Local Currency Council’s First Interactive Online Conference.
We are scheduling guests who will be presenting on a variety of topics, and joining in various group discussions. Our first participants come from the UK, Toronto Canada, and Washington DC, as well as from our home base in Eugene, Oregon, making this an international conference. You are welcome to contact us in regards to scheduling a presentation, or to provide any relevant materials including videos, graphics, example currency designs, and anything else you feel appropriate. If you need help with setting up your web cam and microphone we will be posting information here and running several tests before the broadcast. We will be listing topics and speakers here, so please check back, or sign our mailing list to receive updates.
The Local Currency Council serves as an advocacy group dedicated to preserving the fundamentals rights of self-governing local-economic systems. We provide a communication platform for developers and supporters of local currency systems.
Local currencies help to ensure a community’s survival economically and socially. Often created in the face of financial crisis, these currencies have served as a lifeline to their communities. In our current global financial climate, success of a local currency system may mean the difference between strife and survival.
Exchange is one of mankind’s most basic and demonstrated rights. LCC believes local currencies are an established basic right and basic need, preceding state, federal, and global controls. In a balanced scenario your local currency would interact with national and global currencies, but also stand on it’s own, weathering the changing conditions outside it’s local sphere. The LCC has been established as a private member association, a peer-to-peer private-contract forum.
To further the communication, cooperation, and fellowship of the various currencies, the LCC has been formed to assist in bringing these community voices into a common platform from which we can stand strong and help other communities, as well as our own, to further embrace and flourish in their own self-worth and commerce.
Please join us and let your voice be heard.
I have developed a system (LocalMart) which establishes a local currency and gives it an internet Ecommerce capability. Each vendor/provider gets a web site presence and shopping cart, with the local currency used for payment for online purchases. It also has the capability to make local currency payments or funds transfers via mobile phone, making the issuance of a paper local currency almost unnecessary. LocalMart encourages all members to become providers of some locally produced, sustainable product or service so as to increase local self sufficiency and “close the loop” locally. LocalMart allows conversion to and from the local currency to dollars(or other fiat currency), and has other features including a microloan capability and social networking site so that members can interact, form or join groups, and otherwise communicate.
I would like to begin to implement this and would welcome a discussion if there is any interest. My web sites are:
http://www.localmart.net/
http://www.local-currency.org/
http://www.thealternativeeconomy.org/
Bruce Colley
Lafayette, California
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