[P2P-F] P2P Value Exchange

Tue Apr 5 02:04:00 CEST 2011

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Look for this from us soon for sure. We have some work that some
people may recall from about a year ago that was a foundation for
this, and we'll revisit it and post it to blog and wiki soon.

> 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.
>>
>>
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>> Sam Rose
>> Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation
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>> ambition." - Carl Sagan
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