The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 Report on Complementary Currency Innovations from the Field Gilson Schwartz

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 The City of Knowledge is a research project founded in 2001 at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (IEA-USP), Brazil. Envisioned as a living network, it could be described as a “digital city” built by “communities of practice” that develop new space-time frameworks for the production of cultural identities and collective intelligence. In an optimistic scenario, the democratization of knowledge creating networks could be the foundation for a developmental “leap”, especially through the improvement of human development indicators.

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 The Mission of the City of Knowledge at the University of São Paulo is to promote research and development that favor public, community or cooperative use of new digital information and communication technologies in Brazil. See the position paper "Knowledge City: a Digital Knowware" presented in the "development by design“workshop, MIT/ThinkCycle project.

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 USP founded in 1934 in a historical period marked by important social, political and cultural transformations by decision of the Governor of São Paulo, one of its intellectual mentors was Júlio Mesquita Filho, editor- in-chief of the O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper, offers 617 courses, 130 of which are undergraduate courses attended by approximately 45,000 students, and 487 are graduate courses (including 257 for masters' and 230 for doctors' degrees). USP confers an average of 4,600 bachelor or equivalent diplomas each year and 40% of all PhDs in Brazil, the university community comprises 4,705 teachers and 14,659 other employees.

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 The City of Knowledge proposes a collective, nation-wide sensitization, mobilization and consultation on the design and workings of the future society (already materializing in the 21 st century) through hands-on networked action-research projects. This process will involve groups from all levels and ranks, resembling in its form a network that formally mutates according to waves of social and institutional innovation. It is rather a network of networks, whose development is induced by an agenda in that focuses on 3 issues: complementary currencies, open source software and cultural change in favor of Brazilian expressions of culture, education, technology and knowledge.

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 Ministry of Communications Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Social Development Ministry of Justice Ministry of Planning Ministry of Defence Civil House – ITI Natl. Council of Social and Economic Development – “ Concertartion”

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 Cultural Money for workshops, telecenter G$ (garatuis) New habits Lifelong learning New Products Services

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 Planning Telecenter Workshops

The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency Solutions, Naropa University/Access Foundation, March, 19-21, 2004 Activities in 2004 Telecenter in Sibauma Second round of workshops Telecenter in the Baturite’ Central Bank and other State Financial institutions: persuasion and monitoring SPiN: network mills in underserved communities in other regions Intl. Conference