Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Private Profit from Public Value?
Following a very old argument we made in 2001 (published in the ACM Journal Database for Applied Information Sciences in 2003), the challenge will be for community builders to act as political entrepreneurs telling compelling stories about their communities to persuade members to join, stay, and create public value (community value). The question, if private (meta-)profit can be skimmed of such a public value creating entity depends on the specific environment of the community and cannot be answered once and for all.
