2. Overview
1. Intro: Who we are, What we do tonight?
2. Framing: Why do we do things?
3. Why money/ Why complementary currencies?
4. Creating new currencies: Tough innovation!
5. Best Practice: From the outside– From the inside
6. Do´s and Don´ts
7. Workshops
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3. HUB CC, TOREKES, SCHOENEN
Leander Bindewald
Igor Byttebier
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4. 1. Intro
New shoes today - Igor Byttebier /
Karen Van Heuckelom
HUB Brussels - Leander Bindewald
ü What we do tonight?
ü What we don´t do tonight!
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5. 2. Framing
Why do we do things?
ü FROM THE INSIDE
ü FROM THE OUTSIDE
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9. 3. Why Money?
ü Convenience in exchange
ü Convenience in measuring, valuing
ü Saving
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10. 3. Why Complementary Currency?
The problems of the €uro monopoly
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The opportunities for CC
Unmet Needs & Underutilised Resources
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11. 3. New CCs with Social Goals
6000
5000 Argentina
Elsewhere
Japan
4000
Other Europe
Italy
Germany +
3000 Austria
Other Europe France
Benelux
Germany +
2000 UK
Austria
Benelux Australia
New Zealand
UK
1000 USA + Canada
USA + Canada
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12. 4. CC = Tough Innovation
€uro = very HIGH convenience factor
ü Interchangability
ü SIMPLE
ü Widely accepted and understood
ü Highly efficient TIME = MONEY
ü People are USED to it, and highly emotional about it
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13. 5. Examples: Best Practices
Categorizing Complementary Currencies:
ü Competitive – Cooperative
ü Commercial – Social
ü Geographically – Theme
ü Paper – Virtual
ü Intrest – No Intrest – Negative Intrest
ü Mutual Credit – Fiat Money
ü From the Outside – From the Inside
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15. nich. After my traineeship as a vocational school teacher I became a Waldorf teacher at
Waldorf school in Prien am Chiemsee in 2002. Prien is in the south-east of Bavaria about
From the Outside: RegioGeld
kilometres from Munich. The region is called ‘Chiemgau’. About half a million people
there.
Paying with Chiemgauer at lake Chiemsee
he picture you see one of our members paying for her meal with the Chiemgauer
ency. Her name is Julia Kollmannsberger and she is the owner of a shop called "Regional
rket at Prien am Chiemsee". In the background is lake Chiemsee, the geographic centre of
region. No town of the Chiemgauer-region is more than 50 kilometres away from lake
emsee.
emgauer is an example for a so-called 'Regiomoney', which is defined as a monetary
em only valid within a region which has the size of about one or two districts. The
ned region has to be large enough to establish relevant business cycles which can provide
inhabitants with about 50% of needed goods and services.
HAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH MONEY?
ney is an agreement to use a medium for exchanging goods and services, saving and
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ou compare the total world trade in goods and services with the foreign exchange trade,
will find that for the year 2007 only 1.2 percent of all money is used for world trade
16. From the Outside: C3, Brazil - Uruguay - Spain
C3 – Commercial Credit Circuit
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23. 6. Learning: from others & by doing
From the Outside – From the Inside
VISION:
What is it exactly that we want!
COMMUNITY:
Do we have enough community around this wish?
CREATE NEW VALUE:
‘Are we able to create new value with our initiative?
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24. 6. Learning: from others & by doing
ü Target group ü Organisational integrity
ü Motivation ü Legal issues
ü Boundaries (participants, ü Organisational structure
content, ...) ü Management
ü ‘Create loops': linking assets ü Team and continuity
to needs
ü Control
ü Organisational authority and ü Costs & financing (start up
partners and continuity)
ü Mechanism (issuance, ü Tax issues
demurrage)
ü Link with €uro or other
ü Paper, virtual, software currencies/communities
ü Technical safety
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25. 7. Workshops
1. How to create your own CC ?
2. Portrait: HUB CC, Torekes, Schoenen
3. More about existing CCs: Design, Categorization
4. Your suggestions…
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