The Trustworthy Technologists Network helps the prospective clients
find qualified consultants with good reputations, who will honor
contracts, non-disclosure agreements and provide excellent service.
TTNet uses an internet-based method for
validating the trustworthiness of the consultant and client to one another.
What are the requirements of the Trustworthy Technologists
Network?
- The consultant's web page should contain key words, their resumes and
other documents in their own Internet web pages that would facilitate
search engines to rank the most likely consultants useful to the
prospective client.
- The consultant's web page is linked to many
other consultants, thus forming the Trustworthy Technologists Network.
- The consultant will evaluate the client through normal existing
databases on or off the Internet. Clients will come to realize that their
trustworthiness reputation
in the Internet may be as important as their credit worthiness.
- The consultant should not damage his or her reputation by
allowing a client to spend resources on a task that cannot be reasonably
productive, because the client's own capabilities and excess capacities
are inadequate for any reasonably foreseeable reason.
- Both the consultant and client need a clear and efficient means to
resolve disputes between them. The Trustworthy Technologists
Network can provide an alternative dispute resolution between parties
that will not damage their reputations by employing corrupt judicial
forces to damage another weaker party.
- Nondisclosure agreements must be a part of
the written agreement between the consultant and the client.
Why is a Trustworthy Technologists Network valuable?
Because it reduces the current waste of talent and brainpower -- many of
these technologists are underutilized by their normal employment. They
are available to help commerce and industry develop new products and ideas,
and grow prosperity.
How does the TTNet work?
Each technologist/consultant would have their own webpage with resume,
publications and other useful information plus
hotlinks to other consultants in the network.
A prospective client interested
in having scientific or technical problems solved could find a specific
consultant in the network by doing an internet search using keywords, or
by using the TTNet links.
How can we prove that we are trustworthy?
Validation can be achieved by each Trustworthy Technologists having a
web page on the Network that is linked to other members of TTNet.
Only those technologists who have an established
reputation will have links to their web pages from the other pages in the
network. These trustworthy Netizans are willing to risk their own reputations
by validating the reputation of the associated trustworthy Netizans.
Who are the trustworthy technologists in the TTNet?
They are scientists and/or engineers who stand by their own professional
reputations, and vouch for the other members of the Trustworthy Technologists
Network. The trust between individual members is based on working
experience over many years. Nobody gets in without the sponsorship of a
member of good standing.
The World stands to benefit by the spreading of this network of trust.
Scientists and engineers with honest reputations and valuable skills will
be able to communicate with genuine clients around the world to their
mutual benefit. Only those who honor contracts will be allowed to
join the Trustworthy Technologists Network. All of our reputations are on
the line, and a good professional reputation is the most valuable asset that a
scientist or engineer has.
Trustworthy Technologists Network
is a network of consultants
that use key words, their resumes and other documents
in their own hot linked Internet web pages
to allow prospective clients to find the most suitable consultant and to
evaluate the consultants trustworthiness and
to allow prospective consultant to evaluate the client's trustworthiness
and
to evaluate the client's capability and excess capacity in management,
marketing, manufacturing and funding and
to allow prospective consultant and the client to resolve disputes
between them efficiently.
The Trustworthy Technologists Network makes consultants with scientific
and/or engineering skills and knowledge available to prospective clients
through the use of net search engines. It helps the prospective clients
find qualified consultants. It provides a net based means for
validating the consultant and client to one another. It provides for
efficient dispute resolution. It accelerates the application of science
and technology to the production of goods and services for all. It
accelerates the elimination of coercive governments and other
entities.
The 6 requirements of the Trustworthy Technologists Network
are:
- To allow prospective clients to find the most suitable consultants
the consultant's web page should contain key words, their resumes and
other documents in their own Internet web pages that would facilitate
search engines to rank the most likely consultants useful to the
prospective client.
