Currencies are getting momentum in many ways. Bitcoin is celebrating its 5th birthday with many burning news. Ethereum, Solarcoin, Litecoin, Freicoin, Dogecoin are doing their work of mapping international webs too. Their strength lies in the code that guides their vision and development.
At the same time local towns, transition towns, regions are creating local currencies based on social contracts, local trust and local exchanges.
These 2 developments are probably not opposed and certainly contribute to the same dynamics : creating alternative to the traditional currencies.
What will the future of currencies look like? Local one? Decentralised one? What are the most advanced design to certify trust in these networks? Human based trust with local open governance? Technological based trust with open decentralised governance? Both? Something else?
The idea is certainly not to give an answer but to open the field and explore what these scenarios have to offer : risks? opportunities?
We are launching a cooperative to develop a trust network for the region Ile de France. The goal? create a symbiotic economy, an economy in which organisations generate positive externalities. How? by giving credits with 0 interest to SMEs, NGOs that do good. I have been developping... Read More →
Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership and the Founding Director of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK), which now runs the world's largest specialist sustainability MBA programme. Bendell is a strategist and educator... Read More →
In 2011 I worked with Stephanie rearick in Madison, WI on earlier incarnations of the MAN (http://mutualaidnetwork.org) and rejoined this year, as UK based groomer for the next milestones. Uniting an academic background in neurobiology, philosophy and economics with life and work... Read More →
Passionnate about evolution of individual and collective self. Doing research in collective intelligence, building enlightened organizations, working on the post-monetary society. Doing it by hacking himself.
Wednesday May 7, 2014 09:15 - 10:00 CEST
01 The Circus
