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People naturally exchange more easily with communities they know. A parent who earns credit by babysitting would love to spend it on tutoring for her own child, but only if the two communities recognize each other. Rings of Trust are designed to make that recognition explicit and voluntary: User Groups choose to cooperate, define their own terms within the WikiDeal framework, and nothing is imposed from above. As Rings multiply, a complementary economy grows organically around real needs.

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* [[#what-is-a-ring|What is a Ring?]]

* [[#coefficients|Usage coefficients: 1 to 10]]

* [[#interoperability|Karma token interoperability]]

* [[#no-self-generation|No self-generation of Karma tokens]]

* [[#roles|Who does what]]

* [[#examples|Examples of Rings]]

* [[#programmes|Rings and Programmes]]

* [[#governance|Rings of Trust in WikiDeal governance]]

* [[#state-of-the-art|State of the art]]

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== Rings of Trust in WikiDeal governance ==

In the envisaged governance structure, Rings of Trust would form the middle governance level, analogous to the [[wikipedia:Cantons_of_Switzerland|Swiss cantons]], between the User Groups (the communes) and the global governance (the Confederation). WikiDeal's governance is intended as a hybrid of three proven sources: the open, wiki-style rule-making of [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] and the [[wikipedia:Free_software_movement|free software movement]], the at-cost financial management and user ownership of [[wikipedia:Cooperative|cooperatives]], and the Swiss practice of collegial executives at every level, elected by an assembly of delegates. The full model is described on the [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Governance|Governance]] page.

== State of the art ==

Inter-group trust agreements relate to decades of research on social networks, social capital and computational trust. The references below situate Rings of Trust in that literature.

* Mark Granovetter (1973), ''The Strength of Weak Ties'', American Journal of Sociology, 78(6): [https://doi.org/10.1086/225469 doi:10.1086/225469] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties interpersonal ties on Wikipedia].

* James S. Coleman (1988), ''Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital'', American Journal of Sociology, 94: [https://doi.org/10.1086/228943 doi:10.1086/228943] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital social capital on Wikipedia].

* Audun Jøsang, Roslan Ismail and Colin Boyd (2007), ''A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision'', Decision Support Systems, 43(2): [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2005.05.019 doi:10.1016/j.dss.2005.05.019].

* Philip Zimmermann (1995), ''The Official PGP User's Guide'', MIT Press, origin of the web of trust model: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust web of trust on Wikipedia] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy Pretty Good Privacy].

* Francis Fukuyama (1995), ''Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'', Free Press: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama author page on Wikipedia].

'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:Economy/Karma-Tokens|Karma tokens]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|12 Programmes]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:User Groups|User Groups]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Calls:Main|Open Call Guide]]

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