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TY - JOUR
T1 - BARTER
T2 - a technological strategy for local wealth generation
AU - Knowles, Brandin
AU - Lochrie, Mark
AU - Coulton, Paul
AU - Whittle, Jon
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Encouraging people to spend locally is a popular strategy for reviving languishing economies. Traditional approaches involve the circulation of alternative local currencies, which often fail for reasons external to the notion of local fiscalism itself. Mobile social networking may provide one mechanism for circumventing these problems by augmenting existing currencies with information relating to their flow within the local economy.
AB - Encouraging people to spend locally is a popular strategy for reviving languishing economies. Traditional approaches involve the circulation of alternative local currencies, which often fail for reasons external to the notion of local fiscalism itself. Mobile social networking may provide one mechanism for circumventing these problems by augmenting existing currencies with information relating to their flow within the local economy.
KW - local economy
KW - Sustainability, Design
KW - NFC
KW - mobile
KW - local currencies
KW - persuasive technology
U2 - 10.1109/MITP.2014.27
DO - 10.1109/MITP.2014.27
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 28
EP - 34
JO - IT Professional
JF - IT Professional
SN - 1520-9202
IS - 3
ER -