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
(more…)

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 to create the global infrastructure, tools, governance mechanisms and platforms that will give communities the capacity to create their own currencies with just a few clicks and thereby liberate their wealth potential.¹

We should note that these examples of Open Money can be understood as metacurrencies (and here comes the Metacurrency project), because Open Money projects are the design of the rules and artifacts needed for the design of a community’s own currency. Open Money projects will be for sure an important part of any platform for Open P2P Design projects (that are metadesign projects of open collaborative systems).

Here is a great video (with subtitles available) from the Wall Street Journal that clearly explains the Open Money concept and other similar projects:

Just as there are now millions of media outlets today, currencies will follow this same evolution by shifting from centralized authoritative models to distributed ones that allow better sustainability, distribution, transparency, and regulation mechanisms. Every community (associations, companies, cities, regions, states, professions, interest groups, etc) will be able to create their own currencies for their own marketplace.²

And here is another video (with subtitles) about the Metacurrency project:

Notes:

1. http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Money [↩]
2. http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Money [↩]