Platform Cooperativism

= concept and practice suggested by Trebor Scholz, in the article: "Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy" [1]

Description

Excerpted :

" Worker–owned cooperatives could design their own apps-based platforms, fostering truly peer-to-peer ways of providing services and things "

Examples

... of ongoing projects:

( Dante-Gabryell Monson ) suggesting the spirit of Platform Cooperativism being empowered by Open Linked Data approaches :

- Loomio http://loomio.org/ ( including Open API approach : https://www.loomio.org/g/exAKrBUp/openapp )

- Assemblée Virtuelle , Rhizi , Open Value Network / Mikorizal Software , Netention , Metamaps Gen3 , ...

Ongoing projects and code

https://github.com/assemblee-virtuelle/

https://github.com/open-app ( relating to enspiral / loomio )

https://github.com/automenta/netjs ; https://github.com/automenta/netentionj ( netention )

https://github.com/valnet/ ( NRP ? )

https://github.com/tav/ampify ( Espians ? )

https://github.com/willzeng/WikiNets ( Rhizi )

https://github.com/d-cent ( D-cent )

https://docs.openmustardseed.org/next-steps/source-code/ ( open mustardseed )

Related Coop Models

• Open Cooperatives
• Data Cooperatives

The Age of Platforms - Loomio Open App

Excerpted from Enspiral's Loomio's Communicating Open App :

"Most networking and ‘sharing economy’ apps are platforms. The user signs up and joins a centralised platform from a single provider and connects to others on the same platform.

We view platforms as isolated silos that push entrepreneurs to compete rather than collaborate, waste effort writing the same boilerplate code rather than innovate, follow a risky strategy that ultimately degrades user experience and rights, and benefits financial investors over other stakeholders.

Building a platform obliges entrepreneurs to follow a ‘speed-to-market’ strategy - become the dominant player with the largest user-base as fast as possible before a competitor gets there first. The more users, the more people there are with whom to connect, trade and share, the more attractive the platform appears to further users. Platform builders dream of runaway ‘viral growth’ when their platform gains enough gravity to pull in users with little direct marketing effort.

Unfortunately, growing rapidly is expensive and providers can’t initially charge for the service lest they scare users away. It almost always involves large amounts of investor cash who will want a financial return at a later date and stiff competition from rivals offering similar services.

If a platform survives and becomes the dominant player an uneasy relationship forms with the users. To keep investors happy the provider must now monetise by upping fees, or selling ads and user-data. Monetisation degrades the user’s experience and risks an exodus to a cheaper, shinier competitor. Users might get a useful service but give up rights to their data and control of their online experience.

At the same time, it can be difficult for different platforms working on similar ideas to collaborate, even if the platforms are open-source. If someone starts a similar platform you might worry that they will take all the users.

If someone makes an app that uses the same protocols then they’ve just added to the ecosystem, and made your app more valuable."

Discussion

Dante :

What leads people to generating engagements amongst each other ? How are Social Contracts generated ? How can technology, such as Linked Data and Open Data be used to facilitate Resource Allocation in forms of Emergent Management , enabling increased Situational Awareness ?

I see money as a social contract, as metadata produced out of a debt contract. I see potential in enabling a directed graphed approach to blend a variety of metadata, generating our own layers of metadata , developing an understanding of their interdependencies and externalities. Contextualize needs and offers, suggestions and intentions ( Netention - Slides )

I imagine an emergent approach to governance and finance, which could enable a transfer of resources into communal shareholding dynamics , in support of the Commons , reducing hoarding , artificial scarcity, infinite accumulation of property.

Such tools are still in development ( various softwares , many open source : rhizi, metamaps, netention, nrp, ... ) with ideally open api's to facilitate cross platform usage of linked data.

Related topics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_allocation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence_2.0
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract

• Open Value Network NRP's
• Resource Type Setup Slides
• OVN Open Vocabulary

• Smart Contracts
• Codius http://codius.org/
• Crypto Equity
• After cryptocurrency,cryptoequity
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#The_block_chain_ledger
• Bitcoin

• Relational Model Typology - Fiske
• Debt to Intention

• Loomio Open App Intro

• Meoh Intro

• " Economics 2.0: The Natural Step towards a Self-Regulating, Participatory Market Society "

from http://sharewiki.org/en/Transaction_Graphs_2014

List of ungoing projcts which , according to Dante , share a similar vision :

Also see General Overview Compiled by Metamaps ( ask Dante for pass if needed )

http://metamaps.cc/maps/469

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https://github.com/uf6/design/issues

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Loomio Forum

https://www.loomio.org/g/exAKrBUp/openapp

Current related projects ? :

Offcourse, Bob's #ovni with #sensorica https://github.com/bhaugen , http://valnet.webfactional.com/ , http://www.sensorica.co/value-networks

Ishan / Connor and co's #metamaps gen3 http://metamaps.cc , https://metamaps.hackpad.com/

Eyal , Dor and co's #rhizi http://www.rhizi.org/ Dan and Seth #netention based #curiosume http://www.curiosume.org

Other netention relating systems ? including Daniel's #weboftrust ? with #ripple ? http://weboftrust.net/

Eric Harris Braun and Arthur Brock's #metacurrency http://metacurrency.org/

Larky's Noomap ( also based on Javascript , Json ? ... ) http://www.noomap.com/ ( same as with metamaps - code not published , yet ? )

Other collaboration platforms with a similar spirit ?

