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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > While Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) have been shown to increase local trade they can also be a vehicle for collective share...< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > With every transaction being logged anonymously on a public blockchain we have unprecedented insight into what living below the poverty...< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > The reserve behind these tokens, the actual aid funding, was about $2.5k USD).This means that $2,500 USD of Aid funds created 10,000 tokens< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > By exploring this space and enabling leverage we can open the door to truly decentralized financial services. If credit can be safely issued< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > Rarely in development work do you see an intervention that sprouts its own two legs and starts running across the country without donor fund< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > Sarafu stands at the fore-front of digital community currencies offering novel ways to learn about the inner workings of local exchange syst< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > " Community Currencies have enabled food insecure communities to sustainably feed themselves post Red Cross support" - Mwanamuna Sw< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > So far, after roughly 6 months of piloting we've witnessed 40,000 blockchain transactions! So what does that actually mean?< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p class = "first last" > Responding to Refugee Crisis This is the current and biggest humanitarian global crisis in our lifetimes and we all need to play a part....< / p >
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< div class = "entry-content" > < p > Community-based savings and loans are often what keep under-resourced economies afloat. In Kenya, these savings groups or < em > chamas< / em > , as they are locally known, are an important source of funds in times of scarcity. We zone in on some of the women who use Sarafu to show how the community currency …< / p > < / div > <!-- /.entry - content -->
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