Michiel summarized my own thoughts perfectly, but I’d be welcome to other ideas too on what they want to see from this group. 

E-commerce, for example, is ripe for improvements in interoperability and standardization with so many very different platforms. I would like to remove the complexity in building the tooling and connections between projects. 

> On 13. Nov 2020, at 11.46, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote:
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> Cool! I see https://interscity.org/about/ is about a variety of topics related to smart cities. I didn't find the one specifically about e-commerce, is there a specific page about that? Or a page about it at your university's website?
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> I can't speak for the other CG members, but I myself work on https://ledgerloops.com and https://webmonetization.org, and my hope for federated commerce is that we can coordinate trade between buyers and sellers in a more peer-to-peer way than how most trade currently occurs, i.e. settled against anonymized currencies, which are backed by centralized credit rating agencies and ultimately national armies).
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> A while ago, I wrote a blog post about network ledger technology that my interest you:
> https://michielbdejong.com/blog/21.html
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> Cheers,
> Michiel
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>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:54 AM Luana Nascimento <lluana13@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
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>> My name is Luana and I’m studying federated decentralised e-commerces as part of a project in my university, and I found your CG. I would like to know more about it: is this group currently active? And what exactly are you planning to develop as result of this initiative? Depending on the answers I can fit some contributions as part of my project or maybe utilize some of your work.
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>> In case you want to know about my project: https://interscity.org/about/ 
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>> Thanks,
>> Luana Nascimento.