1. OuishareLabs http://labs.ouishare.net/

Academic partnerships ?

1. stample https://stample.co/login

MIT MediaLab related #IDcubed , #projectmustardseed and #idhypercubed "Project Mustard Seed" http://idhypercubed.org/wiki/ProjectMustardSeed http://docs.openmustardseed.org/ , http://idcubed.org ( including networks of contracts )

Other potentially related projects / internet of things :

1. alchematter : http://www.alchematter.org/ ( same as with metamaps and noomap, code not published, yet ? )

We may already have reviewed each of these ( and more ) over time ...

Various communities of practice , google groups, facebook groups, and mailing lists related to each,

or related to general related intentions ?

Such as :

Network of Networks :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/224544847711884/293754190790949/?notif_t=group_activity

Ouishare Labs :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OuiShare.Labs/

Existing (Fab?)Labs or planned Events where people can meet face to face :

feel free to add / suggest info ...

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in another thread, Pavlik replied :

I contributed to both RDF extensions for LevelGraph

• https://github.com/mcollina/levelgraph-jsonld/graphs/contributors
• https://github.com/mcollina/levelgraph-n3/graphs/contributors

I hope I can get back on improving them so happy to hear your feedback or just chat about it in general :)

Please also check tout Hydra API and Linked Data Fragments!!!

• http://www.hydra-cg.com/
• http://linkeddatafragments.org/

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regarding Open App api's ,

https://github.com/open-app

building from your existing enspiral communities and software, including Loomio and Cobudget ( I'll leave related links for others below )

in addition to last, more technical mail, you may also be in touch with some of these other projects ?

many of these people / projects have already talked with each other, with some who may have an interest ( in using / contributing ? ) in your api.

Would be nice also to introduce you to Ishan and Connor ( Metamaps Gen3 ) , Dor and Eyal ( Rhizi ), who have , broadly, a similar approach to Netention.

And so is also a french project ( https://github.com/assemblee-virtuelle/ , http://assemblee-virtuelle.org/ )

Cordially, Dante

some more details :

https://github.com/open-app/core

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe_mvnDRyQo

http://vimeo.com/90498374

http://loomio.org/ https://www.loomio.org/d/RJnwlM1g/project-update

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Regarding convergence, What ( existing ? ) wiki pages would we want to use to gather some of the following information  ?

Communication  :

Simon Tegg suggested to use the Loomio forum https://www.loomio.org/g/exAKrBUp/openapp

I notice a number of other online places online where there are exchanges in these fields :

- Sensorica mailinglist, and other pages http://valuenetwork.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page#Discussions_-_social_media

and development of what is now called "NRP", though I notice they may also be very much present on the loomio forums ( http://mikorizal.org/about.html )

- OuiShare Labs fb group https://www.facebook.com/groups/OuiShare.Labs/ http://labs.ouishare.net/

etc / further suggestions ?

As for listing existing code, with related intentions :

https://github.com/assemblee-virtuelle/

https://github.com/open-app ( relating to enspiral / loomio )

https://github.com/automenta/netjs ( netention )

https://github.com/valnet/ ( NRP ? )

https://github.com/tav/ampify ( Espians ? )

https://github.com/willzeng/WikiNets ( Rhizi )

etc ? / other projects code ?

metamaps ?

noomap ?

...

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and various other code of tools that are or could be included / used by / in combination with projects ?

https://github.com/project-douglas/eris

https://github.com/telehash/node-telehash

https://github.com/LocalData

further links ... ( Node.js , etc ? )

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Josef :

I've a huge fan (and active user) of loomio and love the sound of cobudget and so Open App is the project I'm following most closely at present.

http://dcentproject.eu/ is another aligned project with very similar goals to the other project Dante has listed.

Their homepage describes the project as:

"D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating privacy-aware tools and applications for direct democracy and economic empowerment. Together with the citizens and developers, we are creating a decentralised social networking platform for large-scale collaboration and decision-making. community ownership of social data security and privacy by design, open standards, mass scalability access to knowledge and open source"

see https://github.com/D-CENT and http://dcentproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/D4.1-State-of-the-Art_new.pdf for more info.

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Also see :

http://nodered.org/

( internet of things )

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Metamaps Dev :

http://metamaps.cc/maps/915

https://github.com/Connoropolous/metamaps_gen002/tree/develop

general overview

metamaps.cc/maps/469

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