Altruistic Economics

A presentation by Dr. Robin Upton, 2005-11-23,for Dhaka University Computer Science Department.

Available for download at www.altruists.org/ae404

Attribution – NonCommercial - ShareAlike

Beyond Money

www.altruists.org

AE404: Constructing an Internet Gift

Economy

V1.0

2 User Interface

Beyond Money

1. ing for someone to help.

2. Paying them without .

3. Finding work the same way.

If you need help, imagine…

3 Ask Your Friends

User Interface

Make your requestCategory:

.

Amount:

Location:Bangladesh .

ADVANCED OPTIONS:

Dhaka

Farmgate

Country:

City:

Region:

Number:

2kg .

Weight:

Requests

Angela Robinson, +550h –175h, Rating= 70h I make a lot of fruit pies. Best quality cooking apples, please …

Md. Ali Khan, +120h –40h, Rate= 10hI will need about 15kg of apples for my brother’s wedding. He loves apples…

!!

Graham Upton, +3h –2h, Rate= 20hI just can’t get my Wireless LAN working properly. It keeps cutting out, just …

Offers

Robin Upton, +160h –45h, Rate= -0.2Apples, Gardening Advice, Carpentry, German Lessons, Computers…

Md. Anwar, +14h –3h, Rate= -0.2Motorbike repair, Shop Management, Psychology, Apples …

Jamil Aman, +60h –15h, Rate= -0.35Computer programming, Apples, Fresh Olives, Internet Advice, Fertilizers …

Science/Agriculture/Horticulture/Fruits/Apples

4Ask Around

Request

Ask Your friends

Can you give me 2kg of Apples?

Sure.

5Say “Thank You”

Ask Around

Request

= Ask your friends… to ask their friends...

Request

Request

RequestRequest

Request

Request

Request

Request

to ask their friends...

Computers make this much easier…

to ask their friends...

Request

Request

Request

6Digital Identity

State what happened, digitally.

Say “Thank You!”

PublishOnline

PublishOnline

“I gave . 10 apples.”

“ gave me $5 worth of apples.”

7New Architecture

Digital Identity

PublishOnline

PublishOnline

“I gave . 10 apples.”

“ gave me $5 worth of apples.”

1. People need personal servers.

2. They must be networked.

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New Architecture

Links are from Friend to Friend

Individuals are connected to one another…

but it’s not P2P!

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Links are from Friend to Friend

. F2F Server Network

F2F is superior to P2P,

because of the real world trust!

www.altruists.org/ff

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FF: Friend2Friend Server Network

FF: Network Topology

…the secure communication layer

for the Internet Gift Economy.

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FF : Network Topology

FF: Traditional Cookies

f2f.RobinUpton.com

f2f.ekushey.org

f2f.honesty.org f2f.bd.net

f2f.re-cycle.org

Connections

Server-Server

Client-Server

f2f.emni.com.bd

FF: Servers have One client, Many friends.

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FF : 24/7 Online Data Server

f2f.RobinUpton.com

f2f.dinajpur.biz

Can you store data for me! Only share

it with altruists.org

f2f.altruists.org

Can I see all your data from 3rd party sites,

please?

Sites can share data securely (if you let them).

FF: Traditional Cookies

OK.

dinajpur.biz OK.

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Client Machine

Traditional Cookies

… All you have is a set of site-specific cookies

(ID#s which mean nothing to you)

Every users’ data

www.example2.com

Every users’ data

www.example1.com

Other websites control your data …

FF: Control Your Own Data

Enter your data

Cookie

Cookie

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f2f.RobinUpton.com

Client Machine

FF : Control Your Own Data

Sites prove their identity to you, not you to them!

www.udharon.co.bd

www.example.com

Public Key

Public Key

Private Key

Private Key

Public Key

Private Key

Unique copy of your personal data

FF: Implementation

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FF : Implementation

Internet Gift Economy

Create(name)

CopyItem(oldname, newname)

ChangeData(name)

Delete(name)

Rename(oldname, newname)

GetData(name)

GetMetaData(name)

AddData(name)

AddMetaData(name)

…

Add to a webserver by installing a PHP Function

Library and MySQL Database.

f2f.RobinUpton.com

FF manipulates data items, and manage permissions.

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FF : Friend2Friend

Internet Gift Economy

. Altruistic Economics

… : Various Dark Nets

AE : Altruistic Economics

NE : Nearest Info

GE : Gift Economy

Internet

Main project stack:

Moving Data

Defining Data

Processing Data

Presenting Data

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AE: Altruistic Economics

. AE: Distributed Accounting

Declare Sympathy for your friends.

They declare sympathy theirs, and so on…

Unselfish alternative to self-maximising!

*almost

www.altruists.org/ae

Everyone* is joined in a network of care.

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AE: Distributed Accounting

AE: Measuring Value

AE analyses the overall ties of Sympathy:

Conflation: A B C A C

Combination: A C A C

Records are held across the network.

www.altruists.org/ae3

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AE: Measuring Value

AE: Non-Zero Sum!

Use other people’s standards:

Flexible and decentralised system.

Personal Time

Conventional Money

& use your own currency:

www.altruists.org/ae7

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AE: Non Zero Sum!

NE: Nearest.Info

Multi-dimensional evaluations, not prices!

www.altruists.org/ae106

Good for Both

Bad for Both

+

+

-

-

X+Y=0

Zero Sum

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NE : Nearest.Info

NE/GE: Open Standards

Present hooks for the presentation layer.

Useful Calculations :

Data for GE

AE Data from FF

Amount Given ( )

Amount Received ( )

Creditworthiness ( )

...

Process the AE data…

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NE/GE : Open Standards…

GE: Web Style Interface

Multiple opportunities for interoperability

Unique Data StandardChoice of

Alternative Pre-processing

Hyperlinks

...Other

AE Data

Nearest Info...

Others will arise …

Choice of Presentation

GiftEconomy...

Others will arise …

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GE : Decentrlised Web Interface

GiftEconomy

XSL Transformations (Locally stored)

Data from NE

Like software, unlike WWW, a one-off download permits perpetual use!

Webpages

(Locally created from local data)

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GE : www.Gift Economy.org

1. Explanation of the Gift Economy

Wiki .

Download

s

etc.

…

www.altruists.org/ge

2. Chance to set up GE/NE/AE/FF

Easy Installer Package:

NE EvaluationsAE DefinitionsFF Server

GE Interface