Center for Adventure Economics

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The Center for Adventure Economics at CouchSurfing.
"Radical vision and running code."
— econometrics — trust and reputation systems — free life —

We coin the term adventure economy to refer to a gift economy that is pay-forward, in-person, global and among strangers. In any economy, there are challenges in allocating resources effectively and avoiding abuse, but these are of special concern in non-market economies among strangers, where we don't have the information mechanisms of the price system ([1], [2]) nor of social relations, and we are also missing the risk-reduction mechanisms of contracts. In this group we develop the allocation and risk-reduction mechanisms for CouchSurfing, an adventure economy.

Contents

Basics

Initiatives

  • The Adventure Economy Portal: building a gateway for those who wish to participate in the adventure economy
  • Trust API: providing a standard way for sites featuring trust and references to export those so that a persons trustworthiness can be evaluated in other projects
  • Opportunity API: providing standard search and aggregation mechanisms for (person, place, time, activity) tuples
  • Adventure econometrics: measuring the health of adventure economies
  • Random Action: a proposed companion site to couchsurfing that's all about random acts of kindness, and raokserver, the software that will run the site and provide add'l features for CouchSurfing as well

CouchSurfing-specific Groups

Conferences to attend

See also

Drafts

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