DAHN Commons and Markets

DAHN's dynamic and adaptive selection of visualizers opens the door for contributions from front-end designers and developers. They can create novel visualizers (at different granularities) and make them available for selection by the DAHN Selector Function under a broad and extensible spectrum of value flow models.

DAHN itself offers a core set of visualizers via a Commons Model. That is, the core DAHN visualizers are made available to and for the benefit of the common good. As noted in the Foundations section on Resources, a commons is a social system for the long-term stewardship of resources that preserves shared values and community identity. In MAP terms, the community (set of agents) is a We-Space whose protocols, values and norms are defined in the memetic signature of that We-Space. DAHN's core visualizers will be offered for free.

HI Developers are encouraged to, likewise, contribute their custom visualizers under a Commons Model. However, the MAP recognizes that HI Developers (like all MAP explorers) need to feed their families, have a roof overhead, and enjoy human freedoms. Providing ways for HI Developers to earn revenue within the MAP ecosystem (which we sometimes simplistically refer to as the conscious economy) means they don't have to earn that revenue in the exploitative, unconscious economy. In other words, contributing open-source software for free to the commons is great, but if I need to work a "day job" outside the MAP ecosystem to take care of my own needs and those of my family then I am participating (and fueling) the very economic system that is at the root of many (most) of our global crises.

Thus, DAHN also allows HI Developers to contribute visualizers to open-ended DAHN Markets. DAHN Markets are We-Spaces with governance models, goals, norms, values and principles specified in their memetic signature. Alignment with those values and adherence to the governance model can be a requirement for participation in that market.

Visualization is a service that is offered by a human or organization agent via a visualization service offer.
Offers are placed in one or more DAHN V-Spaces (which is a type of MAP We-Space).
Members of a DAHN We-Space inlude both contributing agents (i.e., agents having a contributor role in that V-Space) and requesting agents (i.e., agents having a requester role in that V-Space). NOTE: an agent can have more than one role.
Visualizers have aesthetic, functional and memetic characteristics
Offers spell out the memetic signature of the service in vertical and horizontal dimensions.
In the horizontal dimension, a visualization service offer specifies:
- Visualizer Type (i.e., Canvas, Node, Property, Graph or Collection)
- Holon Type for which this visualizer provides presentation and interaction
- Design System to which this visualizer conforms
- Licensing Model for the visualizer software. A licensing model is a meme. Various licensing models are available in MAP meme pools. For example, a visualizer could be offered for free usage via a gift model under a commons or open source license (Open Source License Model Comparison)
- Reciprocal value flow that specifies the bi-directional resource flows associated with a service invocation. The source code of the visualizer is a resource that flows from its providing agent to its requesting agent via a service invocation.The reciprocal flow (from requesting agent to providing agent) may include financial resources (for paid visualization services).
- Data Sharing Policy specifying the properties that are accessible to each party under this agreement. For example, this policy could (and likely would) specify that upon acceptance of a visualization service offer, the requesting agent is entitled to access the source code of a visualizer (e.g., javascript, html, css) when invoking that visualization service. An open-ended set of standard Data Sharing Policy types are memes that are stored in MAP meme pools.
A licensing model is a meme.Various licensing models are available in MAP meme pools. For example, a visualizer could be offered for free usage via a gift model under a commons or open source license (Open Source License Model Comparison).
Accepting a visualization service offer creates an agreement under which the visualization service may be invoked (by the DAHN Selector Function). This agreement is referred to as a visualizer usage.
The visualizer usage stores various information about the requesting agent's use of this visualization service, including their personalization choices.

In its simplest form, a visualization service could be offered at a financial price under, say, a time-based (subscription) or usage based model. For example:

Subscription fee (e.g., $X per month)
Per use fee (e.g., $0.001 per use, rounded to the nearest dollar -- so, effectively, the first 500 uses are free). This approach closely couples the price I pay to how much I actually use a visualizer.

The MAP provides the infrastructure to support the various cryptographically-secure value flows. Leveraging micro-payment standards such as Interledger. may allow the MAP-supported value flows to connect to external payment gateways.

To be sustainable, the MAP itself needs a funding source. One option under consideration is for the MAP to assess a small usage fee on transactions conducted via the MAP.

Beyond the simple model described above, the open-ended array of possible models is virtually unbounded. For example, just as HI Developers can contribute visualizers to DAHN, MAP Service Developers can contribute services that support any of the following (and more).

multi-layer contribution models -- for example, consider a node visualizer that relies on a set of property visualizers. The providers of the property visualizers may be thought of as contributors to the node visualizer experience. This could be formalized via service agreements between the provider of the node visualizer and the various property visualizer providers. If a human agent selects that node visualizer, the price they pay could then be automatically (and in a cryptographically-secure way) sub-divided across the various contributors per those secondary agreements. Note that the concept of contributors could be extended to include, say, artists that contribute artwork, songs, etc. used to enrich the node visualizer's experience.
multi-party agreements -- the proceeds from a visualizer service-usage could be directed to one or more NGO's.
multi-dimensional pricing -- service offers don't need to be limited to financial prices. For example, the Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua group identified 8 Forms of Capital in 2011. They have expanded on these concepts in their 2015 book, Regenerative Enterprise. Prices (in a very broad sense of that term) could be expressed any or all of these dimensions of capital.

The examples provided here just scratch the surface of what is possible. Collectively, the DAHN Commons and Markets hold the potential to foster the emergence and evolution of an extraordinarily rich, open-ended set of visualizers that all MAP explorers can use to view and interact with ANY MAP information and services. Collectively, DAHN inverts the power asymmetry exploited by large corporations by empowering human agents to configure the experience that works best for them. It lowers the cost of entry for MAP Service Providers by providing a default human experience without requiring any front-end development work. And it provides a channel for HI Developers to create highly tailored visual experiences and select from a diverse (and evolving) set of reciproval value flow models through which they can deliver their custom visualization services.

Because visualization services are, themselves, MAP Services, these examples also hint at the broad range of reciprocal value flows possible for ANY MAP service.

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