via Anders betalen begint met anders denken – Verslag, presentaties, breakoutsessies en een filmpje | LvDO.

De jaarlijkse conferentie van Platform DSE is deze keer geheel gewijd aan de financiële sector en de crisis. Met inspirerende verhalen van onder andere Bernard Lietaer en Francine Mestrum

Met scherpe analyses van de onderliggende problemen. En met een keur aan praktische oplossingen.

De ochtend wordt voornamelijk besteed aan het schetsen van de huidige stand van zaken van de economie en aanwijzen van de grootste problemen en de verantwoordelijken daarvoor. In de middag komen ‘fundamentele deel-oplossingen’ aan bod, zoals regulering van banken en financiële markten, herziening van belastingen, duurzame investeringen, anders lobbyen en de rol en kansen van regionale valuta.

Deelname kost 15,- /50,- /100,- euro al naar gelang inkomen en positie inclusief servicekosten. De toegangskaarten zijn inclusief twee consumpties.

via Geld draait de wereld door – Debat & programma – De Rode Hoed.

Onder de titel Anders betalen begint met anders denken vond dinsdag 17 januari het druk bezochte congres over community currencies plaats dat LvDO in samenwerking met Qoin organiseerde. Cees van Straten namens LvDO: ‘Het is hoog tijd voor een frisse blik op ons financieel economisch systeem. Een systeem met meerdere lokale valuta – community currencies – zoals de Brixton Pound, is diverser en dus robuuster. Bovendien bieden alternatieve betalingsmiddelen de mogelijkheid om gemeenschappen daadwerkelijk bij maatschappelijke vraagstukken te betrekken.’

via Anders betalen begint met anders denken – Verslag, presentaties, breakoutsessies en een filmpje | LvDO.

via Muntuit » ‘New Money for a New World’ nieuw boek B. Lietaer en S. Belgin.

Location: Rotterdam – garden room large downstairs

Date: Thu, 19 January 2012 20:00 – 22:30

Description: Who are Occupy? What are bonds, and what is a fractional reserve? What were the consequences of letting go of the gold standard? And are there similarities between this crisis and 1929? Tonight is the first of two film evenings that we will devote to illuminating some of the basics of our monetary system by showing fragments of documentaries and other film material about “Money”. Part 2 will take place on Thursday, January 26th.

Price: Bring your critical attitude AND some food & drinks to share.

Registration: Please rsvp to carolien_hoogland@me.com

via The Hub Rotterdam.

Een citaat uit de Nieuwsbrief van STRO:
In December 2011, STRO launched the latest version of Cyclos (3.6). This version has many new features and improvements such as a better layout, improved POS (Point Of Sale) module, support for credit/debit cards, a mobile (SMS) banking module and better scalability. The new mobile banking module opens opportunities to address new sectors, such as remittances, consumer loyalty programs, mobile shops, cash-in cash-out services, taxi payments, campus payment systems, prepaid cards, and low cost ATM’s.

Feature list

On-line (home) banking
- Dashboard page with status overview, quick access and message board
- Complete account summary / history (supports print and export)
- Payments (quick payment, installments, scheduled and authorizations)
- Fees & taxes (contribution, transaction fee, demurrage and interest)
- Send & manage invoices
- Loans with possible loan group management for micro finance projects
- Account operators (a user can create operators and assign permissions)
- Personal alerts & notifications

E-commerce
- Market place (offers & wants)
- Alerts for advertisement matching personal interests
- Member directory
- Messaging module
- Brokering / agents module
- Business referrals and transaction qualifications

Mobile Banking
- Sign-up by SMS
- Simple payment (to other users or administration)
- Payment request (two-way payment)
- Retrieve account information (optional browse through pages)
- Notifications & alerts (personal and general alerts and notifications)
- SMS mailings (from administration and agents)
- Bank and Telecom provider independent
- Custom SMS operations (add new operations)

POS (Point of Sale) / Cards
- Debit / credit card support
- Security options: PIN, security card code, OTP (one time password)
- On-line card management (activate/cancel/block card and reset/block PIN)
- POS (Point Of Sale) cash-in cash-out payments
- Print daily transaction overview on POS
- Manage POS devices on-line (activate, deactivate and block)

System features
- Account & user management
- Import tools (users and advertisements)
- Content management (translations, pages, images and styles)
- System alerts & logging
- Reports & Statistics
- System tasks (e.g. set system offline and indexing)
- Easy maintenance (all data stored in database and automatic upgrades)
- Strong security (bank level security implementation)
- Programming interface for communication with 3rd party software

“Capacity exchange development presents untapped opportunity for London

The development of an innovative, global capacity exchange hub in London could improve productivity by reducing marginal spare capacity, stimulating innovation and providing an alternative to conventional credit, according to a new report released today commissioned by the City of London Corporation, Recipco and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Capacity Trade and Credit: Emerging Architectures for Commerce and Money highlights how businesses with spare capacity in their own goods, services or infrastructure – often the case in economic downturns – could utilise their surplus via an exchange to ‘finance’ the purchase of other goods and services that they need. Capacity exchanges have the potential to offer SMEs and larger businesses an alternative credit stream in the face of a challenging environment for conventional credit as banks rebuild bank balance sheets.

According to some reports, 20% of global trade (over US$ 100bn) takes place in non-monetary exchanges. Capacity trading across the world has traditionally taken the form of simple bartering, which involves two parties – commonly SMEs in local or national trading networks – settling a transaction through a flow of goods or services rather than sovereign currencies – or cash. This form of exchange has traditionally been seen as less efficient than monetary trade since it requires finding a suitable counterparty at one point in time and is often contractually more complex.

In contrast, the internet-based multilateral exchange discussed in the report could potentially lower transaction costs through market clearing. The report finds that London is uniquely placed to facilitate the expansion in scale needed for larger government and multinational organisations to utilise capacity trading more effectively. “

Download the full Capacity Trade and Credit report (203 pages, 3Mb)

Download Executive Summary (21 pages, 721Kb)

Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organisations.

In TEDxTransmedia he denounces the crisis in the monetary system.

“This system of money creation – as debt with interest – means that increasing economic inequality – differences between rich and poor – is a mathematical certainty.”

“The second biggest problem is environmental: Because we need more and more lending to catch up – because of all the interest – we must have more and more products and services traded and therefore we have to have more and more consumption of natural resources, otherwise the system will collapse and we’ll have defaults, recession etc.”

“All we’re doing is delaying the ultimate crash – that’s been preprogrammed by the stupid money system…”

“42 million webpages mention “financial crisis”. Guess how many of those also mention “monetary reform”! Just over hundred thousand.”

“What if journalists asked our politicians the simplest of questions: Where does money come from?“

Laatste update: 8 november 2011 12:45 info

EMMELOORD – Als het aan de fractie van de samenwerkende partijen ChristenUnie en SGP in de Noordoostpolder ligt, krijgt de Flevolandse gemeente binnenkort een eigen munteenheid. Dat zei ChristenUnie-SGP fractielid Leo Voorberg dinsdag.

De partij denkt dat een eigen munt leidt tot meer uitgaven in de gemeente en versterking van de economie. De munteenheid moet ‘Schokker’ gaan heten en zal alleen binnen de gemeentegrenzen geldig zijn. De munt moet naast de euro bestaan. De partij verzekerde dat het geen grap of publiciteitsstunt betreft.

Donderdag dient de fractie een voorstel in tijdens de raadsvergadering.

via CU-SGP wil eigen munt voor Noordoostpolder | nu.nl/economie | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl.