[P2P-F] P2P Value Exchange

Mon Apr 4 05:11:52 CEST 2011

Dear Sam,

I find this idea of a  p2p-oriented personal transformation scorecard and
proposed pathway to be awesome.

I really hope you can expand on it and publish it as a blog proposal, this
is something to be worked on, perhaps in the context of
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Facilitation,

Michel

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It's tricky, and your business plan (if I may call it that) goes to the
> > heart of the potential logical glitch with Contact as well: how can we
> > expect to be paid a living for delivering groups of people unto
> themselves?
> > I suppose the only way is not only to love doing it, but to be so good at
> it
> > that you really are making something possible that wouldn't have been
> > otherwise.
> > That's why I say it's tricky. Ultimately, I would think you could develop
> a
> > set of resources that let people just do what you're talking about. The
> way
> > civic organizations federalized in the early 1900's (as Putnam explains
> in
> > Bowling Alone). In the meantime, and at the very outset, you actually
> > workshop these things live for money - which is also a trick since money
> is
> > the last thing most of these communities have.
> > But the "lack of action of community organizations that are focusing
> on..."
> > is troubling to me. It's like you've come up with a solution but can't
> find
> > people ready with the problem. There are many groups attempting
> sustainable
> > community/economic models though. If you're interested in hooking up with
> > them, I can find some lists.
> >
> >
> >
>
> You've got me thinking, Douglas, that there could be a use for a way
> for people to "audit" their lives, and see how much of their activity
> is currently in 20th century industrial paradigm ecologies, and how
> much they have invested in emerging p2p ecologies/economies.
>
> This is actually directly related to the models we're developing for
> our project "Understanding Today's Economic Transformation"
>
> http://rockethub.com/projects/1349-understanding-today-s-economic-transformation
> (contributions of any amount welcome, as this campaign is still active
> with 14 days left to go!). A practical application that is possible
> from that work could be an application to see your transition, plus
> ways to enhance participation in emerging systems.
>
> People communicate with me that they need workable ways for
> transitioning themselves as individuals and collaborative groups
> towards peer-to-peer economies. Re-localization is definitely part of
> the picture. So is organized sharing. And a fundamental approach that
> allows your work and systems to be highly re-usable/inter-operable.
>
>
> --
> --
> Sam Rose
> Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation
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>
> "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>

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