- To allow a prospective client to evaluate the consultant's
trustworthiness the consultant's web page must be hot linked to as many
other consultants as possible, thus forming the Trustworthy
Technologists Network. At the originating end of the hot link, key words
would summarize the receiving consultant's characteristics. If the
receiving consultant was willing to risk their own reputation on the
originating consultant, he or she would return the favor by having a
reciprocating hot link. Each consultant would also hot link to other
consultants in the same way. This network could be found by key word
searching by a prospective client that was interested in having
scientific or technical problems solved. The client could read each
consultant's resume, papers, patents and other public or private data
that would lead the client to the best choice or choices of
technologists. The client could then bounce to one or more of the
consultants that had hot links from to one another. The client could
see consultants had in fact returned the "trust" to one another. The
client could repeat the process until satisfactory trust validation was
obtain or the client ran out of hot links that demonstrated mutual
trust. The client could obtain additional trust validation by examining
the web pages that, were in a second tier, that is, they had been hot
linked to and hot link from consultants that were not hot linked to the
consultant of direct interest to the prospective client. As the
Trustworthy Technologists Network grows in size, its ability to provide
robust validation grows.
- To allow a prospective consultant to evaluate the client's
trustworthiness the consultant would request the prospective client to
provide a list of scientists or engineers or people who know some scientists or engineers who can validate the client's trustworthiness.
The consultant could also evaluate the client through normal existing
data bases on or off the Internet. Once the Trustworthy Technologists
Network becomes widespread, such client validation will become more
efficient. Clients may come to realize their trustworthiness reputation
in the Internet may be as important as their credit worthiness.
- The consultant needs to evaluate the prospective client's capability
and excess capacity in management, marketing, manufacturing and
funding. In short term, cash up-front relationships, such an evaluation
can be minimized. In longer term consulting relationships, the
consultant must be certain that the eight different client requirements
are clearly understood and that they are adequate for the task to be
completed. The consultant should not damage his or her reputation by
allowing a client to spend resources on a task that cannot be reasonably
productive, because the client's own capabilities and excess capacities
are inadequate for any reasonably foreseeable reason. Of all the causes
of consulting relationship failures, this is the hardest one for the
consultant to avoid. The client does not want the consultant to know
these 8 requirements.
- Both the consultant and client need a clear and efficient means to
resolve disputes between them. A clear and comprehensive consulting
agreement must be prepared that meets all the requirements of both
parties especially the absolute requirement to arbitrate all civil
disputes between both parties. The civil judicial system in all
countries are corrupted by their ruling class or, as in the US, the
conflict of interest caused by lawyers becoming legislature, and
drafting laws that benefit lawyers. The Trustworthy Technologists
Network can provide an alternative dispute resolution between parties
that will not damage their reputations by employing corrupt judicial
forces to damage another weaker party. In other countries and in other
times, trade was restricted by the absence of fair and efficient dispute
resolution. Good dispute resolution for a contractual relationship to
function over time and through unforeseen circumstances is a necessity.
The best system would be an arbitration of disputes by pre selected
arbiters drawn form the associates of the technologist and the
associates of the client. No members of the judicial system or the
political system or the government of any subdivision, for they are
proven to be organized by laws and regulations that always favor the
people that generated such rules in the first place. Thus, only pre
chosen arbiters can be used that come from the class of humans
identified as traders, technologist and business people that are pre
validated by other Trustworthy Techno-Netizans. In a dispute
resolution, both sides would present their case to the pre chosen
arbiters in writing over the net. If the arbiters can not resolve the
dispute the only default resolution can be for both sides to return
their original state at the outset of the relationship.
- Both the consultant and client need a clear and efficient means to
avoid third party conflicts. Nondisclosure agreements must be a part of
the written agreement between the consultant and the client. Permission
to consult must be obtained from the consultant's employer. Disclosure
of foreign interests or ownership by the client must usually be made
known to the consultant's employer. Intellectual property rights
pertinent to the client's or consultant's interests and obligations.
