Stadin Aikapankkiand

Coproduction

Ruby van der Wekken 2010STAP logo and drawings Sanna Pellicioni

What is Stadin Aikapankki

• Services are exchanged online against time. 1 tovi for 1 hour of work. • Operates according to the principles of Timebanking

• International exchange system www.ces.org.za

• 450 members around Helsinki

• > 600 offerings, 98 members have exchanged, 221 exchanges since October 2009, 540 tovia.

• Jyväskylä, Kouvula, Lahti, Mäntsälä, Oulu, Pori, Tampere, Turku,

• Core group . Different backgrounds and talents, 100% volunteer efforts.

STAP Timeline

• 3.9.2009 in Kumpula .....

Finding out more from Oulu, LETS ?

22.9 www.ces.org.za Community Exchange Systems. International!

29.9 met with Helsingin vaihtopiiri, >manual - but : timebank!

...Local currency? No : Timebanking!

For us it was important that:

Everyone’s time, work and needs are of equal value; Everyone can take part, give and receive; Everyone is needed.

>local democracy > economic options.

Alternative to money, Alternative Bank, Alternative means of exchange.

• ..... 3.10.2009 Kumpulan Vaihtopiiri, 10 Kumpenni/t CES

STAP Aikajana

Mobilisation and participatory democracy in the exchange circle :Info eveningsMembership newsletters (7)Media IS 3.4. + HS 10.4.2010 Member evenings 7.4.2010 Kumpulassa (20p), 23.8.2010 Kumpulassa>Core group

100 members 18.3.2010; 200 members9.5.2010; 300 members14.8.2010

Wanted to reinforce identity as Timebank+ Helsinki wide growth:

• .... 5.5.2010 Stadin Aikapankki, 1 tovi = 1 tuntiFleyer, www.stadinaikapankki.wordpress.com

How to start a Timebank in the CES system?

• Form a core group

• Do take contact, Stadin Aikapankki is glad to assist and has ready material to offer!

• Register your Timebank with CES

http://www.ces.org.za/misc/joinexchange.asp

• Stadin Aikapankki can provide you with own logo and flyer

• Info evenings can be organised together

STAP in the Media

• Vaihtopiiri pyörii , Tuuli H., 2009,Käpyla-lehteen

• IS 3.4.2010 Naapuriapua nettirahalla• HS 10.4.2010 Kumpulan vaihtopiirissä voi palvelun ostaa

palvelulla

• Maailman sosiaalifoorumi ja Aikapankin syntySuomen Sosiaalifoorumi 2010 -lehteen, Ruby vdW.

• Yle Uutiset 12.06.2010 Aikapankissa valuuttana toimii tovi

STAP in the Media

• Netissa vaihdetaan myös palveluksiaYhteishyvä Digipaper 8.10

• Aikapankissa vaihdetaan palveluita aika vastaanRoihuvuoren kylälehti 2/2010, Hanna K.

• 10.8 Yle Aikaisemmin

• Aikapankki on vaihtoehto pankkitoiminalle13.8 YleX Mielipidevankki

• Aikapankki ei lamakaan kaada15.8.2010 Elias Krohn Kansan Uutiset

STAP in the Media

• Aika vaihta pankkiinSonja Hyppänen, Voima 7/2010

• Stadin aikapankissa palvelu vaihtuu palveluunAnneli Tuominen-Halomo, Helsingin Uutiset 16.09.2010

• Aikapankit rantautuvat SuomeenMTV3 seitsemän uutiset, 16.10.2010.

Timebank cyclewww.timebanking.org / Sanna Pellicioni

Origins of Timebanking

• Edgar Cahn 60’s How to strengthen the core economy?:Family, neighbourhood, communityThe base of democracy, social justice, values as trust and reciprocityThe base of private and public sector

Capital does not value the core economy. Money > time. What if time would be medium of exchange?

• 1980 Time Dollar LSE www.timebanks.org

Timebank: exchange tool with values

Reciprocity

>Respect and trust

Equity

Enlarging the definition of work

People are assets

Social networks

Timebank achievements

New Economics Foundation NEF

Strengthens Core economy : ability to care and share for eachother; capacity for mutual and non materialistic exchanges Civic activity.

Gives people increasingly the opportunity to determine their own needs, how to fulfill them and how to develop their community

Increases a communties resilience. Ahead of social problems

QuickTime™ ja pakkauksen purkuohjelma

tarvitaan elokuvan katselemiseen.

Co-production

1970s Elinor Ostrom .... 1995 Edgar Cahn • Coproduction: people and society fare better when relations are based

on reciprocity and equality.

• Timebanking is a tool with values which makes Coproduction possible.

• Coproduction of social services Japani, UK, US

person to person person to agency agency to agency

QuickTime™ ja pakkauksen purkuohjelma

tarvitaan elokuvan katselemiseen.

Person to Person

Agency to Agency

Coproduction via Timebanking objectives : sustainable

wellbeing for all.

• empowerment for people to determine own and communities needs, development, and how to realise this.

• Ahead of social problems

• Sustainable use of resources.

Timebanking:Paradigm change

• to employ the existing skills and talents of citizens, to be caring, neighbour and citizen, so as to build a democratically inclusive society.

State and local decision makers have an important role to play in the ralisation of the potential of Timebanking

The possibilities of Timebanking are unlimited.

• Timebanking to be seen as a transformative exchange tool with values, which is one way to enable the opening up of alternative economic space, spaces of a solidarity economy, with its practices based on cooperation, equality, diversity and self determination.