---------- Forwarded message --------- From: pos pi <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:03 AM Subject: Open Value Networks update 2018/11 To: Hi all, As things related to *Open Value Networks* seem to be cropping up all over my world at the moment, I thought I would take the liberty of sending an update on all OVN-related activity I’m in the loop about to widen your window into where these ideas are being turned into realities. Let me know if you would like to be connected with people or groups mentioned in this list and I am happy to make introductions for you (: There are a number of different projects underway building out different backend infrastructures to support the REA data model. In parallel with this, development of numerous interfaces to enable OVN-supported interactions are also underway. *On the user interface front:* My talented co-conspirator Ivan Minutillo has continued work on the OCE <https://opencoopecosystem.net/> more or less continually over the last 18 months, and an ecosystem of React-based interfaces for REA APIs is beginning to emerge. So far, all apps are built on the GraphQL APIs that myself, Lynn Foster and Bob Haugen added to OCP <https://github.com/FreedomCoop/valuenetwork> (a fork of Sensorica’s original NRP <http://nrp.sensorica.co/>) back in 2017. This provides a clean, abstract API interface that is easily workable with other future backends. The flagship OCE app is currently the so-called “agent dashboard”. On the more experimental side— Bob, Lynn and Ivan have been exploring the concept of merging social interactions and economic interactions into the same systems. This groundwork is set to lead to a new generation of more lightweight chat-like REA applications <https://ivanminutillo.com/2018/10/14/an-enconomic-markdown/>, which we hope will eventually supercede the aging, centralised and resource-heavy NRP system and its forks. *Holochain infrastructure:* I have officially resigned from ConsenSys and finish out my contract this week. David Hand, Ivan and myself have begun work on a Holochain-based implementation of the REA data model, in consultation with Bob and Lynn. This, we hope, will become the new economic protocol framework for ethical producers, organic growers, intentional communities and smart cities (but eventually production in general) to manage and share their resources. David (who was part of the team who created the original NRP) and I are investigating the systems layer and building GraphQL interfaces to Holochain such that Ivan’s existing OCP UIs can work with the new backend without alteration. Producer’s Token <https://www.producerstoken.com/> have recently gotten in touch with our team and are investigating ways they can help to support the project financially. Their initial goal is to build a platform for agricultural buyers and sellers to connect directly. *Scuttlebutt infrastructure:* Luandro Vieira continues to implement a village mesh network combined with a social-economic network. Several other people have started to use Secure Scuttlebutt <https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/> in Brazil and are connecting with Luandro. *ActivityPub infrastructure:* In the ActivityPub <https://activitypub.rocks/> space, Mayel de Borniol is back in action, and MoodleNet <https://docs.moodle.org/dev/MoodleNet> is shooting for some December and January deadlines that will tell us what we have to build on there. *Original Django infrastructure:* - FreedomCoop <http://freedomcoop.eu/> continue to push the development of new interfaces for OCP / NRP forward, along with upgrades to the backend system. - LearnDeep <http://learndeep.org/> continue their experimentation with NRP and new interfaces tailored to managing their high-school fablab project. - Macaco <http://www.macaomilano.org/> will be a new additional on-the-ground usergroup, testing Ivan’s work coordination UIs on top of OCP. - FairCoop CoopShares <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/FairCoop_Coopshares> is an upcoming project that both Lynn and Ivan have been involved in and may use Ivan’s UI components plus one of the new P2P infrastructures: most likely ActivityPub, but maybe Holochain, whichever is getting ready faster. It will also involve a combination of the P2P infrastructure and a blockchain, so there will be some interesting integrations to occur there. *Case studies, potential partnerships and other collaborations:* - Myself and the ConsenSys Solutions Australia team (including my flatmate Thomas Miller and friend Stephen Alexander <http://www.stephenalexander.com.au/>) are visiting the outback town of Charleville this week speaking to the local council about ways of enacting economic sovereignty using tokenized economic systems, with a view to building new government services on combinations of Ethereum and Holochain. The outcome of this will be a regional economic development & sustainability report for the Australian federal government; specifically focusing on the survival of remote farming communities critical to ensuring food security in our country. They will be consulting with a view to deploying OVN architectures in a range of problem spaces and aiming to seed new value forms within the tokenized economies favoured by the blockchain community; starting with community-owned ISPs. The framework we will be discussing is based on the following modelling, heavily influenced by the work of the Metacurrency project: [image: P_20181113_142829.jpg] - Bob has been in touch with Wim Laurier <https://www.academia.edu/33293705/A_Simulation_Model_Articulation_of_the_REA_Ontology> at his request. He has been working on REA business collaboration spaces. He’s working on some automated logic for deriving conventional accounting reports for each agent involved in an economic collaboration, from all the REA events floating through the collaboration space. He’s focused on blockchains, but his logic will work on any infrastructure. He says his logic will be declarative and will require no procedural code. - My contacts at bHive Bendigo <http://bhive.coop/> (intimately involved with Eric Doriean of AnyShare <https://app.sharing.space/login>) are looking into creating OVN networks on Holochain to power their economic coordination app toolkit. It’s likely they will end up being consumers of the system that myself, David & Ivan have just begun implementing. - The intentional community <http://lifebubbles.org/> Thomas and I live on (outdated website) is adopting OVN principles for documenting the R&D that goes in to the sustainable living experiments we are undertaking here. I plan to use this as an opportunity to dogfood *Holo-REA* as we build it. We also have good relationships with local LETS communities and other eco-villages we are looking at ways of networking and sharing resources with. - Monique Potts and her colleagues at The University of Technology Sydney Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit have begun to experiment more earnestly with OVNs and REA modelling as part of their masters winter school programs. - Peter Morris from Geelong, near Melbourne, got in touch with me via Bob & Lynn on the topic of wanting to start a similar program at a university in Victoria. Peter has a background in the telecommunications industry so there is likely possible cross-pollination with the work Thomas and Stephen are doing. Peter’s ultimate goal is in using the data generated by REA systems as an aid in evidence-based decision-making in government policy. - I will be flying to Chiang Mai to visit Michel Bawens of the P2P Foundation in the third week of December, along with some blockchain engineers, cryptographers and hopefully members of the Circles UBI team from ConsenSys. My aim for those discussions was to lay out the designs for this network of economic networks and have Michel play devil’s advocate & domain expert along the way to a solution design; but I’m completely open to any and all additional forms of learning / exploration. Please feel free to share this with as many people as you see fit- all the above is public knowledge. The future looks bright indeed for an OVN-enabled revolution! -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/