{"id":3570,"date":"2011-04-08T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:48:48","slug":"converting-the-virtual-economy-into-development-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"Converting the Virtual Economy into Development Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Boing Boing I came across this report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infodev.org\/en\/Publication.1056.html\">Converting the Virtual Economy into Development Potential<\/a> is a very interesting report on gold farming, microwork and cherry blossoming. The report describes the economics and value chain of these activities. It discusses some of the ethical issues, but is focused on how these activities could provide good work for developing countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Boing Boing I came across this report: Converting the Virtual Economy into Development Potential is a very interesting report on gold farming, microwork and cherry blossoming. The report describes the economics and value chain of these activities. It discusses some of the ethical issues, but is focused on how these activities could provide good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Converting the Virtual Economy into Development Potential<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-streaming-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}