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<h4>Resource Flows</h4>
<p>
All of the software we work on here is based on resource flows.
These can occur at any level of economic activity.
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<p>
The basic pattern is that resources flow into and out of processes through input and output events; and resources flow
from one agent to another through give/take events in exchanges. Resources can flow through processes and exchanges in
any order.
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<img src="images/process-exchange-simple.png" />
<h4>The Operational Level</h4>
<p>
At the operational level, actual resources are being used, consumed, cited, created, changed, exchanged.
We define resources fairly broadly. Resources can be material things, designs, documents, code, as well as work.
But they are real. (We can also define resource types, which allows recipes and planning to drive the actual work.)
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The software can:
<ul>
<li>trace all of the resources that went into creating a resource, and all of the other resources the created
resource went into,</li>
<li>recursively, which means the inputs to the inputs to the inputs, and the outputs from the outputs
from the outputs, forever, until the end uses,</li>
<li>or do the same thing backwards to the sources.</li>
</ul>
This is what allows creating plans, coordination of work, and distributing income according to contributions.
</p>
<p>Here's a simple example for manufacturing. First the work is done to create something, the thing is sold
and the income calculation flows back through the resource flow and applies the value equation.</p>
<img src="images/roundTrip1.png" />
<img src="images/roundTrip2.png" />
<p>
<b>A note on resource flows and project management:</b> The resource flow model does not fit neatly with standard project
management tools, which tend to connect processes directly together as predescessors and successors. By using resources
as the connectors, it makes the connections flexible within its context. That is, a process can take in a particular kind
of resource from any other process that created it, or from any exchange that received it.
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<p>
<b>A note on the use of money:</b> This example uses money as the return income stream, because that is how it works in
this real example. But there is no requirement anywhere for money to be used. Resource flows will support barter,
alternative currencies, credits, a portion of what is produced, whatever.
</p>
<h4>The Community and Cluster Level</h4>
<p>
At a higher level, the resources are still real, but are an accumulation by place, time, type of resource, or any
other useful category.
Here is an example of a food cluster for a community. A sample lower level flow is shown as a breakout.
</p>
<img src="images/locecon-flow.png" />
<p>Here is a different visualization of a cluster for fishing. In this example the fish resources are at the level
of fishing gear, and grade.
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<img src="images/locecon.png" />
<h4>Networks of Networks !</h4>
<p>
Here is a vision of networks connected by resource flows. We can build a whole economic ecosystem for ourselves this way!
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<img src="images/big-network.png" />
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