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

A quick announcement: Michel Bauwens, Belgian philosopher and Peer-to-Peer theorist, founder of the P2P Foundation, is going to be in Milan in these days and he’s going to give two lectures.
Here’s the first one:

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: [...]

Tags: Crisis, Economy, Peer-to-Peer, University

After the first post, here I suggest you another report from Nordic Innovation Centre, a longer and more detailed one, edited by Emily Wise and Casper Høgenhaven: “User-Driven Innovation. Context and Cases in the Nordic Region“.

In this report, user-driven innovation is defined as the process of tapping users’ knowledge in order to develop new products, [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Economy, Innovation, Northern Europe

The concept of Open Hardware arrived even on the Economist’s pages too.

Companies, for their part, say an open approach can help them get to market quickly with products that give customers what they want—without the need for market research. Such advantages, they say, outweigh the drawbacks of exposing what are usually seen as corporate secrets.

In [...]

Tags: Economy, Open Hardware

“User-driven innovation: when the user makes the difference”

The report is the result of an extensive pilot-project with an aim of clarifying the awareness and use of user-driven innovation in the Nordic countries.
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This report is written, during the spring of 2007, by a group of students from the Norwegian University of Science And Technology (NTNU) in [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Economy, Innovation

“Green Tomorrows: the Scenarios” (Jamais Cascio)

A very interesting post by Jamais Cascio, about four different possible future scenarios, with sustainability, technology and organizational forms in mind. We should note that, according to him, open source and distributed organizational forms can lead to two different scenarios, a positive one and a negative one.
Yes, open and peer-to-peer [...]

Tags: Economy, Institutions, Sociology, Sustainability