THE COMMONS: The Story of Everyone A Blended Reality Platform for Global Health Improvement
The Inescapable Interconnectedness of Global Health Majority of worlds population has moved into middle class* leading to… Increased use of Common Goods Water Air Land Increased use of public goods Infrastructure Education Financial markets *https://www.gapminder.org
Common good: the complexity of individual and group action Common goods are starting to be viewed as a market in need of management Group action provides access to the common good resources Individual action is consumption of the common good resources When the common good is efficiently used general health is improved Establish a process for the increasingly efficient use of the resources
What is a blended reality environment Web platform that models the impact of real world consumption on a variety of resources in a virtual environment Model of environmental impact is based on formulas that convert the use of resources into consumables Provides feedback to individuals and groups to modify consumption behavior Visual representation of impact Tokens earned for decreased use of resources
Four Key Commons Concepts Health is the global minimization of predictive error* Blockchain distributed ledger Token based valuation of Common Good resources Administered through a Distributed Autonomous Organization *http://www.compassionmillennium.org/health.html
Visual feed back Ten square meters of land = 1kg bread 120 square meters = 1 kg meat
View Impact Across the World
Token economy A cryptocurrency token awarded for decreased use of the common good Tokens cannot be bought only earned No reduction of resources no tokens awarded More tokens awarded for greater impact = = Photo by Soroush Karimi on Unsplash Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash
BackFeed*: A Distributed Autonomous Organization A blockchain technology platform Uses a decentralized value distribution system to support cooperation across scales Provides for bottom up decentralized collaboration mechanism Establishes reliable identity verification through reputation and patterns of engagement behavior Agents can be individual or organizations and can contribute to multiple decentralized collaborations *http://backfeed.cc
System benefits Every person is can participate Tokens have a strong potential to be transferable Use of common resources impacts all so prime for common solutions Potential to expand to public goods like infrastructure
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