via Alan Avans:
“P2P Foundation and the What Works Project are sponsoring a presentation by energy markets expert Chris Cook about alternate currencies, credit and trading systems based upon a partnership model known as Open Capital. Chris Cook is based in Scotland,UK.
The presentation will take place on Monday, July 23 at the Plaza Branch Library located at 4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64112 in the “Large Room.”
There are two sessions to choose from:A morning session from 9:00 A.M to 12:00 PM and an afternoon session from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Each session’s presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.
If you have an initiative, project or social enterprise involving food, energy, or housing that you would like to briefly summarize before the question and answer period, please contact Alan Avans at this email address:alavans(at)whatworksproject .com.
Chris Cook is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at University College London. Chris Cook’s background is in UK market regulation, latterly as a Director of the International Petroleum Exchange. In recent years, he has been a strategic market consultant and commentator, and has also been actively developing new partnership-based legal and financial structures or “enterprise models”.
“21st century problems can’t be solved by 20th Century solutions” Your business and your community can no longer rely on the banking sector. Banking as we’ve known it has been on life support since 2008. Conventional finance is transaction-based and centred upon intermediaries. The logic of the Internet – first demonstrated in the music industry – is for “Peer to Peer” finance and for a transition from financial intermediation to financial service provision. Instrumental in this transition is a new – emergent – approach to the legal and financial structures or “enterprise models” we take for granted. With a background of more than 20 years in top level market regulation and development, Chris Cook has fresh insights to offer, and financial products based upon them, including the basis for a regional mutual credit clearing platform for local currencies.”