Stadin Aikapankki and Coproduction Ruby van der Wekken

Stadin Aikapankki and Coproduction Ruby van der Wekken 2010 STAP 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 • • • 450 members around Helsinki > 600 offerings, 98 members have exchanged, 221 exchanges since October 2009, 540 tovia. Jyväskylä, Kouvula, Lahti, Mäntsälä, Oulu, Pori, Tampere, Turku, • Core group. Different backgrounds and talents, 100% volunteer efforts.

STAP Timeline • 3. 9. 2009 in Kumpula. . . Finding out more from Oulu, LETS ? 22. 9 www. ces. org. za Community Exchange Systems. International! 29. 9 met with Helsingin vaihtopiiri, >manual - but : timebank! Ø. . . Local currency? No : Timebanking! For us it was important that: Everyone’s time, work and needs are of equal value; Everyone can take part, give and receive; Everyone is needed. >local democracy > economic options. Alternative to money, Alternative Bank, Alternative means of exchange. • . . . 3. 10. 2009 Kumpulan Vaihtopiiri, 10 Kumpenni/t CES

STAP Aikajana Ø Mobilisation and participatory democracy in the exchange circle : Info evenings Membership newsletters (7) Media IS 3. 4. + HS 10. 4. 2010 Member evenings 7. 4. 2010 Kumpulassa (20 p), 23. 8. 2010 Kumpulassa >Core group 100 members 18. 3. 2010; 200 members 9. 5. 2010; 300 members 14. 8. 2010 Ø Wanted to reinforce identity as Timebank+ Helsinki wide growth: • . . 5. 5. 2010 Stadin Aikapankki, 1 tovi = 1 tunti Fleyer, www. stadinaikapankki. wordpress. com

How to start a Timebank in the CES system? • Form a core group • Do take contact, Stadin Aikapankki is glad to assist and has ready material to offer! • Register your Timebank with CES http: //www. ces. org. za/misc/joinexchange. asp • Stadin Aikapankki can provide you with own logo and flyer • Info evenings can be organised together

STAP in the Media • Vaihtopiiri pyörii , Tuuli H. , 2009, Käpyla-lehteen • IS 3. 4. 2010 Naapuriapua nettirahalla • HS 10. 4. 2010 Kumpulan vaihtopiirissä voi palvelun ostaa palvelulla • Maailman sosiaalifoorumi ja Aikapankin synty Suomen Sosiaalifoorumi 2010 -lehteen, Ruby vd. W. • Yle Uutiset 12. 06. 2010 Aikapankissa valuuttana toimii tovi

STAP in the Media • Netissa vaihdetaan myös palveluksia Yhteishyvä Digipaper 8. 10 • Aikapankissa vaihdetaan palveluita aika vastaan Roihuvuoren kylälehti 2/2010, Hanna K. • 10. 8 Yle Aikaisemmin • Aikapankki on vaihtoehto pankkitoiminalle 13. 8 Yle. X Mielipidevankki • Aikapankki ei lamakaan kaada 15. 8. 2010 Elias Krohn Kansan Uutiset

STAP in the Media • Aika vaihta pankkiin Sonja Hyppänen, Voima 7/2010 • Stadin aikapankissa palvelu vaihtuu palveluun Anneli Tuominen-Halomo, Helsingin Uutiset 16. 09. 2010 • Aikapankit rantautuvat Suomeen MTV 3 seitsemän uutiset, 16. 10. 2010.

Timebank cycle www. timebanking. org / Sanna Pellicioni

Origins of Timebanking • Edgar Cahn 60’s How to strengthen the core economy? : Family, neighbourhood, community The base of democracy, social justice, values as trust and reciprocity The 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 ØReciprocity >Respect and trust ØEquity Enlarging the definition of work ØPeople are assets ØSocial networks

Timebank achievements New Economics Foundation NEF Strengthens Core economy : Ø ability to care and share for eachother; Ø capacity for mutual and non materialistic exchanges Ø 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 1970 s 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 Ø person to person Ø person to agency Ø agency to agency

Person to Person

Agency to Agency

Coproduction via Timebanking objectives : sustainable wellbeing for all. • empowerment for people to determine own and communities needs, development, and how to realise this. • Ahead of social problems • Sustainable use of resources.

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. Ø State and local decision makers have an important role to play in the ralisation of the potential of Timebanking Ø The possibilities of Timebanking are unlimited. • Timebanking to be seen as a transformative exchange tool with values, which is one way to enable the opening up of alternative economic space, spaces of a solidarity economy, with its practices based on cooperation, equality, diversity and self determination.