Any taken-for-granted public infrastructure has detailed intellectual underpinning. This page shares evolving thinking about under-the-hood details required for POEMs (Public Official E-Markets).
“Like water out of a tap” suggests something effortless. But chemists, physicists, meteorologists, geologists, geographers, and engineers running public water supply draw on a huge body of knowledge. Any platform for economic activity operating as a public utility will likewise be complex behind-the-scenes. But if the thinking is solid, users should be as uninterested in the minutiae as most water consumers.
The briefings
- Definition: The 10 points that distinguish POEMs from other e-markets.
Requirements of legislation to enable POEMs:
- Legislation Checklist: Some prompts on points to be covered.
- Legislation Primer: More detailed analysis of likely content for any legislation.
- Maximum Average Transaction Size (MATS) rules: Why/how small purchases should be favored.
- Ensuring Decentralization: Federated operators, franchisees, the role of external apps.
- POEMs’ Role in Democratic Checks and Balances: Transparency, bulwark, failover rules.
- Ten Point Checklist: Standards for POEMs’ implementations.
Possibilities for POEMs:
- Technology Schema: A starting point for an “everything store” for the micro-economy.
- Public Assistance and Support: How POEMs could modernize the social safety net.
- POEMs for a Transition Economy: How POEMs might be initiated for troubled nations.