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Offer
Networks:
a new paradigm
for developing an intelligent sharing economy
An International Workshop
organized by the Global Brain Institute (GBI)
December 4,
2015
at the Free University of
Brussels (VUB)
Website:
http://globalbraininstitute.github.io/onet/
(workshop)
http://globalbraininstitute.org (organizers)
This informal meeting is intended to
introduce and discuss a very recently formulated new vision of the
future sharing economy. An offer network is a universal ICT platform
through which people could formulate which goods, services or
information they either need or are willing to offer, under which
conditions. AI algorithms then try to optimally match offer and
demand, taking into account conditions, preferences, and general
efficiency. This facilitates trade, but also sharing, gifts, volunteer
work, peer-to-peer collaboration, and exchanges that do not involve
money. As the system becomes more intelligent and more people start to
use it, it may be able to transform our present market economy into a
"collaborative commons". This would greatly reduce poverty,
inequality and negative externalities, while boosting abundance,
sustainability, resilience and well-being.
The workshop will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, in room M015 (Building M, street level), on Friday, December 4, 2015.
Free access!
Program
10:00 - 11:00: Francis Heylighen (GBI):
Towards an Intelligent Network for Matching Offer and Demand: from the
sharing economy to the Global Brain
11:00 - 11:30: Discussion
11:00 - 11:30: Discussion
11:30 - 12:00: Jean-François Noubel
(Collective Intelligence Research Institute): Ceptr:
Building a Semantic, Mashable, Fully Decentralized Internet (topic
to be confirmed)
12:00 - 12:45: Cadell Last (GBI):
Exploring the Global Commons
12:15 - 13:15: Discussion
12:15 - 13:15: Discussion
Lunch in VUB restaurant
14:15 - 15:15: Ben Goertzel (Artificial
General Intelligence Society): Transitioning to a Post-Employment,
Post-Scarcity, Post-Money Economy in Which Collective Human and
Machine Meaning Making Reigns
15:15 - 15:45: Discussion
Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00: Viktoras Veitas
(GBI): Bootstrapping a GBI Open Value Network
17:00 - 18:30: General discussion: how can
we best collaborate on implementing this vision?
Bibliography
Goertzel, B. (2015). Beyond Money: Offer networks, a potential
infrastructure for a post-money economy. In B. Goertzel & T.
Goertzel (Eds.), The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and
Economy on the Brink of the Singularity (pp. 522-549). Humanity+
Press. Retrieved from
http://globalbraininstitute.github.io/onet/files/offer_networks.pdf
Heylighen, F. (2016). Towards an Intelligent Network for Matching
Offer and Demand: from the sharing economy to the Global Brain.
Technological Forecasting & Social Change, in press. Retrieved
from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/GB-OfferNetwork.pdf or
http://globalbraininstitute.github.io/onet/files/GB-OfferNetwork.pdf
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
