Universal Basic Assets
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Basics
- A Framework First Proposed by The Institute for the Future
- Despite mentioning Open Source Information and Open Source Software, No explicit mention is made of Open Hardware, in the sense of The Promise of Open Hardware
- As per the following quite, it defines various types of "goods":
- "In the UBA framework and manifesto, we focus on three broad classes of assets: Private assets include money, land, and housing. Public assets refer to infrastructure and services like education, health, and public utilities. Lastly, open assets are a growing category of mostly digital assets that are communally created and open to everyone, from Wikipedia and open education resources to scientific knowledge, artificial intelligence tools, and much more."
- Thus the Universal Basic Assets program proposes entrepreneurial founder-instigated, public-interest enterprises that promote access to universal basic assets of all types. Such enterprises are known as the Open Sector.