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Dante-Gabryell Monson

Contractual Agent Societies: Negotiated shared context and social control in open multi... - 2 views

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    Contractual Agent Societies: Negotiated shared context and social control in open multi-agent systems Chrysanthos Dellarocas Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Dell@mit.edu
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    Contractual Agent Societies: Negotiated shared context and social control in open multi-agent systems Chrysanthos Dellarocas Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Dell@mit.edu
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Gift economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
       
      Does the position on the scarcity-abundance spectrum influence the type of economy that dominates a society?  
  • Lewis Hyde locates the origin of gift economies in the sharing of food,
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  • of the gift as something that must "perish"
  • strictly egalitarian sharing of all food resources in each atoll.
  • reciprocal gifts of money, or remittances back to their home community.
  • the potlatch ritual, where leaders give away large amounts of goods to their followers, strengthening group relations. By sacrificing accumulated wealth, a leader gained a position of honor.
  • kórima
  • one's duty to share his wealth with anyone.
  • some Spanish villages in the 1930s,
  • a currency-less gift economy where goods and services are produced by workers and distributed in community stores where everyone
  • is essentially entitled to consume whatever they want or need as "payment" for their production of goods and services.
  • offering
  • usually food
  • the free gift of alms is a religious requirement
  • tzedakah is a religious obligation that must be performed regardless of financial standing.
  • information is a nonrival good and can be gifted at practically no cost.[
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
       
      This is part of the conditions for a gift economy to emerge. 
  • Traditional scientific research can be thought of as an information gift economy.
  • reputation
  • Consumer Gift Systems
  • music downloading as a system of social solidarity based on gift transactions
  • open-source software developers have created "a 'gift culture' in which participants compete for prestige by giving time, energy, and creativity away"
  • Wikipedia
  • gifts to be a form of reciprocal altruism.
  • social status is awarded in return
  • food-sharing is a safeguard against the failure of any individual's daily foraging
  • concern for the well-being of others
  • a form of informal insurance
  • may bring with it social status or other benefits
  • a traditional gift economy is based on "the obligation to give, the obligation to accept, and the obligation to reciprocate,"
  • it is "at once economic, juridical, moral, aesthetic, religious, and mythological.
  • the gift must always move.
  • a difference between a "true" gift given out of gratitude and a "false" gift given only out of obligation
  • the "true" gift binds us in a way beyond any commodity transaction, but "we cannot really become bound to those who give us false gifts.
  • Hyde argues that when a primarily gift-based economy is turned into a commodity-based economy, "the social fabric of the group is invariably destroyed."[
  • prohibitions against turning gifts into capital
  • treating gift exchange as barter
  • treating Kula as barter is considered a disgrace.
  • commercial goods can generally become gifts, but when gifts become commodities, the gift "...either stops being a gift or else abolishes the boundary...
  • Contracts of the heart lie outside the law
  • Sociologist Marcel Mauss
  • gifts entail obligation and are never 'free'.
  • it is easy to romanticize a gift economy, humans do not always wish to be enmeshed in a web of obligation
  • person seeking independence who decides not to accept
  • There are times when we want to be aliens and strangers.
  • A gift creates a "feeling bond
  • Commodity exchange does not
  • Georges Bataille
  • to his point of view the structure of gift forms the presupposition for all possible economy
  • the receiver of the gift to confirm a subjection
  • practice that bears out different roles for the parts that undertake an action in it, installing in this act of donating the Hegelian dipole of master and slave
  • anarcho-primitivists and anarcho-communists, believe that variations on a gift economy may be the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
  • desire to refashion all of society into a gift economy.
  • a gift economy as an ideal, with neither money, nor markets, nor central planning
  • the paradigm of "mutual aid"
  • mutual benefit is a stronger incentive than mutual strife and is eventually more effective collectively in the long run to drive individuals to produce.
  • a gift economy stresses the concept of increasing the other's abilities and means of production, which would then (theoretically) increase the ability of the community to reciprocate to the giving individual.
  • collective shunning where collective groups keep track of other individuals' productivity, rather than leaving each individual having to keep track of the rest of society by him or herself.
Dante-Gabryell Monson

About « Project Byzantium - 1 views

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    "The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet.  This is done by setting up an ad-hoc wireless mesh network that offers services which replace popular websites often used for this purpose, such as Twitter and IRC."
Dazinism Dazinism

gnizr - Project Hosting on Google Code - 0 views

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    gnizr™ (gə-nīzər) is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized del.icio.us-like portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify and share information, and to mash-it-
benjamb

COHAB Initiative : Co-Operation on Health & Biodiversity - 0 views

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    COHAB is a community of individuals and organisations working together to address the gaps in awareness, policy and action on the links between biodiversity and human health and well-being. The Initiative supports efforts to enhance human security through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the goods and services it provides. COHAB provides a platform for dialogue, promoting understanding and experience sharing, and working to build partnerships across sectors and cultural divides.
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Climate Lab - 0 views

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    Climate Lab is a nonpartisan nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, DC.  Our mission is to develop web-based tools for knowledge sharing and collaboration that drive action to address climate change.
benjamb

Cohere >>> make the connection - 0 views

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    The Web is about IDEAS+PEOPLE. Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas. Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking.
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Ushahidi :: Products - 0 views

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    "Tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories." "SwiftRiver is an open source platform that aims to democratize access to tools for filtering & making sense of real-time information."
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Visual Understanding Environment - 0 views

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    The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.
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Home - Pattern Language of Group Process - 0 views

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    "We hold a vision of bringing gatherings alive by sharing core wisdom of what makes deliberative group conversations more fulfilling and inspiring, more effective and more whole. We would be delighted to have your participation in this collaborative effort."
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Welcome to ThePOOSH.org | ThePOOSH.org - 2 views

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    To inspire and empower people to build economical, sustainable, and community created structures through an international network of skilled and unskilled volunteers that exchange knowledge, labor, and experiences at sustainable self-build projects. Help one another, house one another, sustain life on our planet!
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ShareFoodForest - 0 views

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    We want to be one initiative of artists, scientists and the interested parties to build a global food network and make available to specify with the goal in mind every person on this planet a chance to eat free and healthy. We are one, divided by zero.
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ShiftSpace | mix, annotate, shift, share, any website, anywhere - 0 views

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    an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
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