Trust group
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A trust group is a group of people, called members, who all trust each other to a certain degree across a particular spectrum of resource access and responsibility. This division of responsibility will often divide membership into distinct categories which get given names like roles, departments or divisions. The most fundamental distinction between kinds of members is into those who are engaged in the groups governance aspects and those who are involved in a passive observational sense such as subscribers of a newsletter or RSS feed.
A trust group can engage in organisational activity by the members working to an agreed upon system, and it can form into a formal entity which can own or access resource, contain private and public information and trade with other entities.
People can be members of many trust-groups, and trust groups can be arranged into a hierarchy of sub-groups, for example by organising the trust group into departments and roles, or by creating sub-groups to manage particular projects of that are particular interest to or supported by only certain members.
- the willingness of one party (trustor) to rely on the actions of another party (trustee);
- reasonable expectation (confidence) of the trustor that the trustee will behave in a way beneficial to the trustor;
- risk of harm to the trustor if the trustee will not behave accordingly; and
- the absence of trustor's enforcement or control over actions performed by the trustee. [more]
All the trust-groups together comprise an important aspect of the platform network, which is a network formed from bottom up-organisations that incorporate trust relationships and allows the members to leverage their potential in a reliable way. All the trust groups listed in this site are aligned with OrganicDesign.
Trust-groups can be formalised into single entities that can trade, own property or control accounts. The type of entity best suited to such a group is a trust. Trusts can be created purely out of contracts formed between the members of the trust-group.
Group direction and governance
For the group to be able to achieve the goals stated in its shared vision, there must be a system in place. The foundation of a system is to define the direction and management roles and the methods and tools of governance.
In groups that make use of crowd-sourcing of skills and resources it can become difficult to ascertain which members are involved in the collaboration and to what extent. This becomes of particular concern when it concerns the allocation equity, and can be extremely difficult to assess when some of the roles contributions are intangibles. In general this can be made a lot clearer and tidier by all members maintaining good logging of activities and relationships consistently.
Physical network (notes to merge here)
A physical network is a network consisting of people, venues and schedules and forms part of the platform specification. Modern groupware software allows schedules to be associated not only with people, but also with groups of people, venues or other bookable resources to organise things like car-pooling or book borrowing.
By combining such a scheduling/booking solution with basic routing technology used in networking and with a basic organisation/workflow system makes it possible to add the bookable resources into the schedules of people or venues. For example a meeting of a group of people may be organised on their group schedule at a particular venue and time along with some other resources such as a projector and some specified documentaries on DVD. Since the network knows in advance what resources need to be present at what locations and when they need to be there, it can advise participants of the meeting and owners of the resources of what they should take with them and give to whom as they move between the various venues in the network.
If exchange of memory sticks and other removable media are included in this physical networking layer, then the idea can be applied further to form an automated system of distributed backup and updating of knowledge and software packages.
Ideally the interface for this functionality would be a simple case of dragging and dropping resources into a venues schedule, or visa versa, dropping a venue into a resource's schedule.
In some cases there are conflicts or ambiguities such as when a resource is already booked our for the time-slot you drop it into a venue at, or there are a number of instances of a given resource available for the time-slot. In such cases a group decision is required which is another aspect of the platform specification
See also
- Trust groups in this site - all these trust groups are aligned with OrganicDesign
- Tonika - social routing with organic security
- Ripple monetary system