Why is a Trustworthy Technologists Network valuable?
Technologists create most of the new wealth today when they work with
competitive companies. Large numbers of technologists are being wasted
because of coercive government entities and government supported pseudo
competitive companies misuse them in nonproductive activities. All
government supported laboratories have become populated by
majorities of non-technical people or technical people that have been
converted into non-technical activity. The Trustworthy Technologists
Network is a means for ameliorating this tragedy.
How does it work?
The client could read the resume, papers, patents and other public or private data that
would lead the client to the best choice or choices of technologists.
The client could use the hotlinks to travel around the TTNet.
The client could then see if other consultants had in fact returned
the "trust" by linking back to the first consultant.
As long as the links are mutual between the
consultants webpages the client knows that they validate each other.
The client could repeat the process until
satisfactory trust validation was obtained or the client ran out of
links. This provides a
"network based validation" that would be difficult for anyone to
counterfeit.
The prospective client could also use the public documents
in any of the first and second tier of hotlinked pages to further
establish the reputations of any or all of Trustworthy Technologists
Network members. This is how a prospective client could validate the
technology and the trustworthiness of a prospective consultant.
The Trustworthy Technologists can use a similar means to validate a
prospective client. The client would have to provide its public records
to the technologist and find a Trustworthy Techno-Netizan(s) that could
validate the reputation of the client to the prospective consultant.
The prospective client would also have to demonstrate its capacity and
capability in the areas of management, marketing, manufacturing and
money to the prospective consultant. Public and private records that
verify the excess capacity as well as adequate capability would have to
be provided to the prospective consultant. Both parties would need
nondisclosure agreements to protect their private documents and data.
Validation can be achieved by each Trustworthy Technologists having a
web page on the Network that is linked to other members of TTNet.
Only those technologists who have an established
reputation will have links to their web pages from the other pages in the
network. These trustworthy Netizans are willing to risk their own reputations
by validating the reputation of the associated trustworthy Netizans.
-
A key word list describing the trustworthy Netizan’s goods or
services that can be used by the search engines of the Internet to find
the web page. These key words will be used in the web site and as part
of the META tag notation in the source documents html.
- A detailed description of the goods or services available from the
trustworthy Netizan. Can be in the form of a resume But should be as
detailed as cost and storage space allows.
- The agreement that covers the trade transaction. Commonly accepted agreements should be
used where the product or service is widely and competitively traded to
save consummation time and dispute resolution.
- A description and graphic illustration of how hot links between
trustworthy Netizans can validate one an other’s reputations. The trustworthy Netizan in need of
reputation validation hot links to his or hers associates web pages.
These trustworthy Netizans who are willing to risk their own reputations
by validating the reputation of the associated trustworthy Netizans.
- A description and graphic illustration of how a prospective buyer or
seller can then see if the reputation validation was mutual. Depending
upon the value and risk of the transaction the prospective buyer or
seller could repeat the process with additional hot link validations.
- A description and graphic illustration of how both the buyer and
seller can automate the reputation validation process. To obtain a
validation, both the buyer and the seller, the parties to the trade, use
the hot links on one another web pages to move to an associated
trustworthy Netizan of the other party. From that web page they look to
see if the associated trustworthy Netizan has a hot link back to the
other party. This process produces a single bilateral validating hot
link pair. If the hot link is not bilateral, then the validation is not
mutual and its absence diminishes the reputation of the party.
The validation process is repetitive and software will be developed (by
whom and what exactly do you mean by software? -- Jess) that will
automate it and report the number of bilateral validations made and the
number of unilateral validations. Unilateral hot links indicate that a
reputation may be damaged or they just did not get around to putting it
in place.
- A description and graphic illustration of how both the buyer and
seller can validate one another by finding a network linkage between
them. Once the Trust Net has grown, one or more databases can be
developed that maps all of the trustworthy Netizan’s relationships. This
map would allow the software to find one or more of the shortest
connections between both the buyer and the seller.
