UnMoney Convergence Topics

Tomorrow is the UnMoney Convergence – an un-conference about all sorts of topics related to money, currency, land, value, reputation, identity.
Here are the topics that people are hoping to discuss:

• Collaborative Consumption and Sharing
• new currencies
• How we can work together to make the movement for community currencies stronger and more synergistic.
• BACE Timebank- open source currency
• What are the best ways we can move from the current debt based, imperial economic system towards a life serving, peaceful, gift economy?
• where are the most inspiring, promising, transition currencies being conceptualized, implemented, how can we work together to help them go viral and allow people to move their money from the old system towards creating a better alternative structure.
• Fostering robust public debate on creating “public money” so that legitimate governments can fund activities which serve people and planet rather than threaten them.
• Deep Wealth and new currencies as an emerging language of value. A Living Systems Model of Wealth
• The role of co-operatives in startup investment.
• how to enable trust agility?
• governance, mobile payments oauth/opentransact
• Designing Intentional Community Economic Systems
• “Co-Creating Community Economics as a Path of the Heart”
• Working together, can we do more than just taking care than our respective unmoney “babies/pets”.
• Going from niches to relevance.
• Emotions in money experiments: dealing with fears
• Crowdfinancing! technical development values based investing
• How are other people designing an ecosystem of currencies to create engines of social action?
• designing currencies as/like games
• social ecosystem design and the use of currencies
• work-share
• micro credit;
• time dollars
• How to manage debt in a web based on distribution of small composable documents.
• Ripple, Metacurrency, actual usage
• What does unmoney tell us about changing relationships between incentives and motivation? How unmoney works as incentive and /or motivation
• What does unmoney tell us about changing relationships between incentives and motivation?
• How unmoney works as incentive and /or motivation
• How do we teach about these alternative forms of currency and economics to potential early adopters?
• Which of these different approaches are approaching reality?
• What are the most pragmatic and useful? Who is making progress on deployment?
• Teaching about money in a Sustainable MBA curriculum.
• What kinds of alternative currencies are being used and thriving in local communities?
• What are all the alternative types of currency – i.e. time banking, etc. Perspective of a young person coming of age and recognizing there are different ways to engage with money, currency and economics.
• What is a sensible balance between social customs and accounting systems in the economics of the near future?
• Currency backing methods
• Mutual credit systems, small-scale democracy
• What is the best example of alternative currency active today?
• What is the best model that needs to be tested?
• Where are the communities of trust willing to test a promising model?
• Friendly Barter – A model of a cashless online payment developed with Tom Greco this last Winter.
• How to share deeper value and wealth together and build an economy based on this sort of wealth.
• How to share deeper value and wealth together and build an economy based on this sort of wealth.
• Particularly interested in alternative and parallel currencies The potential for mobile phones to disrupt in the alternative currency space