[epic] Diginomics v1

[rufuspollock]

A diginomics site providing grounding in economics of digital (info) economy and toolkit (concepts and templates) for solving key micro and macro challenges.

Roadmap

• [ ] EF Report summary
• [ ] #72
• [ ] EF Full report
• [ ] Website v1 especially landing page and about page
• [ ] Micro guide
• [ ] Macro guide #macro
• [ ] Mastery program
• [ ] Leaders program

Roadmap 2023-05-07

• [ ] #72
  • [ ] Email sequence
  • [x] Landing page ✅2023-05-08
  • [x] Create the email course https://github.com/life-itself/diginomics/issues/86
• [ ] Diginomics for policy makers
  • [ ] GOAL: a landing page and offer
• [ ] Desigining business models guide landing page
• [ ] Tidy up the overall epic https://github.com/life-itself/diginomics/issues/19

Additional content

• [x] SCQA for switch to diginomics.io from open revolution ✅2023-04-28 reviewed and posted 💬2023-04-27 draft done. Rufus reviewed and refactored and now 👌
• [x] Why diginomics for the world (and for specific users) draft done and PR created here: https://github.com/life-itself/diginomics/pull/78 ✅2023-05-03 Rufus merged.
  • [ ] ⏭️ could be a few tweaks e.g. on headings, date etc (see comments)
• [ ] What other stuff can we publish especially that is landing page like
• [x] https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/8m8655SJ8QY - finish tidying and back blog a jan 2022 brainstorm 🚧2023-05-02 - theo has PR. ⏭️ refactor diagram a bit more and move into obsidian/excalidraw
• [x] https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/6xjBMG21Oz7 - baking bread one 🚧2023-05-03 needs a bit more tidying. Theo has PR in for adding but with raw svg.
• [ ] Taxonomy v2 - https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/7Wki2pRuUYh

Vision

Have the following guides / courses:

• [ ] Diginomics 101 "Learn the Rules of the Digital Economy" #72 - https://coggle.it/diagram/ZD5u1yHgHRe83f1v/t/diginomics-101
• [ ] "Micro" guide: Guide to designing business models for sustaining data sharing in X area (e.g. carbon data) - https://coggle.it/diagram/ZDUQAUGwolWedD7a/t/designing-business-models-for-diginomics-101-subtree-here #70
  • [ ] Will the EF one be better? and in what way?
• [ ] "Macro" guide Diginomic Policy aka Designing Digital Economies #71
• [ ] Howtos for particular issues e.g. addressing tech monopolies. (cf https://rufuspollock.com/fixing-facebook/)
  • [ ] Choosing a business model in 10m (rather than the full build up) 💬2023-04-18 That's what people want ... The whole background theory can be an appendix or more in depth guide

graph LR

101[Diginomics 101]

101 --> busmodelsforgood["Micro: Design Business Models for a Public Interest Digital Goods like Database"]

101 --> digpolicy[Macro: Diginomic Policy - how to design digital economies that work]

101 --??--> busmodelsforopen["Micro: Using Diginomics to Create Open Business Models ..."]

Scaling from a single good to the entire economy

Note that the guides cover various scales:

• Individual database / good
• Ecosystem
• Entire economy or economy sector

These aren't perfect separations and each scale blends into the one above and below.

Principles

• Ship 🚢: do the minimal thing that is shippable and ship it
• Share for feedback: How can we ship fast and get feedback. Can be from anyone … Data helps us shape what we do

Tasks (Inbox to process)

• [x] Motivation for doing the project ✅2023-01-19 detailed SCQH in A10
• [ ] Prep 🚧2023-01-19 80%
  • [x] A10 booted ✅2023-01-06
  • [x] #37
  • [x] Overall content DB with notes @theo-cox Draft done, to be supplemented by @rufuspollock personal content. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-MOMpNckbP8OPopHm73Bqsswcs8-5pL1Efqo0-27nuQ/edit#gid=513593847
  • [x] #29
• [ ] Case studies: ideas for case studies
• [ ] Page for each “model type” #22
• [ ] Evaluation criteria / objective function: what are you optimising and why you care about access and producer income and they are in tension
• [ ] Write up what we have achieved in last 3m
• [ ] Names for key models
  • [ ] Building blocks and the optins for them
  • [ ] Funding: who pays and how
  • [ ] Access: who gets to use and how
  • [ ] Allocation mechanism: who gets paid and how
  • [ ] Ownership and governance: who runs things
  • [ ] Why they are the main options
• [ ] Post our scqa / issue tree stuff #37

Minor

• [ ] Bonus: add to "comparison against existing model" labels image / table

Content

• [x] Sketch questions
• [x] Answer first set of questions @theo-cox Done: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aykkuQvbDmdmUHXclAZdl96a7U3G1LLxWisOy5-b2OQ/edit#
• [ ] Taxonomy of models #22
• [ ] Landing page
  • [ ] Sketch out motivation 🚧2023-01-09 ...

