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Profile: Giles Andrews, CFO of ZOPA - Accountancy Age

robdyke — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:59:00 -0500

With public perception of high street banks at an all time low, Giles Andrews, CFO of ZOPA, tells our reporter about his company's revolutionary approach that's fit for the iPod generation Tagged by robdyke under social lending, banking, companies and markets, zopa, social economics,

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING > BRIEF

robdyke — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:47:00 -0500

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a mechanism of local government, which brings local communities closer to the decision-making process around the public budget. It is a flexible process, which has been implemented in varying forms across cities of all sizes, within Brazil and beyond. It works to enhance participation in local democracy whilst improving community cohesion and ensuring the delivery of cost-effective local services. Tagged by robdyke under budgeting, Participatoryeconomics, social economics, local government, residents associations,

Shirky: Bio

robdyke — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:11:00 -0400

Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC. Tagged by robdyke under person, peer to peer, network society, social economics,

The Wealth of Networks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

robdyke — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:55:00 -0400

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by law professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale University Press on April 3, 2006. A complete PDF of the book is freely downloadable on the wiki of the book and is available under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license.[1] Benkley has said that his editable online book is "an experiment of how books might be in the future," demonstrating how authors and readers might connect instantly or even collaborate.[2] Tagged by robdyke under network society, social economics, book, wikipedia, peer to peer,

OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Social lending takes next step in the UK

robdyke — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:39:00 -0400

The UK-based peer to peer finance service Zopa (see here for a previous report) had already been “cutting out the middleman” between lender and borrowers for some time by letting lenders specify what rate they want to lend at and matching them to identity and credit-checked, risk-assessed borrowers willing to pay that rate. Tagged by robdyke under social economics, lending, blog, peer to peer,

Social Lending: the big idea

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:49:00 -0400

Social Lending is a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money. It's like borrowing and lending with your friends and family - except there are thousands of people you can lend and borrow with. Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, social economics, banking, service provider,

JAK Medlemsbank

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:48:00 -0400

THE INTEREST-FREE SAVINGS AND LOAN SYSTEM JAK has been operating an interest-free savings and loan system since 1970. A bank license was obtained in 1997. Formally JAK is a co-operative bank. We have 33,000 members and our growth is 7 percent per year. Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, social economics, banking, sweeden,

The Bankwatch

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:47:00 -0400

Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, blog, social economics,

Peer-to-peer lending | Crunchless credit | Economist.com

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:47:00 -0400

IF THE banks won't lend you money, might a stranger? Probably not, to judge by recent data from Prosper, an American peer-to-peer lending marketplace (a place where people can lend their own money to other people). Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, social economics, peer to peer, article,

isb | Institute for Social Banking | Training and Research | Home

robdyke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:46:00 -0400

The Institute for Social Banking develops different, individually coordinated university courses in the field of ethical-ecological, socially motivated finance and banking. Tagged by robdyke under economics 2.0, wikinomics, social economics,

Homesteading the Noosphere by Eric S. Raymond

robdyke — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:29:00 -0500

Tagged by robdyke under open source, property theory, Locke, social economics,