I had the good fortune to be invited along to a Tudor Trust seminar on local currencies with Forum friend Bernard Lietaer and a number of the alternative and complementary currency issuers from around the UK, ranging from a Welsh time bank to the Brixton Pound. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear what’s going on on the “front line”.
Now, I must be honest and admit that I was attending with a slightly mercenary bent, because I as looking to see if any of these experiments might inform new products and services being developed by our customers in the financial and telecommunications sector. As I have often said, I don’t know what all this means, but I’m sure it means something!
These opinions are my own (I think) and presented solely in my capacity as an interested member of the general public [[posted with ecto]]

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