[p2p-research] Donation Networks

[Samuel Rose]

Dear P2P Research,

After some months working privately with agent based Altruism and
Cooperation models, I am working towards initiating an experiment with with
a small number regional and continental participants in creating a balanced
donation and distribution system.

The system is fairly simple:

Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person
maintains a "reputation" that is based on a "thank you" that is received
from the person they have donated to.  A tracking system monitors the
"carrying capacity" of donations. "thank you" assignments to participants
are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each
participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system as a
whole.

Total satisfaction, plus a "thank you" (which is seen in the system as
individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against satisfactory
receipt of donations (where you "thank" the other person, and thus add to
their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met,  would then
give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more, or
improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to maintain
total "health" of the system.

In the United States, this is my proposal as a route for people to
distribute regulated goods like food items, fuel production/ingredients, etc
in way that is legal, and that avoids "market" exchanges (it is legal to
donate or give items to one another in the fashion proposed above).

As local food systems, and open product design/fabrication activity is
already increasing, myself and others are seeing the above as a plausible
way to pool and share resources. Your thoughts are appreciated.
-- 
Sam Rose
Social Synergy
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he is very probably wrong."

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