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)• oscar.fresan@kaapeli.fi

Klo 18, ravintola Kahvila (Aaltosenkatu 31-33)

Tervetuloa!