I agree that trust and reputation are important and it would be useful to have better ways to capture and communicate that kind of information. <br><br>ref &quot;the group would
allocate a score for individuals over the previous month based on set criteria&quot; - I don&#39;t feel any affinity with any idea related to grading people.  However I do think we could do with finding out more quickly &quot;who knows what&quot; and &quot;who else knows how well they know it&quot;. <br>
<br>Ref &quot;small groups of 20 to 30 people who would meet once a
month&quot; - I agree the the basis of &quot;reputation and trust&quot; is relationships between people who have taken time to get to know each other. This can be done online or face to face. Many people find F2F accelerates relationships. I wouldn&#39;t make it as formal as is suggested. I do think that conversations are the starting point, and small (low-risk) collaborations are a good practical way to build trust and reputations. Obviously there are different opportunities in different fields of work. ( I&#39;m reluctant to speak in generalisation as I have been doing here as they are so open to misunderstandings.)<br>
<br>I think before we discuss the &#39;How?&quot; of collecting this kind of information the important question is &quot;Why do we want to know?&quot; In my own case I want to know about &quot;someone new&quot; if I need to find someone for something and there is no-one in my existing network. Then I want to know if anyone else knows anyone - or can suggest how I can find anyone. Finding out more effectively who knows possible people and how well could be helpful. It&#39;s been part of &quot;the old boys&#39; network&quot; way of doing things for years, and maybe we can take the good features of that, and appropriate ICT approaches, and open things up and be more effective. I think it&#39;s more about network theory than scoring.  <br>
<br>Pamela <br><br><br>   <br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">George Pór</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:george@community-intelligence.com">george@community-intelligence.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
Date: 23 September 2012 14:15<br>Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Advice re reputation metrics<br>To: P2P Foundation mailing list &lt;<a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a>&gt;<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> </div><div>Reputation metric makes me squirm.  Any form of Scientific Method and I mean &#39;Form&quot; that is attempted is dubious at best, and will fail to garner results.  The existential chit chat with colleagues may be more useful.<br>

</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>with all the thousands of them, with many of which I&#39;ve never had and will have a chance to mee person?</div><div><br></div><div>reputation in small, face-to-face groups is easy</div>

<div><br></div><div>when we also want to collaborate in large, global networks of peers, then we need something more feasible than the existential chit chat, IMHO</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br>
</div><div>george</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div> </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Denis Postle <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:d.postle@btinternet.com" target="_blank">d.postle@btinternet.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
  
    
  
  <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <font face="Trebuchet MS">Hi Robin,<br>
      I don&#39;t know how you would apply it to complementary currencies</font>
    but various versions of the arrangements you outline have been in
    place for 17 years in <a href="http://i-p-n.org/" target="_blank">The Independent
      Practitioner Network [IPN]</a> that I belong to in the UK. Smaller
    groups than you mention, 5-8, meet every six weeks or so. Their task
    is get to know each other well enough to be able to &#39;stand by&#39; their
    work with clients (a reputation &#39;metric&#39;?). For me the strong
    version of this derives from <a href="http://www.human-inquiry.com/asre.htm" target="_blank">&#39;self and peer
      assessment&#39;</a> based on a list of mutually agreed criteria, which
    is what you seem to be suggesting.<br>
    <br>
    I have written about this extensively, see my forthcoming book <a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/therapy-futures/#" target="_blank">Therapy
      Futures</a> and previously <a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/regulating-the-psychological-therapies-from-taxonomy-to-taxidermy/#.UF63CVEpXnj" target="_blank">Regulating
      the psychological therapies.</a><br>
    <br>
    In my experience your assumption...<br>
    <br>
    <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">... that
      self-determination, that is, autonomy (intrinsic motivation),
      relatedness and competence is vital for social justice where for
      individuals to be self-determining, everyone else must be
      self-determining.</font><br>
    <br>
    ...is very sound. <br>
    <br>
    A critical other dimension is that the distribution of power is
    constantly under scrutiny, ie that dominance and subordination are
    eliminated. This doesn&#39;t mean that hierarchies of experience and
    skill are eliminated but that decision making is consensual. A tough
    task this since domination often seems to me to be in the grain of
    the times.<br>
    <br>
    I hope this helps <br>
    Denis<br>
    denisATpostle.net<br>
    <br>
    <div>On 23/09/2012 01:00, robin wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div>
        
