Stadin Aikapankkibeats to the ryhtm of equity, reciprocity and
solidarity
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
• 486 members around Helsinki
• > 600 offerings, 125 members have exchanged, 247 exchanges since October 2009, 620 tovia.
• Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kouvula, Lahti, Mäntsälä, Oulu, Parainen, Pori, Raasepori, Tampere, Turku.
• Core group. Different backgrounds and talents, 100% volunteer efforts.
STAP Timeline
• 3.9.2009 in Kumpula .....
...Local currency? No : Timebanking! For us it was important that:Everyone’s time, work and needs are of equal value >local democracy > economic options. Alternative to money, Alternative Bank, Alternative means of exchange.
• www.ces.org.za Community Exchange Systems. International!
• ..... 3.10.2009 Kumpulan Vaihtopiiri, 10 Kumpenni/t CES
STAP Timeline
Mobilisation and participatory democracy in the exchange circle :Info eveningsMembership newsletters Member evenings 7.4.2010 Kumpulassa (20p), 23.8.2010 Kumpulassa>Core group
100 members 18.3.2010; 200 members 9.5.2010; 300 members14.8.2010
Wanted to reinforce identity as Timebank+ Helsinki wide membership:
• .... 5.5.2010 Stadin Aikapankki, 1 tovi = 1 tuntiwww.stadinaikapankki.wordpress.com
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
Equity
Enlarging the definition of work
Enabling
Reciprocity
Everyone becomes a giver and receiver, everyone is needed
> Respect and trust
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
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
Person to Person
Agency to Agency
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 realisation of the potential of Timebanking.
The possibilities of Timebanking are unlimited.
Timebanking as an exchange tool towards a Solidarity
economy• The banking of time along the principles of Timebanking
• Timebanking as a critical reflection on market economy and its drive for accumulation.
• part of the opening up of alternative economic space, spaces of a solidarity economy, with its practices based on cooperation, equality, diversity and self determination.
Tampereen aikapankki
www.ces.org.za
(join the community exchange system)• [email protected]
Klo 18, ravintola Kahvila (Aaltosenkatu 31-33)
Tervetuloa!
