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]]>His specialties are program development, research, data analysis, agent based modeling, computer simulation, monitoring and evaluation, complementary currencies, informal settlements, environmental programs, cooperatives.
In this episode, Will talks to us about his work over the past eleven years, organizing micro-entrepreneurs in poor areas of Kenya. Central to his work has been the creation of community currencies that have enabled a greater amount of trading and utilization of capacity in those communities. Recently, Will and his associates have been implementing digital forms of those currencies, and networking communities together in a wide area exchange system.
Grassroots Economics, https://www.grassrootseconomics.org
“Through community currencies people have a way to exchange goods and services and incubate new businesses, without relying on scarce national currency and volatile markets.”
Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies, https://youtu.be/ojFPrVvpraU
How to Give People the Same Power As Banks, https://youtu.be/PfEW2atiB4s
Unblock HongKong – Interview with Will Ruddick – Director at BANCOR, https://youtu.be/OagQNEecZhA
M-Pesa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
This interview with Will Ruddick was conducted 2019 April 30.
Reposted from the Beyond Money Podcast
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