[epic] Micro Guide: Designing digital good business models (with public interest flavor)

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Designing digital good business models (with public interest flavor). Design Business Models for public interest digital goods like an emissions or environmental footprint database

• Skeleton (hypothesis tree): https://coggle.it/diagram/ZDUQAUGwolWedD7a/t/designing-business-models-for-diginomics-101-subtree-here 👈
• Original coggle with SCQA and v0.1 Hypothesis tree (Jan 2023): https://coggle.it/diagram/Y7wv5r1Eo51jzYBJ/t/diginomics-101 Obsolete

Acceptance

• Skeleton
• Landing page for "fuller guide": designing business models guide
• Draft

Tasks

Landing page

• Create out a landing page and overview based on skeleton we have
• Can have more text (e.g. actual course - may as well have it out there!) 🚧2023-05-04 started this here https://diginomics.io/design-digital-business-models

Notes

Parking lot re naming etc

TODO: this is an important issue. Get a "good enough to try" for now, plus a list of options documented for future re-consideration.

Parking lot

• Digital public infrastructure
• public interest digital infrastructure
• public interest software, content and data
• digital goods

Dimensions

• Qualifier option
  • Public interest
  • public infrastructure
  • ...
• Digital goods
  • digital good
  • digital product etc

Sketches

Excalidraw sketch (various iterations jan 2023 to march 2023)

Summary excalidraw with sketch of guide layout: https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/AS49XMqTYbf

Guide outline 2023-03-30

🚩 sort of deprecated now as replaced by coggl plan above

What is our goal 2023-03-30? Here's a guide to designing the business model for a database of emission data (Aside: why emissions data? not important, we just want a concrete example)

• Executive summary (last)
  • Visual summary sketch of the below incorporating short text summaries, links to existing published material and any existing visual material (even if unpolished) 🚧2023-03-30 in https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/AS49XMqTYbf
• [Why, What] Production and supply of emissions data (digital goods in general) requires a different set of guiding principles and a richer/alternative set of approaches because digital goods are fundamentally different from "normal" goods [in being ~ costlessly copyable and having active disincentives for production/supply] 
  • Data is "data"! (emissions data is data) 💬2023-03-30 so obvious you could skip but worth a slide in a presentation
  • Data is different (digital is different) Data is different overview (could focus on a specific case eg. EF database #60
  • Difference matters in X, Y way
    • Check your "mental worldview" at the door
• [How] There are 6 basic archetypes for production and supply of emissions data (digital goods) and there are these criteria for assessing which are usable in which combination. [Designing socio-economic systems for digital information/data [Diginomics system design] builds on these 4 archetypes which can be combined in Z ways.] [epic] Incentive Model Taxonomy #22
  • 🔥 Introduction to business models and terminology Terminology and Glossary #39
  • How to assemble from building blocks (? even optional - don't have to explain in some mathematical way that X constraints lead to Y options - can be an appendix later)
  • 🔥 Resulting typology / taxonomy: i.e. list of models with a page for each model
    • visual overviews e.g. tree of models explaining
• Evaluation system (in general) (how do you assess model) aka "Features" e.g. access, social value etc [optional]
  • Bonus is diagrams that rank by feature or that show how to choose a model by the features you want (e.g. you want open, then you have this)
• How to choose for you "The discerning model buyer's guide to the best models" 😉 (nb: may move this to front at end!)
  • What key factors about your situation to consider
  • What features do you care about
  • Well, here is the shortlist ranked by X

Original outline of guide (coggle jan 2023)

Overall outline of plan of work: https://coggle.it/diagram/Y7wv5r1Eo51jzYBJ/t/diginomics-101