Polis — community of communities

Universal Basic Income for Bali Research Report

Polis is excited to announce a collaboration between Circles, Memri & Polis in publishing this Universal Basic Income for Bali research report exploring the implementation of Circles UBI in Bali.

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Tutorial: Introduction to renderers

This article introduces various renderers that you can use while writing cvu to render data and how to use them with code examples.

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A dive into SubViews

This article introduces the SubView element of the CVU language and shows how the recursion it provides can be used.

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Tutorial: A single item view

In this article you will learn to create a view for a single data item using the CVU language by creating a view that renders a note with a rich text editor.

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CVU Developer tools

Every language has a learning curve, and even though the CVU language is much simpler than using HTML and CSS, there is still new things to know. In order to

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Cascading views

This article walks you through what "cascading" in cascading views actually means and how it empowers users to control their user interface.

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Tutorial: A list view for notes

In this article you will learn the basic concepts in the CVU language by creating a view that renders a list of notes in the memri browser.

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Co-create the interface you spend your life in!

What if your data, now mined by others, would be in your own hands instead?

Governance

How we incorporate a democratic organization

In this post we describe our process for incorporating a democratic organization. What requirements we have, and what we learned from our research thus far!

Nangu

Uncle Nawm’s community forest in Thailand

The story and lessons of a community in Thailand that fought to establish community forests in a monocrop desert.

Governance

New year, New Stakeholder groups!

We've been working on identifying and defining the different stakeholder groups within Polis for quite some time. While working on this we realized that identifying Stakeholder groups is not so hard. The hard part is defining the different rights these groups have.

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Navdanya - Biodiversity heroes of India

Navdanya is an Indian organization that promotes seed diversity conservation, ecological farming and fair trade. They have established a network of almost 3 million farmers across India and a world reputation for standing against biotech giants and GMO seeds.

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Lessons from an educational rebel

Lessons from an inspiring Indian activist and community leader who believes in self directed education at the service of community and nature.

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Introducing Nangu - Growing a forest to call home

The world is on the brink of climatic catastrophe. The industrial food system is undermining our very subsistence by cutting forests, degrading arable land and poisoning the water. Fortunately there is a way to revert the damage, regenerate our forests, produce healthy food and care for the people.

Foodforest

What 40 years of agroforestry experience looks like

Project report: Visit to an amazing food forest project in Borneo led by Willie Smits

Polis

Introducing Polis

The world's next prevalent economic and governance system is sprouting from the current one. With Polis we are helping its evolution along by providing methods, tools and funding to enable an ecosystem of distributed, self-governing organizations that prioritize people and planet over profit.

Blockchain

Identities in a Web of Trust

Democratic decision making requires that each person is assigned the same voting power. Such a system is vulnerable to people impersonating multiple voters. We are developing a decentralized system to guarantee the singularity of voters, while ensuring the privacy of their personal information.

Artificial Intelligence

Image recognition without disclosing your data

Privately training CNNs using the SPDZ protocol and how to reduce the required amount of communication.

Economic Modeling

Universal Basic Income, Demurrage, the Money Supply and Price Levels

We present relationships and insights for the key economic model inputs UBI, Demurrage and Price.

Economic Modeling

A Reading List

Here's a guide to help wade through the material created to date for economic-modeling.

Economic Modeling

Model Dynamics: 100 versus 1000 agent networks

We compare and contrast our economic model using networks consisting of 100 and 1000 agents.

Economic Modeling

Model Dynamics And The "Liquidity" Situation - An Analysis

We present the results of our initial economic simulations and the model dynamics they exhibit.

Economic Modeling

The Economic Model (V1.0)

We present in detail the first version of our economic model and its application to simulate commerce on a trusted network.

Economic Modeling

The "Liquidity" Situation

We define the "Liquidity" situation and how it can impact commerce on a trusted network employing transitive-transactions.

Economic Modeling

The Networks

We present the base network models we use in our economic modeling of transitive transaction on trusted networks.

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