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Stellar | Together We Can - A Decentralized Vision for Financial Inclusion
In this post, our contribution to Financial Inclusion Week organized by the Center For Financial Inclusion @ Accion, we’ll share SDF’s vision for achieving financial inclusion globally.We’ll do this by first outlining how we define financial inclusion, wh

Home - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Our mission is to envision a just and regenerative economy; apply the concepts locally; then share the results for broad replication. Programs Library Lectures & Publications The Decentralism File Community Land Trust Local Currencies Reinventing The Commons All Programs eNewsletters All News “Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in … Continued

CFP
Join us for the third edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 12-14th July 2026.
Global Data on Financial Inclusion | FinDev Gateway
Explore our curated list of data sources relevant for microfinance and financial inclusion.
Local-First Conf 2027
Save the date for Local-First Conf 2027 in Berlin, May 25-26. Two days of talks, workshops, and community. Join the waitlist for early bird tickets!
#SustainOSS 2018 Notes
I went to the second ever SustainOSS conference on October 25th, 2018 in London near St. Pancras International Station.
Local-First Conf 2025
Join us for the world's first local-first conference. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin, May 26-28 2025.
atproto Vienna Meetup
Third edition of the Vienna #atproto meetup is coming up and we're happy to showcase some projects from our growing community. Be there, or be square! While the agenda may slip a bit, below is our current plan. 18:00 - 18:30 -> Arrival & Socialising 18:30 - 19:00 -> Introductions & House Keeping 19:00 - 20:00 -> Presentations 20:00 - 20:30 -> Open Questions 20:30 -> End & Dinner Time

World citizens support large increases in Finance for Development
In June, Seville will host the UN Finance for Development conference. This conference offers a historical occasion to secure long overdue…

QuestU 203: What Investors Want?
Guest session for QuestU 203 class in Squamish, taught by Gal Smolar.

Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times | David Bollier
I gave the following remarks about commons governance on September 27 as part of the U!REKA Lab Lecture Series. U!REKA -- which stands for Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance -- is a consortium of eight European universities that studies urban commons. The subtitle of my talk was "Find Answers by Living the Questions."
I will be presenting in the NBER Household Finance Summer Institute session this Friday at 1pm on "Using AI in Household Finance Research: A Practical Guide." nber.org/conferences/si-2026-household…
SI 2026 Household Finance
www.nber.orgA writeup of two conferences about the fediverse this week, with @fediforum.org and the German 2MR.social conference from this week, and how they are both dealing with bridging work to both EU politics as well as atproto and the atmosphere connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edit…
FR#161 – Conference Edition
connectedplaces.onlineHey federated social app friends, if you're in beautiful Vienna next week and haven't yet signed up for the next atproto Vienna meetup, come by, say hi, share your decentralized web projects and have some snacks and drinks with our great community. We look forward to hosting you at the Metalab!
atproto Vienna Meetup
atmo.rsvpDevs in the atproto community! I will be organizing some meetups in the near future and will be reaching out Also- don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss the state and future of the ecosystem, what we’re doing with attie, or anything else. I can’t just … open my DMs but we’ll find a way