Shared Value Exchange Fellow
If money were not the measure of value, what evidence would make value legible?
Before asking whether value moved, ask: What carried it?
Opening problem
Money is unusually easy to follow.
It moves.
It has units.
Transactions leave records.
But people exchange things that matter every day without money being the thing carrying the value.
Knowledge. Skills. Trust. Introductions. Access. Leadership. Opportunity. Contribution.
What happens to those forms of value as they move between people and through networks?
Starting model
Movement, transformation, replication, later effect.
The same element may have different value depending on actor, time, context.
Actor-relative value: Val(e, a, t, c)
Movement to transformation: Something may transform. This is not guaranteed.
Transformation to replication: Something may be replicated. This is not guaranteed.
Replication to later effect: Something may produce a later effect. This is not guaranteed.
Interactive moment
Which one carries value?
Depends who you ask.
Validation questions
None of those relationships are guaranteed.
- Which things actually function as value bearers?
- How does attribution change between actors?
- Where does friction appear?
- Does transformation preserve, alter or destroy what mattered?
- Can something replicate while retaining provenance?
- What later effects actually follow?
Your research
Value is not automatically identical to whatever appears to move through a network.
An exchange moves. Something may transform. Something may be replicated. Something may produce a later effect.
Validation field
Nairobi + virtual/digitally mediated networks.
Proficiency
Independent Master's-level research proficiency or demonstrated equivalent.
12 months
3 validation environments
4 mathematical validation pathways
1 lateral validation pathway
5 Fellows
Credentials are evidence, not the sole gate. The proficiency threshold remains the same; the evidence route differs.
Level 1 · General Application
Shared Value Exchange Fellow
What carried it?
Start with the work you have already done, the evidence behind it, and the question you want to investigate.
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