        
        <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi All</span></p>
        <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt" class="MsoNormal">I am researching (via a PhD with the University of
          Tasmania) the idea of a reputation metric as a currency in a
          complementary currency project to
          test whether it would increase trust and other prosocial
          behaviours in local
          communities but most importantly to scale up trust between
          people that don’t
          know each other. What ideas do people have about how you would
          structure a
          reputation metric in practice? My vague ideas at the moment
          are that you could
          have resilience circles, small groups of 20 to 30 people who
          would meet once a
          month. They would act as support for each other, but also the
          group would
          allocate a score for individuals over the previous month based
          on set criteria
          for how each have exchanged with other people whether in the
          group or with
          others in different groups against the criteria which would
          attempt to vaguely
          measure autonomy, competence and relatedness. My research is
          based on the
          assumption that self-determination, that is, autonomy
          (intrinsic motivation),
          relatedness and competence is vital for social justice where
          for
          individuals to be self-determining, everyone else must be
          self-determining.</p>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Any advice appreciated, eg are there are other groups that
          I could this to that might be relevant? Do I need to supply
          more information?</div>
        <div>Thanks &amp; regards</div>
        <div>Robin</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        </div>
      <br>
      <br>
      <div>
        <span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;border-collapse:separate"><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;border-collapse:separate">
            <div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;border-collapse:separate">
                <div style="word-wrap:break-word">
                  <div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Robin
                          Krabbe</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>President
                          - North-West Environment Centre</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Convenor
                          - Community Exchange North-West Environment
                          Centre (CENTs)</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i><br>
                        </i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>P.O.
                          Box 999</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Burnie,
                          TAS, Australia  7320</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i><br>
                        </i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>1022
                          Oldina Road</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Oldina,
                          TAS, Australia  7325</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i><br>
                        </i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Ph.
                          03 6438 1454</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Mob.
                          0421 461 724</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i>Fax.
                          03 6438 1455</i></font></div>
                    <div><font color="#008a57"><i><a href="mailto:rkrabbe@westnet.com.au" target="_blank">rkrabbe@westnet.com.au</a></i></font></div>
                  </div>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </span><br>
            </div>
          </span><br>
        </span><br>
      </div>
      <br>
      <br>
      <fieldset></fieldset>
      <br>
      <pre>_______________________________________________
P2P Foundation - Mailing list
<a href="http://www.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://www.p2pfoundation.net</a>
<a href="https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><span><font color="#888888">
</font></span></pre><span><font color="#888888">
    </font></span></blockquote><span><font color="#888888">
    <br><span><font color="#888888">
    <div>-- <br>
      
      
      <div align="center"> <small><small><small><font face="Helvetica,
                Arial, sans-serif"><i>THERAPY FUTURES</i> - Obstacles
                and Opportunities - Introducing the psyCommons</font></small></small></small><br>
        <small><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">pre-order
                from<a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/" target="_blank"> PCCS Books</a></font></small></small><br>
          <br>
        </small>
        <div align="center"><small><small><small><font face="Helvetica,
                  Arial, sans-serif">The Mind Gymnasium FREE <a href="http://www.mind-gymnasium.com/" target="_blank">ebook Library</a></font></small></small><br>
            <small><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
                    sans-serif">A unique
                    digital resource for
                    Personal and Professional development</font></small></small></small>
          <br>
        </small></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </font></span></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">

<br>_______________________________________________<br>
P2P Foundation - Mailing list<br>
<a href="http://www.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://www.p2pfoundation.net</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote></div><br>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
P2P Foundation - Mailing list<br>
<a href="http://www.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://www.p2pfoundation.net</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div></div></div><br>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
P2P Foundation - Mailing list<br>
<a href="http://www.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://www.p2pfoundation.net</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><br>
<br></div><br>