Tiberius Brastaviceanu: A status update on the Open Value Accounting project in Sensorica

Excerpted from Tiberius Brastaviceanu:

“Our (sensoricans) idea about how value, of different types, flows within value networks is getting a little more concrete, after two years of living the value network an observing these flows establishing themselves. The new infrastructure version for value networks that we’re implementing now, as we speak, takes into consideration our new findings and understanding. It will also help us extract data and produce visuals for how value flows within SENSORICA. We’re probably going to interface with metamaps.

Having said that, all this stuff is not simple. Once you decide to treat consider value in its most general form you find out that there is an entire forest of values and value-related things. We’re now trying to do some botany in there, to put some order in all this diversity, and to identify leverages in this value ecosystem, which will become levers of “control” of the value network. In short, there are many different types of contributions individuals can make, and there are different types of value.

For the “commons” now. I only consider commons immaterial things. Information and knowledge form one type. A brand is an example of another type. All material things that are shared and are consumed or degraded during use form the “pool of shareables”. The distinction between the commons and shareables is important because these things require different accounting tools, different management tools, different governance, etc.

I don’t see what we call commons as the milieu. The entire ecosystem is the milieu in my mind, and the structure of this ecosystem is driven by the network of all processes related to value, hence the name “value network”. The commons, as we see it, is a generative entity, so I resonate with the idea of “field of emergence”. It is a pool of potential, sourcing innovation. It also represents intrinsic value, because it has an influence on recruiting, i.e. people are attracted by it and decide to participate. BUT most people neglect know how. When you consider knowledge as commons you MUST consider know how, which cannot be part of the commons, because it cannot be put somewhere for other to consume. Proximity is IMPORTANT in transfer of know how. Know how lives ONLY within individuals. It can be transferred to other individuals by tutoring, mentoring… which are time consuming and intense activities, but it cannot be shared on an informational support. You can feel the difference between knowledge and know how next time you’ll try to make (know how) a cake following a recipe (the knowledge) you find on the Internet. So, for the knowledge commons to be effective one needs to consider know how and to put in place mechanisms for its transfer. We created a few spaces to discuss about these issues, see the Value Network community on G+. You can also contribute to the Value Network wiki.

Please contribute to these spaces so that together, we create enough content in one place to inspire others to join this movement.”

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