Category: Pilots

Sperimentare circuiti monetari complementari. Il progetto europeo D-Cent – di Gabriele Toccaceli
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Link to the original article: http://effimera.org/sperimentare-circuiti-monetari-complementari-il-progetto-europeo-d-cent-di-gabriele-toccaceli

L’articolo che qui pubblichiamo contribuisce ad approfondire alcuni aspetti dei circuiti di moneta complementare che sfruttano le più recenti tecnologie riconoscendo al contempo la necessità di evitare che le regole relative all’emissione monetaria siano risolte senza una discussione politica bottom-up. Sono aspetti emersi nel convegno sulla Moneta del Comune tenutosi a Milano il 21 e 22 giugno 2014 (i cui atti sono stati pubblicati da Alfabeta in collaborazione con Derive/Approdi) come anche più di recente, il 3 e 4 ottobre scorso, nel convegno organizzato da Effimera “Sovvertire l’infelicità”. Read more +

ICT 2015: Innovate, Connect, Transform
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ICT2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform was held on the 20-22 October in Lisbon, Portugal. The 3-day event is EU’s biggest digital research event in 2015. It attracted more than 7000 ICT professionals. The conference discussed how to make a fully digitised economy and society a reality in Europe. D-CENT was showcasing its tools in the exhibition area among around 100 best-in-class results of European ICT Research & Innovation projects. Read more +

On Freecoin, Blockchains and the future of money: an interview with Jaromil
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Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website. 

Denis Rojo aka Jaromil

Picture: Alexander Klink

Denis Roio (aka Jaromil) is a researcher in philosophy of technology, artist and software artisan whose creations are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. He has been involved in Bitcoin since the early days and since 2000 he has been dedicated to building Dyne.org, a software house gathering the contributions of a growing number of developers who value social responsibility above profit.

Jaromil is leading D-CENT development of Freecoin, a blockchain-enabled digital social currency and has been invited at the reinvent.money event on the 26th of September by organiser Paul Buitink to explore the opportunities of Bitcoin beyond its function as currency.

 

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When a movement becomes a party: the experiment of Barcelona en Comù and the new network of Spanish democratic cities
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Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.

Four years after the emergence of the revolutionary networked social movement 15M, the newly formed Spanish political party Podemos is now one of the most innovative, growing political parties in Spain and just over three months ago the grassroots citizen-led coalition Barcelona En Comù won the City Council elections in Barcelona forming a network of new democratic Cities that include also Madrid, Zaragoza, Pamplona and others. Read more +

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