A recent article titled "Close Connections" in Science News, August 22,
1998, vol. 154, attached, illustrates how such connections would be
likely once the Trust Net began to grow. Finding someone who knows
someone who knows the other party of a prospective transaction may
provide an improved validation of the buyer to the seller and visa
versa. Such connections may require many intermediaries. The more
intermediaries required for linkage the less valuable the validation.
Almost all technologist already have a network of associates within
their scientific or engineering fields. Such existing technical
discipline nets are becoming more easily maintained because of the early
adoption of the use of the Internet by such technologists. They
presently lack the automation and hot linking that would make reputation
validation easy and quick. Such existing networks of technologists
should be the basis for beginning of the Trustworthy Technologists
Network.
- A description and graphic illustration of how a dispute resolution process works.
Both parties to the agreement that are in dispute, buyer
and seller, ask their associated trustworthy Netizans to participate in
the resolution of the dispute. The associated trustworthy Netizans of
both parties work out a resolution to the dispute. Both parties to the
dispute accept the resolution term or reject them. If they accept, this
fact of resolution is made part of both parties web page and adds to
both their reputations. If one or both reject the resolution, then the
associated trustworthy Netizans of the rejecting party(s) have an
obligation to remove their validating hot links to the rejecting party.
The associates of the dispute parties act as a jury and advocates for
both parties. If the reputations of both parties to the dispute and that
of their associates are of sufficient value to each of them, then the
dispute should be easily and quickly resolved.
If the parties to the dispute do not value their reputations then a
resolution may not be obtained. Other means of dispute resolution will
have to be obtained by the parties. These other means will be neither as
fast nor as efficient, and they will involve corrupt laws,
intermediaries and processes and in the end neither party will benefit.
- A description and graphic illustration of how an entity rather than a
person is handled in any situation. Entities, such a corporations,
partnerships, governments and their agencies by design, have limited
lifetimes and are used to avoid long term commitments and reputations.
The principals, owners and management of entities do have long life
times and as such have more to lose by risking their reputations for
short term gains. Families or tribes have long term interest in the
maintenance of their reputation. The trust between members of extended
families are tied to the inherent trust between parents and offspring.
Families, extended families and tribes have a built in need for trust
between the members. Trust was and still is a powerful force for
survival.
All military entities demand it for this very reason.
Therefore, the trustworthy Netizans must tie their trust in an entity to
the trust they can have in the principals, owners and management of that
entity. For instance, when the elected leaders of a large, wealthy and
prosperous entity take things of value from other than the members of
that entity, they damage their reputations for living up to their
employment agreements that define the relationship between them and the
citizens of that entity that employ them to be their leaders. Employees,
acting as decision makers for the entity, of an entity that takes things
of value from some other entity they must be considered to have damaged
their employment agreement with the citizens of that entity. Therefore,
entities that allow their employees to do things that damage the
reputation of the entity must be treated differently than entities that
continuously protect the reputation of the entity. This illustrates why
trustworthy Netizans must use this validation process, the TTNet, to
validate the reputations of those that can make decisions about how the
entity will behave regarding the agreement that a buyer or a seller of
goods or services may join in. This reasoning should encourage
participants in an entity to examine the reputations of the prospective
decision making leaders before they elect or nominate such decision
makers to their positions of power within their entity. This process
will also constrain the predatory actions of a large entity against a
smaller entity or individual. (for example: diamond
trading centers in Jewish NY communities do this. When one trader doesn't deal
fair or causes distrust his face and info is posted at all the sites to
warn everyone not to trade with him)
They are :
- scientists and/or engineers,
- trained to discover and apply the laws of nature,
- members of organizations that enforce trust and truth
as a condition of membership,
- trained to protect their own and others reputation,
- now the main source of wealth in the World,
- ripped off and unfairly exploited by coercive governments
and enterprises and their judicial systems.
