TL;DR - Ithaca’s new digital complementary currency has begun its second year by launching a new app, and is shifting to a coalition-based approach with community institutions and partners. You are invited to
RSVP to the call hosted by yours truly and Roel Wolfert of Qoin to learn more.
Firstly I’d like to thank you all for all the incredible support you’ve shown for Ithacash so far, and for the good work you do every day in and for the community. It has been a great honor to serve the community alongside you, getting to know you and your work where possible, and in bringing this new system to life. Thank you very much.
Many are wondering exactly
how Ithacash performed over its first year, and haven’t quite understood how we went from our initial offering of Ithacash to launching the new (groundbreaking) marketplace app:
Main St. Market. That’s totally understandable! After moving to the new platform in the early months of this year, things rapidly snowballed and now we have
a truly next-generation way to bring people together through local commerce in hand (and the app store).
But we’re not getting into details just now.
Roel Wolfert, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer of Qoin and a former Board Member at Visa International, will be joining us to talk about the SamenDoen or “Doing Together” model and its impressive performance over its first two years. Through "Doing Together" many stakeholders have created a coalition based on win-win scenarios that benefit both their bottom lines and a greater sense of purpose; SamenDoen has forged an extremely powerful model for how communities can take control over their own destinies.
It is my humble opinion that we have a profound opportunity at hand to be the very first community in America to emulate this high-powered model that has already born fruit for the courageous people who agreed to participation there in the Netherlands. I also happen to believe we don’t have much of a choice given the macro-economic climate we live in, but that’s another story. In any case, we should set the example here in the US, and strengthen Ithaca’s profile and brand as a national thought-leading community in the process.
Our proposal is simple: Join us in creating new opportunities for people to meet needs and significantly improving economic security in our region.
RSVP to the call and join us to learn how by Doing Together we can achieve much more than by going alone!
Yours truly,