1. 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 AE 4 0 4 : Constructing an Internet Gift Economy V1.0

2. 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. 3 Ask Your Friends User Interface Make your request Category:. 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= 10h I will need about 15kg of apples for my brother’s wedding. He loves apples… !! Graham Upton, +3h –2h, Rate= 20h I just can’t get my Wireless LAN working properly. It keeps cutting out, just … Offers Robin Upton, +160h –45h, Rate= -0.2 Apples, Gardening Advice, Carpentry, German Lessons, Computers… Md. Anwar, +14h –3h, Rate= -0.2 Motorbike repair, Shop Management, Psychology, Apples … Jamil Aman, +60h –15h, Rate= -0.35 Computer programming, Apples, Fresh Olives, Internet Advice, Fertilizers … Science/Agriculture/Horticulture/Fruits/Apples

4. 4 Ask Around Request Ask Your friends Can you give me 2kg of Apples? Sure.

5. 5 Say “Thank You” Ask Around Request = Ask your friends… to ask their friends... Request to ask their friends... Computers make this much easier… to ask their friends... Request

6. 6 Digital Identity State what happened, digitally. Say “Thank You!” Publish Online Publish Online “I gave. 10 apples.” “ gave me $5 worth of apples.”

7. 7 New Architecture Digital Identity Publish Online Publish Online “I gave. 10 apples.” “ gave me $5 worth of apples.” 1. People need personal servers. 2. They must be networked.

8. 8 New Architecture Links are from Friend to Friend Individuals are connected to one another… but it’s not P2P !

9. 9 Links are from Friend to Friend. F2F Server Network F2F is superior to P2P, because of the real world trust! www.altruists.org/ff

10. 10 FF: Friend2Friend Server Network FF: Network Topology …the secure communication layer for the Internet Gift Economy.

11. 11 FF : Network Topology FF: Traditional Cookies f2f.RobinUpton.com f2f.ekushey.org f2f.honesty.orgf2f.bd.net f2f.re-cycle.org Connections Server-Server Client-Server f2f.emni.com.bd FF: Servers have One client, Many friends.

12. 12 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 3 rd party sites, please? Sites can share data securely (if you let them). FF: Traditional Cookies OK. dinajpur.biz OK.

13. 13 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

14. 14 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 Private Key Public Key Private Key Unique copy of your personal data FF: Implementation

15. 15 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.

16. 16 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

17. 17 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.

18. 18 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

19. 19 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

20. 20 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

21. 21 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…

22. 22 NE/GE : Open Standards… GE: Web Style Interface Multiple opportunities for interoperability Unique Data Standard Choice of Alternative Pre-processing Hyperlinks... Other AE Data Nearest Info... Others will arise … Choice of Presentation GiftEconomy... Others will arise …

23. 23 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)

24. 24 GE : www.Gift Economy.org 1. Explanation of the Gift Economy Wiki. Downloads etc. … www.altruists.org/ge 2. Chance to set up GE/NE/AE/FF Easy Installer Package: NE Evaluations AE Definitions FF Server GE Interface