Website

• [x] Upgrade to Flowershow #12
• [ ] Refactor current open revolution content from root to a subsection
• [x] Research repo content integrated #6

About page aka Overview of initiative

• [ ] Clarify if overview of this "renewal" or of Diginomics as a whole (or both)
• [ ] SCQH
• [ ] Turn into prose
• [ ] Decide whether to include coggle
• [ ] Add a picture

Notes

• [x] do i create a separate project for diginomics or put into community repo? ✅2023-01-09 create own project - migrate old content
• [x] Do i start a new site or refactor openrevolution ✅2023-01-09 refactor existing site
  • [x] if refactor where does open rev content go ✅2023-01-09 move open revolution to /open-revolution/ or similar. most other stuff is common
• [x] What domain do we use? e.g. diginomics, openrevolution.net, lifeitself.org/diginomics (or subdomain)
  • [x] do we have own domain? ✅2023-01-09 distinctive enough from life itself stuff generally that a separate domain and its own url e.g. diginomics is warranted (shorter, more distinctive etc)
  • [x] do we use openrevolution.net? ✅2023-01-09 no because it is too associated with specific vision rather than a general toolkit
  • [x] what domain do we get? 🚧2023-01-09 options are diginomics.io or ...?
• [x] How much effort on "clarifying" old content? 2h / 2d / 2w? ✅2023-01-09 focus on on new toolkit and pull info for that. Rufus: my sense is this is not that important actually. more important to get the new content out there and that provides a structure for looking at old stuff (if we look at all)
  • [x] Where would general "stuff" go in the new site? ✅2023-01-09 in our digital garden/notebook in /notes/ folder

Job stories for Taxonomy and Building Blocks

• Why do I want a model list? ✅ To have a menu to choose from.
• Why do i want a menu to choose from? Because i want to decide how to generate revenue/value from/for my project?
• Why do i want revenue/value from my project? Because it costs substantial money/effort to create
• But isn’t “stuff just created for free” in open source world? No, see answer XXX
• Why do I want a taxonomy? ✅ To help choose from the menu (given my wants and constraints)
• What are the dimensions?
  • Openness
  • Form of remuneration
  • Source
  • Allocation mechanism

When I'm doing mechanism/business model design for data sharing, I want to easily understand what options are out there, how they relate to one another and how to choose between them so that I can select the most suitable one and justify my choice to external stakeholders.

Brainstorm

There also convincing people there are only these kinds of options People often imagine there is some other magical tweak out there that will get them X or Y. Example of AT&T and long distance phone lines and showing a lower bound on distance to connect 3 dots

Remuneration rights is the model Building blocks are:

• Open license
• Public funding via tax/levy
• Value based allocation mechanism

[theo-cox]

@rufuspollock have created stubs for each model type (reduced to 5) although I forgot to do pull requests for a couple. I'll do an overview page tomorrow

[rufuspollock]

@theo-cox did you get to the overview page in the end?

[theo-cox]

No I got too hung up on how to do a nice diagram and forgot my own principle of just shipping stuff. I'll do this week. I've also decided I want to split conditional payments into separate prizes and RRs pages after all...

[rufuspollock]

• Tweak Data is Different summary
• Tweak building blocks in line with https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/AS49XMqTYbf
  • Question re governance: how complex do we get. can flag you can get into much more detail. But roughly there is "for profit" company and there is non-profit and coop (owned by stakeholders and sort of for profit)
• Writing up each model ...

[theo-cox]

Agreed next actions 11/04/2023

Process notes out of today’s meeting (if possible) Update the building blocks Revenue model User fees Upfront funding Open / free Maybe explain open as slightly different from free. E.g. youtube largely free, but not open … Complementary goods to anything Blending Add complementary goods to anything Mixed open licensing Non-commercial, other price discrimination How you can build your revenue model Sketch out decision trees …?? Diginomics 101 tweaking …