Community Networks Meet Community Currencies

This manual is all about building bottom-up infrastructure, specifically an intervention to bootstrap: 1) A community inclusion currency (voucher) in your community to amplify local markets (this system is powered by the Grassroots Economics Community Inclusion Currency Platform); 2) A local community network and a local content and services platform to move control and ownership of the network to actors in the community and amplify the creation, sharing and curation of locally relevant content and services (this system is powered by the iNethi platform). These two decentralized worlds (community inclusion currencies and locally owned networks, content and services) have been integrated and users are, for example, able to purchase internet vouchers and other digital services on the iNethi platform with a community inclusion currency (voucher).

Author

David Johnson and Keegan White (iNethi) and Will Ruddick (Grassroots Economics)

Year Published

2023

Country / Region of focus

Global South

Complexity

No prior knowledge required but useful if a trainer or facilitator is present who has content knowledge

Keyword

Network Type

Wireless Network

License Type

​Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 ​

Item Type

​Training Guide​

Language

English

Specific Subject - Social

Organizational and Business Models

Specific Subject - Technical

Local content and services

Specific Subject - Economic

Budgeting accounting and billing

Specific Subject - Regulatory

N/A

Gender Perspective

No

Accesible to people with visual or hearing impairments

No

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