A community is like an engine; it makes things happen. The Kiwah is its fuel. Kiwah is a special purpose currency, designed to enable transactions between people, groups and companies that actively want to build a society that is CO2 slim and based on an inclusive world. The unit of account is the Kilowatt-Hour.
Everybody can start a Kiwah community. Just go to Kiwah.org, download the starter’s kit, and start up. Communities can be geographical or interest based. Our Kiwah team will help you to set up your Kiwah community. Kiwah.org will develop into a global trading place and knowledge centre where everybody in the global Kiwah community shares know-how and experience.
You can also just participate in one of the communities close to you. Participation is voluntary, and everybody with an Internet connection or a mobile phone is invited to join. Joining is easy: at Kiwah.org you find a community of your interest, open an online account, and start trading.
Kiwah payments are initially done over the Internet. Local Kiwah communities can organize payments by mobile phones, card systems, voice response and cheques.
Inspiration
We learned from many and will continue doing so. To name some:
- Tradable Energy Quotas, developed by David Fleming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleming_%28writer%29) and others, which are used by citizens to buy energy. People that use more then they have, must buy from people that have an energy-excess (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradable_Energy_Quotas).
- Micro Credit, developed by Muhammad Yunus and others. In Micro Credit small loans are provided that empower people out of poverty by stimulation entrepreneurship (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_credit).
- C3 (Commercial Credit Circuit), developed by the Social Trade Organization. C3 allows economical actors to trade with network money that is convertible to cash (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrodi).
- Complementary Currencies, with thinkers like Henk van Arkel, Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietear, Thomas H. Greco and many others.
Please find more:
- The Context
- The Principles
- How to receive and spend Kiwah
- Why should I use Kiwah?
- The Kiwah Organization
- What do we need to start?
