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投稿者 Makayla
投稿日時 2014/08/10 1:26:54
Lost credit card sublimedirectory xm It is easy to dismiss Cole’s idea as just too impossibly romantic, but she is backed by the founder of one of the most successful examples of a gift economy: Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia, Wales’s freely licensed digital encyclopedia of more than 24 million entries, relies on virtually an all-volunteer staff of some 80,000 people inspired to do something helpful; in this case, provide access to accurate knowledge. Cole met Wales at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2012, and her first question to him was why had he made Wikipedia non-profit. ‘At that point I was really thinking about the business structure, and how I could put gift economy into a monetary model and not create a paradox,’ Cole says.