Creating "Markets" to support "Network Ecosystem" facilitators ?

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

I want to understand how systems of abstract value creation related to intentional community building can be evaluated resource wise, or monetarily ( independently of direct monetary profit ).

The objective of such question is to find a way to increase visibility for the contributions of intentional community builders, and thinkers,

and enable them to legitimately claim support for their contributions,

as to enable them to support themselves while they "work on network ecosystem building"

Once such algorithms can be proposed, such visualisation could serve as a way to issue "support units" which could be used in,

for example, a mutual credit complementary currency related to the social networks they contribute to,

or exchange such units against mainstream monetary units from (micro) philanthropists.

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Cordially, Dante - http://hitchwiki.org/en/dante

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I am interested in understanding measurement tools for various evaluations of "value creation" in the field of ( collaborative ) "Network Ecosystems".

One way of evaluating what concerns less abstract spaces, such as "co-working spaces" ( Hacker spaces, Hubs, etc )

is through "membership fees".

But how to evaluate when supporting the development of network ecosystems becomes less obviously visible ?

How to visualise collaborative value creation , including what concerns "co-working spaces" ?

Is it possible to set a "monetary value" to it, in a similar way as one can set a monetary value to a website according to the way it is referenced and the number of users ?

What kind of algorithms, and what factors could be taken into account ?

I recently browsed these two links :

http://communitywiki.org/en/EcosystemOfNetworks

http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/15/diminishing-returns-of-collaboration/