12 Dimensions/Contents

People

People with their social graphs and profiles. Objects of People are user profiles from different social graphs with extendable profile fields.

Data: User unique ID (e.g. WebID), user name, profile details, messaging space (e.g. inbox, wall), etc.

Actions: Send message, send object, ...

Relations: Each person contains also relational references to other persons (list of friends),
  as well relational references to other objects from other OMPlanet dimensions (e.g. Places, Events, etc.).

Services: might be necessary centralized functionalites of social networking for global user authentication, search for profiles, offline messaging.

Examples:

 • Federated social networks - StausNet, PeerSon, Diaspora, etc.
 • WebID - A way to uniquely identify a person, company, organization, or other agent using a URI.
 • OAuth - an open standard for authorization, allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists)

Groups

Dimension that holds objects which are representing different types of virtual or non-virtual groups or of people sharing common interests.

Data: E.g. groups representing workplace, college, virtual or real organisation, community, etc.

Relations: Each object contains also list of People objects as its members and
  possibly relations to other related objects (e.g. Services, Projects, Events, etc.)

Services:

Examples:

  • Virtual groups of people, social networks, discussion groups, forums, virtual games, etc. 
  • Non-virtual communities of people (sharing living or working space) - Global Ecovillage Network

Places

A place as a logical description of an area such as a park, university, organization, etc. (with or without geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude). POI specifications by W3C are preferred to be used to representation of the Places objects.

Places objects will enable users to instantly form communities based on location, to identify specific places and to provide location-based histories (such as every important event that occurred at a specific address).

Data: Description of the place of interest, information about its type, characteristics and the geo location data (longitude, latitude).

Relations: Events (event calendar of the place), Services (provided at the place), People (as members), etc.

Services: Web based maps with layers representing OMPlanet objects (Google Maps, Bing Mpas, etc.).

Examples: Google Places, Facebook Places

Events, Activities

For self-organized activities or events. People can publish real-time information about their current activity in their current location, initiate new activities, organize events or look for real-time events happening around them, or publish a demand for a specific type of event in a given area.

OMPlanet also provides distributed calendars to share and search events globally. hCalendar can be used as a simple, distributed calendaring and events format.

Data: Local Events, Concerts, Festivals, Workshops, Parties, etc. Past, present, upcoming.

Relations: 

Services: Services to publish events, register to an existing event or demand/propose future events.
  - Search for events by time, location, performer or descriptive keyword.
  - Alerts which automatically notify users when events matching their search criteria are added or modified.
  - Post feedback/question by People to past/upcoming events.
  - Events Calendar (Aggregation and user friendly visualization of selective calendars from the global calendar
  selected by a user according to his/her interests. subscription to such personalized views of calendars.) (e.g. Eventful)

Examples:

  • Eventful, Eventbright

Collective Actions

These are the instruments to bring participatory democracy. Place where multiple individuals can collectively vote and decide upon certain actions that the community might benefit, which, however, have an associated cost making it implausible that any one individually can or will undertake and solve it alone.

It can be only collection of votes to rise the public awareness or find consensus upon issues but not always the instruments to guarantee the complete realization of decisions.

Data: Action proposals, votes

Relations: Connection with People, Groups

Services: 

Examples:

  • Avaaz - connecting citizens to drive sustainable political decisions, etc.

Travel, Transport

Travel sharing, route sharing and planning. For example car charing on the go, with alerts on mobile devcies, can allow drivers to take travelers if destinations match. This can reduce the amount of cars driving 3/4 empty.

Data: Start point (Longitude, Latitude), Endpoint(Longitude, Latitude), Direction (NE,NW, etc.),
  Available Places(how many more can join), Means of Travel(Car, Bike, etc),
  Purpose of Travel(Description), Places to Visit(Places objects), Traveling People(People objects).

Relations: 

Services: 

Examples:

  • Travel sharing: GPS rout matches, etc.
  • Place-to-stay sharing: CouchSurfing, Airbnb
  • P2P Car Sharing: ...

Education

Here can fit the academic educational programs as well non-formal trainings and courses offered regularly or on-demand.

Data:

Relations: 

Services: 

Examples:

  • Learning and educational services: Moodle - open-source community-based tools for learning

Services

Service exchange markets. All kinds of services offered P2P, voluntary based or paid. The currency can be the real money, virtual currencies or the 'spend-time' as a currency unit.

Data: 

Relations:

Services: 

Examples:

  • Some professional services
  • Couch-sharing, garden-sharing, car-sharing, etc.: CouchSurfing, Hospitality Club, etc.
  • Community insurance: Friendsurance

Transparent Banks

Non-monetary value exchange, transparent and fair lending or currency exchange systems - with virtual, real or work-hours based currencies.

Peer-to-peer currencies have no central authority that issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the distributed network.

Such systems encourage people to work for friends and neighbours in local communities with fair and transparent value exchange, rather than working for banks and corporations driving the work of millions for the profits of few shareholders.

Data: 

Relations:

Services: 

Examples:

  • Digital currencies: Bitcoin, [Ripple]
  • Crowdfunding: ....
  • Peer to Peer lending, Microfinancing: KIVA
  • Community Powered Capital: VenCorps
  • Crowd funded mortgage: Crowdhyptheek
  • Folk Banks: WIR Bank, JAK Medlemsbank
  • Currency Management System (CMS)
  • The Visa card system designed by Dee Hock the revolutionary example of such an attempt
  • MonedaBcn, a social network created to build a social currency alternative to money in the area of Barcelona and surroundings.

- https://barcelona.ecoxarxes.cat/ Interest free, owned by members, all transactions are transparent and trackable. It is possible to use it for funding projects - projects can publish public list of needed recources and volunteers can donate and choose for what need their contribution is going to be used and track it.

Products

Free-markets of material goods. Data:

Relations:

Services: 

Examples:

  • Buyin, selling, exchanging: eBay, etc.
  • Democratizing 3D printing: Bits From Bytes

Digital Contents

A distributed World Wide Web: P2P file sharing, web contents shared in peer servers. Possibility to have also decentralized DNS systems, etc. This can enable censorship free Internet.

Data: Represents digital files that are stored locally with special access rules or distributed P2P and shared through network.

Relations:

Services:

Examples:

 • P2P file sharing, P2P hosting of web site contents.
 • Decentralized p2p based DNS systems: P2P-DNS
 • Personal Data Stores: Project Danube

Open Space

Undefined open dimensions....