International Conference on Community Currencies

[Lucie Stephens]

It's been my experience that many people involved in developing co-production work are linking to community currencies to support their work. If you are this conference might be of interest!

The 2^nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems will be held from the 19^th to the 23^rd of June 2013 in The Hague, The Netherlands. The conference will be hosted by the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University.

The conference is bilingual (English and Spanish), with sessions organized in either language. It offers space to academics, local government officials and practitioners alike to organize panels, workshops, and other session formats that participants see fit to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences.

Community and complementary currency systems include initiatives like the LETS, time banks, the Argentine Redes de Trueque, the Ithaca Hours in the USA, the German Regiogeld, the Brasilian community banks with surrogate currencies, the SOL currency in France, the ‘Transition Towns’ in the UK, the RES in Belgium and the Wir in Switzerland, mobile-phone payment systems in Uganda and Kenya, and for digital remittances in El Salvador.