How do you have a proper checkers tournament when no one can pay the entry fees? Jacob the organizer saw an opportunity. His neighbors in...
Articles by Will Ruddick
By Will Ruddick
Investment Modelling in Community Inclusion Currencies
While Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) have been shown to increase local trade they can also be a vehicle for collective share...
By Will Ruddick
2019 Data Release - 92k Kenyan blockchain translations
With every transaction being logged anonymously on a public blockchain we have unprecedented insight into what living below the poverty...
By Will Ruddick
Economies into Ecosystems
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
By Will Ruddick
Enabling Leverage
By exploring this space and enabling leverage we can open the door to truly decentralized financial services. If credit can be safely issued
By Will Ruddick
Banking on the SILC Road
Rarely in development work do you see an intervention that sprouts its own two legs and starts running across the country without donor fund
By Will Ruddick
Refugee Inclusive Community Currencies (RICCs)
Responding to Refugee Crisis This is the current and biggest humanitarian global crisis in our lifetimes and we all need to play a part....
By Will Ruddick
Shrimp Fishing Builds an Economy
Fishermen pay for their children’s school fees by selling shrimp to a cooperative with a freezer for storage. Women buy the shrimp and cook
By Will Ruddick
100+ new Blockchain Wallets in One Day – Fighting Rural Food Insecurity
Rural communities are adopting blockchain based community currencies at an astounding pace! 100+ new users in one day represents nearly...
By Will Ruddick
300 Bob - a money story
This is a story I often tell to being to discuss what money is and what it could be. It is derived from a German tale. One day a Mama...
