grassroots-pelican - Articles by Will Ruddick

By Will Ruddick
Fri 06 December 2019

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
Wed 11 September 2019

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
Sun 16 June 2019

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
Wed 10 April 2019

Rural communities are adopting blockchain based community currencies at an astounding pace! 100+ new users in one day represents nearly...

By Will Ruddick
Sun 10 February 2019

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...

By Will Ruddick
Mon 04 February 2019

Bernard’s vision of diverse monetary eco-systems that support communities and the environment rather than extract from them, as they...

By Will Ruddick
Wed 23 January 2019

In our journey over the last few months building tools for community currencies on the blockchain to support healthy economies, a network...

By Will Ruddick
Fri 25 May 2018

The 5th installment of the Village Market Simulator series is now online! You can find it on YouTube or in the 'Simulations' section of...

By Will Ruddick
Thu 10 May 2018

We are very happy to announce that today, for the first time in our organizational history, the community currency members of the Nairobi...

By Will Ruddick
Thu 08 February 2018

The Miyani area in Kenya has been identified by Red Cross and the World Food Program as food insecure for over 5 years. Red Cross along...