Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday December 4 , 10h-18h30 Place: *M015 , VUB* ------------------------------ *Offer Networks:* *a new paradigm for developing an intelligent sharing economy* An International Workshop organized by the Global Brain Institute (GBI) ------------------------------ *Website*:* http://globalbraininstitute.github.io/onet/ <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 11:30 - 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 *Lunch in VUB restauran*t 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 *Dec. 11 * Mark Burdick *The World Wide Lab: Studying Self-Organization Using Digital Social Science * *Dec. 18 * Jos Jacobs *Chaos and Order * See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
