User:Smarthart/Open Social Reputation

Open Social Reputation is the development of a legally based reputation system that can be used to develop open source, social reputation applications which develop and administer trust. The open system of reputation is intended to be an internet based, individual to company, auditing service that is intended to leverage a compliance business model of transparency over organisational practice which can be integrated with organisational brand and service activity. Open Social Reputation or OSR is intended to greatly improve transparency, compliance and trust between people and organisational infrastructure not between people.

The open social reputation is based on the compliance performance of an organization, and is primarily focused on shaming the bad companies and promoting the good. Secondary focus is on promoting the corporate responsibility of an organization and educating the public on how company profits are used for the benefit of society. OSR is the life work of Mark Lizar a social theorist, and is actively developed at Identity Trust CIC. Although OSR is nothing new and and can be traced back to the Panopticon, and Social Contract theory which first developed byThomas Hobbes (1651), John Locke (1689) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) whom are the most famous philosophers of contractarianism, which formed the theoretical groundwork of UK democracy.

Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example." the design was invoked by Michel Foucault (in Discipline and Punish) as metaphor for modern "disciplinary" societies and its pervasive inclination to observe and normalise. Foucault asserts that Bentham design is pervasive throughout all heirarachal structures.

Open Social Reputation is in effect the inverse of the panopticon for hierarchal structures or better described as a much bigger version of the Panopticon where society in the information age is able to turn the Panopticon onto the infrastructure with social authoritative reputation. The development of transparency whereby the individual can see contextually the reputation of the organisation, where the reputation can be used socially and openly developed into the fabric of information systems, will enable internet scale trust, social mobilisation, alignment of economics and societal ambitions.