Introduction to the Banks of Social Capital, the creation of a new institution or how to release the power of mass collaboration

• Autor(a) principal: Thurin, Florent
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22197
• topic: Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

As the focus on social capital and information technology intensifies in today’s connected world, a deeper understanding of how to harness these two trends is increasingly important. This paper describes how the creation of a new kind of institution could potentially endorse the difficult role of enhancing collaboration between economic agents. Firstly, we will widely describe what a Bank of Social Capital, or BoSC, should look like and the way it operates. Special attention will be further dedicated to its main tool and responsibility: The Virtuous Bond. That is through the fair attribution of this score that the BoSC could exploit that elusive form of capital which is Social Capital. The last part details more pragmatically how exactly this institution would operate and the variables that project holders must fulfil to access the funds. Through this perspective, our study is based on a wide spectrum of fields of research from a collection of interdisciplinary assumptions from Economic behaviour to Technologic and Informatics. It consists mostly of a synthesis work and will try to answer the fundamental question: How can we release the potential of mass collaboration?