[p2p-research] Donation Networks

[Tere Vadén]

Maybe of interest:

http://microvolunteerism.org/index.php/Main_Page

Samuel Rose wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
> "When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is 
> possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is 
> impossible, he is very probably wrong."
>  
>    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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