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entire health care sector, which could be turned into a transparently documented and
validated process supported by modern ICT tools, where medical practitioners would
get easy access to the latest medical research findings. This is in sharp contrast to
the closed research source situation of today, where medical research and practical
health care are almost totally separated.
Enriching.the.Economy.by.Expanding.the.Value.Ontology
Figure 18 shows a Conzilla map called taxonomy of value types, which was created
about four years ago in connection with a project idea called ethical e-commerce
(E2C) that we were discussing with one of our industry partners, but which, for
various reasons, was not realized at the time. The aim was to make use of the human
Semantic Web as a collaborative modeling environment and to try to set up a
Conzilla-based ba for capturing as many of the different value-types as possible that
are important to some of the stakeholders in our global future, including individuals,
communities, and organizations on the national and international level. Then
these stakeholders would create stakeholder-specific value profiles for different
projects, with each value profile marked with information on the stakeholder(s)
that created it. 30
The E2C project could be subtitled “Enriching the Economy by Expanding the Value
Ontology: Stakeholder-Specific Value Profiling as a Mediator of Market Exchange.”
The specific idea was to let the operator (= market-maker) of a so-called market
hub (= electronic marketplace) announce that a certain percentage (e.g., 1%) of the
turnover of the hub would be directed to a project that the customer would be free to
choose. The system (based on Conzilla) would provide a menu of possible choices,
and each project would be equipped with a set of value profiles issued by different
Figure 18. An embryo of an expanded-value ontology
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