Paul, thanks for opening a cross-atlantic collaboration about Digital Villages and their components: iTraining, iTrading, Future Store, Visual Radio, Innovation Train, Open Innovation, Microjobs, Co-creation and Learning by doing.
Digital Villages is bigger than a store. The Apple Store in New York is a great and inspiring model, but DV goes for the economical, social, and cultural evolution of a community, town or city.
Not an easy task, but the mental tools are there to help people to get involved in large scale collaboration; to make a better world.
The English model of 5T has to be redefined.
The core idea is to activate people and to get them engaged. We start with the first tool: