Here are more resources on the Open Money concept, technologies and projects.
These are the tags I use on delicious to store and organize all the links about Open Money and Local Currencies:
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+money
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+open_money
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+local_currency
Some Twitter users you should follow:
http://twitter.com/openmoney
http://twitter.com/metacurrency
http://twitter.com/newcurrency
http://twitter.com/thetransitioner
http://twitter.com/fer_ananda
http://twitter.com/jfnoubel
http://twitter.com/flowplace
http://twitter.com/myrfa
http://twitter.com/zippy314

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Locality, Open Money

Beside Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Manufacturing, there is another path the Open Everything phenomenon is taking: Open Money. Although the Open Money projects are in their early steps, they represent a very important strategic and metadesign move in order to enable the spreading of community-based open and p2p organizational forms.
The open money project aims [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Enabler, Locality, Meta-design, Money, Open Money, Peer-to-Peer, Platform

01. Net-Map: a social network analysis toolbox
Net-Map is a visualization and facilitation tool developed by Eva Schiffer that can be very useful for design processes for/with Community/Locality Systems.

Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals [...]

Tags: Community, Design Methodology, Locality, Low-tech, Social Network, Social Network Analysis, Tool, Visualization

After the first post and second post about Open Architectural Design at MIT, here you can find a thesis about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) developed by Kalaya Kovidvisith at MIT and submitted on June 2007: “Open Source Building Alliance Ecology. The Internet Framework for Consumer Driven Participative Design”.
The primary purpose of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Community, Mass-customization, Technology

Max Barret,
Social Circles

Everyone
A Venn diagram, drawn with light, showing
the 5 different sets of social databases I use:
Hotmail.com contacts, Facebook.com friends,
Myspace.com friends, MSN messenger
contacts and those in my mobile phonebook.
A total of 259 people.

via | manystuff.org

Tags: Community, Graphic Design, Maps, Social Network, Web 2.0

After my first impressions, here is my slideshow I used on the first day of UrbanLabs. I was given the possibility to held a brief presentation before the participants in the group proposed some projects and then started to gather in order to talk about those projects.
We all were not sure about presentations, because we [...]

Tags: City, Community, Innovation, Open P2P Communities, Social Innovation, Spain

A week after UrbanLabs 08, I can finally write a post (the first of 3 posts) with my general impressions about it while I caught the flu!
It was an event that I’ve been waiting for since several months, and that by its nature it was very quickly between so many changes in language between [...]

Tags: City, Community, Innovation, Social Innovation, Spain, Technology