2. 3/ EMERGING FIELD OF OPEN
Jessi Baker
Provenance
Amisha Ghadiali
Think Act Vote
Helen Jackson
Open Healthcare
Leander Binewald
NEF
James Arthur
FabHub
Robin Brownsell
Tusmor
Siddarth VijayaKumar
GrubClub
Alexander Markham
AJ Russell & Sons
Alastair Parvin
WikiHouse
24. We are all part of
this industry,
whether we
identify with it
or not...
25. There are over 80
billion garments
produced each year.
(Greenpeace)
26. The world clothing and textile
industry (clothing, textiles,
footwear and luxury goods)
reached almost $2,560
trillion in 2010.
(Global Textiles, Apparel &
Luxury Goods)
27. The British Fashion
Council estimated that
in 2009 the UK fashion
industry directly
contributed £20.9 billion
to the UK economy.
29. Riddled with issues.....
Fast Fashion, Chemical
Pollution, Waste, Slave Labour,
Pesticide Poisoning,
Environmental Damage,
Global Supply Chain,
Exploitation, No Accountability,
Bad Press, MISSING DATA....
30. Open Fashion?
* Designers & Brands working together, sharing learning
* Open data on supply chains & production
* Full Accountability, No Hiding
* Consumer Power
* Your ideas....?
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Money + Open
= Community Currency
Leander Bindewald
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This presentation has been produced by the New Economics Foundation
as part of the Community Currencies in Action (CCIA) collaboration project.
CCIA is a transnational partnership working to develop and deliver community currency demonstrations in several
member states across the North West of Europe. CCIA will lead the way in sharing knowledge and best practice to enable
communities throughout Europe to grow stronger in their ability to achieve vibrant and prosperous networks that are
efficient in delivering social, economic and environmental outcomes.
CCIA will design, develop and implement community currencies across NW Europe; providing a rigorously tested
package of support structures to facilitate the development of CCs across NWE and promote CCs as a credible (policy)
vehicle for achieving positive outcomes.
CCIA is part funded through the INTERREG IVB North West Europe (NWE) Programme, which is a financial instrument
of
the
European
Union’s
Cohesion
Policy
- Investing in Opportunities.
Find out more about CCIA on our website: www.communitycurrenciesinaction.eu
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What is money?
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"Give me the power to issue
a nation's money;
then I do not care who makes the law."
Anselm Rothschild
Money and Power
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How is money?
How do we use money?
unit of account
means of exchange
store of value
Three forms of money:
Notes and coin
Central bank reserves
Commercial bank money
(Bank deposits)
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Where does money come from?
“When banks make loans they create
additional deposits” Bank of England (2007)
"Of all the many ways of organising
banking, the worst is the one we have
today."
Mervyn King (2010)
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“Money is not metal; it is trust inscribed”
Niall Ferguson
Money a Social Relationship
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Who can create money?
Banks
created as interest-
bearing debt by
private banks
Government
spent into
circulation by state
and collected as tax
“The Ecology of Money”
by Richard Douthwaite
People
based on “resources”
and mutual agreement
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Currency as Social Technology
“Currency is any unit system,
that facilitates collaboration
in a community”
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Another Money is Happening
71. Political Barriers to Entry Removed
! Tusmor have been working with the FSA (FCA)
for more than a year defining Barriers to Entry for
new banks and designing improvements to
practice and procedure to mitigate those barriers
! Tusmor have been working with HM Treasury on
Barriers to Entry in the UK Payments Systems.
! Tusmor have been working with BIS on financial
Barriers to Entry.
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72. What we are doing
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3
Tusmor Incubation service is now working with 5
new banks planning to launch by summer 2014
( if they can raise investment )
£10 million compared to £100 million
They will operate on the Tusmor Banking Platform
The platform will be shared and therefore be able
to deliver significant savings and
Improve speed to market from 30 to 6 months
Our aim is to enable and support hundreds of new
local banks
Working with like minded people and organisations
to deliver solutions
The Transforming Finance Charter
93. GrubClub
And some are not yet born
• Get your haircut or nails done in your
neighbour’s home?
• Find and buy food before it goes off
• Any other suggestions?
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Good news for Recovering Capitalists!
• Viable business model
• Helps make the most of everything around us
• Allows small businesses to get started and thrive
But
• Was the Financial crisis caused by it?
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2
3
4
1. Standard triple glazed unit.
2. CNC cut ‘sandwich’ frame. 18mm Birch plywood.
3. Capacity to use many different kinds of hinges, handles and seals.
4. No manufactured flashings required.
118. 6 BIG CHALLENGES
OPEN ≠ FREE
How do we fund /
resource / support
development without
compromising it?
Transparency is hard
work!
(Time scarcity leads to
opacity)
STANDARDS,
DOCUMENTATION &
INFRASTRUCTURE
Tools to allow much easier
collaborative sharing of
design files, supporting plural
authorship and the semantic
knowledge around each
product. How to get sharing
out of the inbox.
(GitHub for stuff)
OPEN
VENTURES
As well as open
projects by
communities of
amateurs, what
might open ventures
be? How do you do
open business?
LEGAL
LIABILITY
When open software
breaks, people lose
time and money. When
open hardware
breaks, people lose
limbs.
(Uh oh.)
OPEN
MARKETS
How do you host a
peer-to-peer economy
in each sector? We
need to develop new
kinds of regulation and
governance to solve big
problems.
(Politics and ethics of
open access)
LOWER THE
THRESHOLDS
Open is not just
shared &
transparent. If we are
going to be disruptive
we also need to
continuously design-
down the practical
social thresholds
between us and
wellbeing.
(Time, Cost,