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    Youth Employment via Elderly/Vulnerable Support
    Will Ruddick
    • Jan 28
    • 1 min

    Youth Employment via Elderly/Vulnerable Support

    Using a basic income (Sarafu in Kenya) youth can support their elderly and vulnerable by giving them their Sarafu. Then those elderly/vul...
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    Municipal Basic Income (MBI) via CIC
    Will Ruddick
    • Jan 23
    • 2 min

    Municipal Basic Income (MBI) via CIC

    Consider the value in decentralized, municipally supported economies (networks of MBIs) - building and supporting local as well as regional
    154 views0 comments
    Static vs Bonded Liquidity Pools for CICs
    Will Ruddick
    • Jan 16
    • 3 min

    Static vs Bonded Liquidity Pools for CICs

    As communities create their Community Inclusion Currencies as a credit against their future production, projects and excess capacity, Gra...
    148 views0 comments
    Community Currencies and DEX Multitudes
    Will Ruddick
    • Jan 7
    • 3 min

    Community Currencies and DEX Multitudes

    Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Contracts contain multitudes. There are nearly infinite ways to use them to connect blockchain contracts (li...
    166 views0 comments
    How to Build a Vulnerable Household Support Network
    Will Ruddick
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    How to Build a Vulnerable Household Support Network

    Utilizing and developing Community Currencies can support, strengthen and identify a social safety nets around vulnerable households.
    103 views0 comments
    Currency Supply, Taxation and Redistribution
    Will Ruddick
    • Dec 6, 2020
    • 6 min

    Currency Supply, Taxation and Redistribution

    What does a decentralized economic system look like?
    236 views0 comments
    Strong Communities - Strong Currencies
    Janet Akinyi
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Strong Communities - Strong Currencies

    I had the pleasure to visit Kwe Kende in Nyalgunga, Siaya County one of the strongest groups (chamas) in the Sarafu Network across Kenya,...
    238 views0 comments
    CIC Indices for SDGs
    Will Ruddick
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    CIC Indices for SDGs

    By encouraging circular trade within communities humanitarian aid can build basic circulatory systems for support and resilience.
    146 views0 comments
    Network Integrity is Priceless
    Will Ruddick
    • Nov 7, 2020
    • 7 min

    Network Integrity is Priceless

    It is well know that - In a world where you can buy or sell anything - integrity is priceless. This is just as true when everything can b...
    173 views0 comments
    Food Forests and Syntropic Currencies
    Will Ruddick
    • Oct 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    Food Forests and Syntropic Currencies

    Regenerating soil while practically providing crops and long term food forests is actually possible!
    568 views0 comments
    How to Host a Currency Potluck
    Will Ruddick
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 4 min

    How to Host a Currency Potluck

    Let's get the potlucks started! Here is a short introduction to the methods we use for Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) potlucks!
    397 views0 comments
    ReCommoning - Chama Cycles for Governance & Debt Reboot
    Will Ruddick
    • Jul 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    ReCommoning - Chama Cycles for Governance & Debt Reboot

    We are learning together about this absolutely virtuous cycle of ReCommoning.
    234 views1 comment
    CIC Training from Response to Recovery
    Will Ruddick
    • Jul 11, 2020
    • 4 min

    CIC Training from Response to Recovery

    The end effect is that communities have a way to create their own credit systems for supporting themselves responsibly with both social and
    202 views0 comments
    Collateral Bonded Gas for Block Validation
    Will Ruddick
    • Jun 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Collateral Bonded Gas for Block Validation

    In order to spread adoption of a new economic models that heal economic trauma and use blockchain as a source of truth that connects us...
    138 views0 comments
    Currency 123 (Back, Guarantee, Open)
    Will Ruddick
    • May 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    Currency 123 (Back, Guarantee, Open)

    A Community Inclusion Currency (CIC) is way to transparently establish a credit system to enable local markets to thrive and link togethe...
    397 views0 comments
    Demystifying Currency Creation and Backing
    Will Ruddick
    • Apr 18, 2020
    • 7 min

    Demystifying Currency Creation and Backing

    Once upon a time a goat herder counted his herd and found 100 goats (some old and some young). That was a nice surprise. He estimated a m...
    536 views0 comments
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