Value Propositions

Rocking The Wall

30 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell.
Tinneke Beeckman, David Criekemans, and Robert Heirbaut were invited at ‘Vredescentrum in Antwerp’ to reflect on it. I shared with the presenters the belief that democratic freedom is a gift, and it is not for granted.

Tinneke Beeckman showed some ways to think about freedom. She mentioned the (potential) loss of digital privacy as one of the many threats for freedom (especially when you use the lens of ‘republican liberty’, a concept that she will explain further in her next book). Other threats are e.g. the rise of authorian leaders and change in our prosperity model.

Another reflection of the presenters; it is by civic and positive action that humanity moves forward. Who does believe we are lost ? Just join: in 2030, we will say that we have used our democratic power and passion for building up sustainable businesses and education. Okay ? A responsible internet will facilitate.

P.S.-1: Threefold is a project of Freeflow Nation, read the manifesto of Freeflow Nation here. Co:Inpetto supports it by becoming a chapter of it.
P.S.- 2: Enjoy Bruce Springsteen 16 months before the Berlin Wall fell – Rock and roll helped to topple the wall – Rocking the Wall.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow.
The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Bruce springsteen

Service Platform for the The Circular Economy

My data principles, new ways to support transactions, and tokens would support the circular economy. That’s a claim we made during an event on Blockchain Organizing. It was two years ago, we organized it as partners of Weconomics.

It needed to be shouted out because only by cooperation we could move forward. Threefold came on the radar, and an intense learning journey started.

Of course, other collaborative kept on moving as well. I did some updating by reading e.g., the white paper of a CoP powered by ‘Nederland Circulair’. Good ideas and learnings are shared. Download the text, the circular service platform whitepaper – here.

Some technical blockchain challenges are mentioned in the text, like privacy and easy token exchange. Threefold has a solution to overcome these challenges and it is getting available. Hurray! Let’s move the circular economy forward.

Dive deeper into the comparison between centralized IT, blockchain, and autonomous IT.

In the white paper of circular service platform, the hardware of the platform by itself is not taken into account for the circular design principles. Why not? I do believe that the business- and token model of the Threefold Grid will fit perfectly for the circular design principles.

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

Ellen McArthur

Keep your goals for yourself

Derek Sivers explains why keeping your goals for yourself is an effective mindset. And perhaps he is right. First act, then talk is the mantra within Threefold Network. Read what is said about Threefold in this article: the internet requires too many gatekeepers. Making it self-driving might be closer than we think.

Start to align your goals with the opportunities of a decentralized digital infrastructure. Value propositions to connect to Threefold Network will follow soon.

Goals become actions, actions become results.

Brian TRacy

Code Is Law

Code impacts our life and society; it is professor Lawrence Lessig who introduced the saying “Code is law”. Our democratic society has to integrate new organizational thinking and responsibilities. The following questions for each code design are relevant:

1. How is code introduced? Who is involved?
2. How is code implemented?
3. How are the coded rules controlled?

Within Threefold Network each code design is associated with ‘a smart contract for IT’. ‘The smart contract for IT’ defines responsibilities for people involved and makes people accountable. How does it work?

Step 1: IT experts creates code which and offers it to the TFF grid to get approved before it is deployed for users.
Step 2: a dedicated person prepare the code for step 3
Step 3: the code is offered to a smart contract on the blockchain
Step 4: a dedicated person / team reviews the code and create consensus before it is deployed.
Step 5: the code is deployed on the Threefold grid after consensus of step 4 and gets available for users.

The times they are a’ changin …
‘The smart contract for IT’ opens up the innovation space to redefine participation, responsibility and accountability for the digital age.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

Co-Design with new perspectives

The digital infrastructure with MyData – and blockchain principles bring along new design opportunities, opportunities within step 4, 5 and 6 of the extended Danish Design Ladder. Weconomics supports the learning process and organizations can be part of the journey.

Organisations can bring in challenges for the program – ‘Digital leadership and blockchain’. Find more information about the program here and offer your challenge here (Dutch only). Call me with your questions at 00 32 (0) 472 29 15 34.

Designing is about specifics. Unlike science or even art, which both deal meanly in abstraction, design brings the focus of our attention to the concrete.

