[Scpg] April 14 alternative economics conference in Seattle

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2008 unMoney Convergence

April 14th-16th, 2008  |   Seattle, WA


_http://unmoney.wik.is/_ (http://unmoney.wik.is/) 
On  April 14th a group of social-entrepreneurs, academics, economists, 
bankers,  philanthropists, business men and woman, system changers, 
lenders, borrowers  and barter-ers will gather in Seattle for the 2008 
unMoney Convergence to  engage in an evolutionary conversation on money.

Other topics covered  will include micro-credit, slow money, local 
currencies, complementary  currencies, time dollars, retail trade 
exchanges, LETS, state of the art  transaction software and hardware 
technologies, money and spirituality,  ecological accounting, social 
venture and entrepreneurship, monetary theory,  value network mapping, 
equity sharing, energy backed currency,  organizational structures, 
gift economies, and barter.

Most of the  conference will be participant driven, the agenda will be 
created live over  the course of the event by those attending.  We 
will be predominantly  using Open Space Technology to organize 
ourselves.  Everyone attending  is welcome to present or lead a 
discussion about the topics they are  interested in.  Feel free to add 
a workshop and/or dicussion you would  like to attend, facilitate or 
lead on the <_http://unmoney.wik.is/Proposed_Topics>Proposed_ 
(http://unmoney.wik.is/Proposed_Topics>Proposed)  Topic  
page._http://unmoney.wik.is/Proposed_Topics_ 
(http://unmoney.wik.is/Proposed_Topics) 




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