Re:Xeer
by notahacker on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @02:13PM
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If I were to start a private mediation system in the West I'd probably want my brand image associated more with sophisticated private mediation systems that already help resolve disputes within Western law, and less towards village elders deciding the level of blood money a clan must pay to forestall future family feuds
"start a private mediation system in the West"
Oh, I may not have made that clear. I'd roll out outside the West and maybe enter the general US market, maybe not. The GDP of Africa as a continent is about $2T and growing relatively fast.
Social media / web blog / MMORPG code of conduct / Karma scheme / online digital currency / standards of behavior all belong here?
If, today, on eveonline, or any other mmorpg, enough people wanted to roll a system out for conflict resolution, well, here's a historical system thats known to work and be stable and well documented, or documented well enough anyway. It might actually transplant successfully.
Much as most social media is essentially workforce automation for grade school girl playground scale interpersonal relations, there are obvious startup opportunities to provide distributed worldwide mediation services using proven stable and successful historical techniques with a thin patina of CRUD web app and mobile phone data harvesting app smeared over it. Although this paragraph is hyper sarcastic its also serious, there are obvious startup opportunities for a proven stable and workable mediation system. Other than having problems educating the participants, I see no particular reason it couldn't scale worldwide for mediation. MaaS is Mediation as a Service? I suppose the startup would base their support call center in .so for obvious reasons? Its a very interesting idea and I'm almost sorry to state it publicly because I'd almost want to roll it out myself.