Trustworthy Technologist are clearly within the class of individuals who
can be called Traders. Traders can be differentiated fromGuardians
because they generally choose to do or be the following:
- Shun force
- Come to voluntary agreements
- Be honest
- Collaborate easily with strangers and aliens
- Compete
- Respect contracts
- Use initiative and enterprise
- Be open to inventiveness and novelty
- Be efficient
- Promote comfort and convenience
- Dissent for the sake of the task
- Invest for productive purposes
- Be industrious
- Be thrifty
- Be optimistic
Guardians generally choose to do or be the following:
- Shun trade
- Exert prowess
- Be obedient and disciplined
- Adhere to tradition
- Respect hierarchy
- Be loyal
- Take vengeance
- Deceive for the sake of the task
- Make rich use of leisure
- Be ostentatious
- Dispense largesse
- Be exclusive
- Show fortitude
- Be fatalistic
- Treasure honor
Efficient reputation validation and dispute resolution begets efficient
global trade. Increased efficient global trade benefits most humans.
The more remote the buyer is from the seller in time, distance, culture
and language, the more important a mutual, efficient reputation
validation and dispute resolution becomes.
In most countries, the enforcement of trade contracts by the judicial
system are too expensive and take too long. In my own experience, even
in the US, the judicial system favors the side that has the most time
and money. Even if all of the facts of the case, favor the weaker party
to the dispute, the stronger party can out spend and out last the weaker
party. In my opinion, this is the result of allowing lawyers to become
legislators. The laws are written to encourage delays and multiple
serial jurisdictions to aggrandize the legal profession. As evidence, I
give you the continuing absence of any penalties for malicious
prosecution in the US.
An additional justification for efficient reputation validation and
dispute resolution is the new importance of scientific discovery and
technology development. In the past; territory, labor or natural
resources were the were the basis of wealth and a good living.
Recently, in the new technology driven world, trust between
technologists has become even more important. Scientist have enforced
trustworthy behavior within their guild from the beginning. Scientists
who tried to cheat in the pursuit of discovery where soon ostracized
because the laws of nature sooner or later exposed the cheaters. Such
cheating delayed the progress of science and damaged the reputations of
all members of the guild. Engineers who cheated in the design and
implementation of their constructions and machines were exposed sooner
or later by the failure of their works. The delay of scientific
understanding is a tragedy, but the inadequate design and/or
implementation often results in many premature painful deaths or
impairment.
We have been blessed by a new thing, the Internet It is the result of
scientists and engineers applying the results of discoveries to the
creation of new technology. The advent of the Internet has altered the
basis of power. Netizans are now the most powerful group of people in
the world and they are growing in number and improved technology
geometrically. They have intellectual, political and economic power that
exceeds any other group of people or entities. These powers are based
upon the actual realization of the Theory of Communicative Action, by
the German philosopher, Jargon Habermas. His theory teaches that if
people can efficiently communicate across international borders without
being jammed or tapped by their coercive government, that government
cannot maintain its coercive power for long. This is because coercive
governmental power is based upon the marketing of religious or racial
hatred. If the government can convince most of its population to fear
and hate the people in neighboring countries, it can obtain more power
over its own citizens because they justify coercive means in the name of
defense.
Governments are philosophically opposed to power in the hands of their
citizens. Even the best of countries have one or more groups of people
using the power of their government to take advantage of other groups of
people. In many cultures this is accepted or ignored as the normal
condition. Contracts between individuals and/or entities are regularly
corrupted by bribery in such cultures. The damage that this bribery
inflicts on the members of the society is pervasive. Bribery begets
bribery and the economy is damaged until the citizens rebel. In many
countries extended families [tribes may be a better word] will only do
business within the extended family because the family members all
recognize that the reputation for keeping their agreements is so
valuable that they enforce, sometimes in very brutal ways, the
protection of the family's reputation.
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