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REA learning material trove
- The 10,000ft Overview
- History
- REA: The Theory
- ValueFlows: The Protocol
- Open Source Implementations
- ValueFlows-compatible apps
- Applying the model
- Case studies
- Visions of the future
- Documentation and guides
- Example data
- Related works
- Communities to connect with
- The official ValueFlows site details the protocol & conceptual overview as well as some examples and use-cases.
- What is REA? on the REA Technology website provides a good overview from a business perspective, though some terminology is outdated.
- The P2P Foundation wiki page on REA
- A recorded ValueFlows information session from the inaugral Scuttlebutt camp (audio, 42min)
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Chronology of events in
rea-app
wiki (most material also linked on this page) - Mikorizal's 3.5 paths to the future
- Bill McCarthy's seminal paper that defines REA
- McCarthy's other early papers on the REA theoretical model
- Bob Haugen & Bill McCarthy evolve the application of REA to internet supply chains
- Expanding REA to cover ad-hoc networks of external economic entities
- REA as a foundation for business modelling
- April 2019 deep dive on ValueFlows protocol (video, 2hrs)
- ValueFlows RDF grammar
- ValueFlows GraphQL reference spec (includes visual schema browser)
These are public domain systems which implement the ValueFlows protocol.
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Django (Sensorica NRP)
- See also these forks: OCP, FreedomCoop, LearnDeep
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Holochain (HoloREA)
- Module breakdown
- Prototype demo (video)
- Scuttlebutt (
economic-sentences-graphql
) - Solid (SolidBase)
- Older list of apps in the VF wiki
- https://www.workday.com/
- http://www.fifthseasoncoop.com/
- Quick Response Engine, the original prototype built by @bhaugen at Bosch. Featured realtime material requirements planning and immediate interactive trouble-shooting of problems.
https://openfoodnetwork.org/ also deserves an honourable mention, as it is an REA-like system.
These are things that REA accounting can be applied in order to achieve. In most cases there are real case studies to support these theories; others are as yet untested.
Open networks of contributors co-creating value, pioneered by Sensorica.
- Fantastic definition of OVNs on the ValueNetwork wiki
- Open Value Networks: A Third Coasian Alternative to Firms and Markets (slides)
One possible model for determining exchange rates and value equivalence in REA systems, designed by @fosterlynn for Sensorica NRP.
- NRP value equation concepts and tutorial
- NRP round trip for value creation and reward
- Deep dive into the value equation algorithm
A technique for balancing supply & demand to avoid overproduction.
- How the signals used by capitalist supply chains could serve a mutual coordination economy (article)
- Dependent Demand - a Business Pattern for Balancing Supply and Demand (paper)
- Automatic always up-to-date accounting
- Ethics equations (video, 45min)
- Local economic development case studies
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Sensorica: the world's first Open Value Network
- on what it means (video, 18min)
- on how it works (video, 19min)
- Sensorica proposal to develop a recycling economy in Montreal
- P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival (report)
- Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting (report)
- Accounting for a New Economy (article)
- Accounting for good: Ending money and creating resilient communities (slides & notes)
- The uneasy transition from supply chains to ecosystems: the value creation / value capture dilemma (paper)
- A minimal bottom-up P2P economic system (document)
- ValueFlows as an economic sentence structure, and possible UI/UX to fit
- Sensorica's OVN 3.0 proposal and technical designs
- Sensorica NRP training slides:
- start with the overview
- and then the one about configuration
- and then follow your nose from there.
Some REA-based systems feature publicly available datasets which can be used on other platforms, especially at the Recipe and Knowledge layers.
- Sensorica:
- Types of resources traded in Sensorica's contributory economy
- A recipe for building a wind turbine
- A budgeting process
- ...and many more!
These projects have no official affiliation with REA accounting or the ValueFlows protocol, but have been explored in the context of REA and could provide mutually beneficial features.
- Conversations for Action- a structured grammar for forming agreements (possible revisions)
- Compositional smart contracts: creating composable legal frameworks
- General overview from Microsoft (paper)
- Compositional contract specification for REA (paper)
- Structured REA contracts (paper)
- The MetaIntegral impact assessment framework are actively exploring ways to derive their qualitative metrics from quantitative REA data
- Kinpesa: a system for building reciprocity games outlines a framework for an abundance economy based on gifting, which focuses on de-leveraging debt and could be built on top of REA data
- A great list of value accounting initiatives
- Official ValueFlows chat group
- The
#valueflows
channel on Scuttlebutt - The HoloREA project section on the Holochain forum