I agree with your comments we “really want and need many different types of decentralised data networks with different features to meet different needs" as per the data storage or computationally focused e.g’s you gave.
I don’t fully understand conceptually/operationally what is required (org & tech) to underpin/deliver a “true decentralised price network which enables automatic price seeking on a global flat playing field” . The thoughts/words safe data commons (to create a level playing field) and safe data marketplace (to efficiently connect a resource with a need with a flat playing field) immediately come to mind. To me they describe some of the critical design concepts /operational components (i.e. a non-extractive data exchange/default progressive expenditure reduction efficiencies (DPER) methodology) which could be necessary to deliver to a level playing field/automatic pricing/model/true decentralised price seeking networks model.
Are there any decentralised marketplace-exchange types/benchmarks which we can learn from for a safe data commons/marketplace level playing field/automatic pricing vision? The farthest along the path (in understanding) and best benchmark and I have found is the Ocean protocol blockchain initiative described as a Decentralised Data Exchange protocol to unlock data for AI. In their data marketplace challenge initiative they ask the question … What type of data marketplace could you build? … and describe a number of different types of possible
- a marketplace for buying & selling data at a fixed price
- a marketplace tuned to a specific vertical, e.g. energy, supply chain data, etc.
- a marketplace with rich features for discovery, including browsing, search, tagging, and filtering;
- a marketplace with novel pricing strategies. e.g. royalties for value added, auction model; a data marketplace that emphasizes adding value to data. e.g. add labels to unlabeled data, data cleaning, feature engineering on datasets.
This begs the question … what would a safe data marketplace look like and what should it do? What sort of world do we want a safe commons/marketplace to help create? Where/How could we start/evolve to the “ true decentralised price seeking networks” ideal?
Rivkin’s Guardian article talks about the radical new economic “collaborative commons” system that will emerge from the collapse of capitalism. The transition to a post capitalism, prosumer (vs consumer capitalism) model is based around the transition to near zero marginal cost of production. Rifkin says “it’s going to transform our way of life fundamentally over the coming years,” It already is; we just haven’t framed it.” Given the safenetwork promise to enable a new digital economic system, what sort of safe data commons/marketplace model & functionality will best support this margin reduction transition and equitable redistribution outcome?
In a marketplace where the “extraordinary pace of innovation in energy, communication and transport” is driving the marginal cost of production down, “time based human resource allocation optimisation” or “care capacity” increasingly becomes the critical factor. Care Capacity Management involves mapping the product ecosystem to use the data for decision making to optimise time based resource allocation to specific product or acuity standards/outcomes … so much more specific and leveraged to pre-defined outcomes “an extension of the vertical supply chain ” Ocean Protocol examples!! This can be applied to health, education, IOT i.e. anything which involves people resourcing. The best Care capacity application I have seen which we can learn from is in Health and more specifically Nursing delivery of patient acuity outcomes. Given nursing accounts for 70% of the public system hospital cost and demonstrable cost reductions of 20% plus so this could is a pretty good place to start with an application of safe.
With @happybeing’s help I am trying to learn how to set up a dweb commons blog site. The blog describes a possible safe.commons, data marketplace model as a starting point for further discussion. I have agreed with Mark to write a dWeb blog article about my experience in setting up the dweb commons (blog) so others can learn from it. The further intention of the article is to promote the dWeb blog and incorporate links to the tech (as it evolves/simplifies) as part of the dweb commons operating procedure to secure a “Commons Data Council” Quality Business Operating System (CDC QBOS) product accessible via the site. The objective is to enable self-organising citizens, Community or industries to access, customise deploy their own “CDC QBOS” Data Council product (ultimately ISO quality approved). incorporating a across the safenetwork. The data council objective is to provide a level playing field/automatic pricing/model for community members to access their own Care Capacity system based on their own Council defined standards to support transition to the Rivkin post capitalism model.
The CDC QBOS system is being designed around an existing ISO Approved Quality management system and templated Data Council governance system which has already been implemented in a specific industry with a national mandate. The framework basically exists supported by a project office to sit behind the dweb/safe.commons to manage documentation and deployment, so business systems not a big step… just add the tech . Next step for me is the try and learn how to set up a dweb site which is pretty scary for a tech neanderthal 
and a better understanding of a true decentralised price network requirements