Fred Collopy

Google and Belgian Economics

Read the article on the Google Europe blog of 2012: Honoring and Supporting Belgian Internet Pioneers. What a strange story is told about the hyperlink and the Mundaneum Museum in Mons. Mons is the city of Elio Di Rupo, he is proud about Mundaneum and the Google link. Google has a data center near Mons. It seems that a dance is danced.

Elio Di Rupo served as our prime minister in the dawn of internet times. With his link to Google, he refers to the beginning of the industrial age. Once the South of Belgium, Wallonia, was ‘The Silicon Valley’. You need also go to Wallonia to learn about the fight against big capital, the fight for distributed prosperity thanks to the industrial revolution.

Does history repeat itself ? Yes and No.
Breaking up big tech is on the political agenda today. But that’s not the full solution. Core components of the internet need a redesign to guarantee net neutrality. Because only with free and conscience minds, we will move forward thanks to the knowledge and creativity we have. And it won’t be reached by breaking up big tech.

Data ownership and governance needs good design from day one. Join the growing entrepreneurial movement that is working on it, when your time is right. The threefold token distribution event will be an opportunity to participate, it is a part of the funding mechanism of Threefold.

Google still used the typical funding mechanism of the industrial age. But it won’t serve for our next age. We are keen to share the design options for funding Threefold are taking and you will get the opportunity to join as Threefold token holder. Be welcome in Bolwerk to learn and ask your questions – event date will be announced.

You've go to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all small things go in the right direction.

Alvin Toffler

Weconomics Congress 26-11-2019 – Theater Perron 3 – Rosmalen (NL)

Co:Inpetto is partner of Weconomics Foundations. A goal of Weconomics is to share knowledge and co-design for our next level of prosperity. A next congress can be announced for the 26th of Novembre at Theater Perron 3 in Rosmalen (The Netherlands) – more information (dutch only for the moment). See you there ?

Work Less. Achieve More.

More than 30% of all the work has to do with control. Bookkeepers check numbers, managers control processes, teachers and caretakers go crazy with all mandatory reports and we all receive more and more emails and information to which we have to respond. Automation has made checking easier, but it didn’t reduce complexity. All we do is creating a digital bureaucracy. Every time new compliance obligations nullify productivity and therefore prosperity growth and cause great annoyance in many jobs. The good news is that there is a solution. Because with modern organization technology it is possible to organize much office work, substantially more efficiently with much less waste. A 30-hour workweek is not an utopia, but becomes reality. This allows us to solve problems in care, education and safety. Responsible administrators, politicians, managers and professionals must be aware of this.

Paul Bessems, Founder of Weconomics Foundations

Token Economics and Community Building

A way to distribute Threefold tokens is investigated and prepared. With Threefold tokens, you buy compute and storage capacity. And since 3bot lives on the Threefold grid, Threefold tokens will be useful for every single person. If and only if … more and more organizations will adopt 3bot to interact with their members in their eco-system.

Learning and designing for the value proposition for token distribution is going on: an IEO (initial exchange offer) as a format is in consideration (more about IEO), an ICO (initial coin offer) was previously avoided.

Getting the value proposition for tokens distribution right is the clover model of New Business Models is in action (see picture below). Join the Freeflowpages group if you want to follow-up the work in progress here, every Tuesday at 6.30 PM, there is a zoom call.

There is no FOMO (= fear of missing out) needed. Every single person will get the opportunity to invest by buying threefold tokens. The final value proposition will get announced broadly later this year. For evaluating the value proposition, you need to understand the problem that Threefold is solving and how the Threefold network is evolving. We will be keen to answer your questions.

55 Broadway, London’s first skyskraper is for sale

London’s first skyscraper was built as the Headquater of the world’s first metro system. Thanks to the Hidden London initiative I have visited it. Hilarious. It is the building for the kind of organizations that the new modernity at that time brought: a whole hierarchy for the administrative and management support to get the machines in the Underground running. Fit for purpose – the big thinking … (:

The organization of offices follows the principles of hierarchy... each lower office is under control and supervision of a higher one.

Max Weber

While the information flows for running the Underground needed a hierarcy for efficiency, the decentralized digital infrastructure brings the organizational networks along. Within Threefold digital infrastructure each individual will get its own 3bot to manage production, consumption and much more.

55 Broadway is for sale …. ! Surprised ?