Community Currency
From Social Collaborative Singapore
[Note: This page is structured for the purpose of providing information to interest potential collaborators to developing a community currency in Singapore. It is also structured so that existing collaborators can contribute not to a concept paper or action plan, but to an understanding necessary before that can even be possible. However, this is not meant to be an encyclopedic entry or resource page, since there are many that are already out there. It merely has to be an index that points to them]
Contents
The Basics
What is Community Currency
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Significance of Community Currencies
Videos
- General Introduction to Community Currency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAShxDp578&t=56s
- On the Brixton Pound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8X2WIfyoWM
Grey Literature
- Policy Brief by Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy: https://gup.ub.gu.se/file/207942
Latest Developments
- Blockchain based community currencies, see https://blog.bancor.network/redesigning-community-currencies-from-one-tomato-to-1000-wallets-on-sarafu-network-80a629354ab1
Examples
How to Create A Community Currency
Useful Leads
Will Ruddick
- His publications & videos compiled: http://www.socioeco.org/bdf_auteur-1084_en.html
- Will Ruddick's YouTube Channel
Grassroots Economics
- https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/
- https://github.com/GrassrootsEconomics/CIC-Docs (Useful documents there; to find out if this is open source)
- Started by Will Ruddick
RAMICS & IJCCR
- The International Journal of Community Currency Research is the official publication of the Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Complementary and Community Currencies (Not available in NUS Library. To request?)
Schumacher Centre for New Economics (on decentralised economic models)
Considerations in the Design of a Community Currency
- See Will Ruddick's YouTube Channel for how to design and implement a community currency
On Issuing and Backing a Community Currency
- See Will Ruddick on Issuing and Backing a Community Currency. Airdropped into a community, as a donation.