The current reality is that following Covid-19 many have fallen deeper and deeper into debt. However, most individuals would still not...
By Will Ruddick
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...
By Will Ruddick
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
By Will Ruddick
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,...
By Will Ruddick
Community Currencies and DEX Multitudes
Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Contracts contain multitudes. There are nearly infinite ways to use them to connect blockchain contracts...
By Will Ruddick
2020 Kenyan CICs in Review
We’re extremely excited about using CICs for developing support networks for vulnerable communities and households, and especially food syst
Regenerative Agriculture - Field Visit Report
The motivation given by accepting community currency will eventually be repaid with their ability to use it to purchase food from the farm.
By Will Ruddick
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.
By Will Ruddick
Currency Supply, Taxation and Redistribution
What does a decentralized economic system look like?
By Janet Akinyi
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,...
