WE DON'T HAVE A POVERTY CRISIS. WE HAVE A WEALTH PROBLEM.
It’s time to overhaul our wealth building systems and create true representation in our communities. Enabling institutions and individuals to share in wealth generated by a system that supports its members and communities in South London.
£2.5 Billion in contracts are available from only 16 institutions in London. Imagine the amount of untapped potential across the whole of the country.
We are connecting the five pillars of community wealth building into a representative system where individuals can participate, sell their products or services, have influence over decision making and unlock pathways of opportunity, whilst at the same time generating wealth that feeds back into the community, rewarding its participants and enriching their environment.
The Friday evening will consist of introductions and registrations. Mapping system mechanics and raising awareness of the beacons of successful system change worldwide.
The Saturday, all day, will be dedicated to designing the new system for our community including: Citizen Representation and Participatory Decision Making, Citizen Wealth Creation - Inclusive markets and rewards, alternative currencies and decentralised Web 3.0 (blockchain) marketplaces for things like health data, art and design, fashion, knowledge and research, property, etc. and how might we create a Trust to collect, share and reward the Data that we need to evidence our participation, our wealth and our success.
The Sunday will be the challange of technically modelling the new system using the latest web and blockchain technology.
Building a community project with a difference.
Anna is an experienced facilitator having run many hackathons and start-up weekends for eight years with global accelerator, TechStars. Anna is a strategy and business operations professional with experience of scaling ideas and systems. She has held several senior roles in the tech and coworking ecosystems.
Valerio is a Senior Lecturer in London South Bank University’s Business School. He joined LSBU in 2020 having worked at Deloitte as pricing specialist. Valerio applied his skills in data analysis as lead researcher on behalf of the beneficiary, Crystalisr, in the recent BIG Innovation Voucher research on community wealth building.
David is one of the co-founders of Crystalisr co-operative, an organisation promoting community wealth building in South London. Working with London South Bank University Crystalisr benefited from Innovation Voucher research which proved the business case for holistic approach, putting citizens at the centre.
Tilly is co-founder and head of business development at AKOU, the social impact measurement company. AKOU works across the UK collaborating with clients and communities and helping them to understand and calculate social capital.
Dr Sonia Bussu is senior lecturer in Politics and Public Administration at Manchester Metropolitan University; after her PhD in local governance, she worked in the third sector on designing and evaluating public engagement initiatives. Her main research interests are participatory governance, co-production, and participatory research. Sonia is co-convenor of the UK Political Studies Association’s Participatory and Deliberative Democracy specialist group.
Phil is a programmer, writer, and problem solver, skilled in bringing digital products to life and with a talent for capturing and communicating concepts and ideas simply and accessibly. As a developer Phil is currently working at the transition between Web2 and Web3.
If you would like to find out more you can visit the links below or send us an email.
Crystalisr Co-operative society
CLES national organisation for local economies
