[cc_research] Government-led CCs ?

[Jérôme Blanc]

I have in mind one example where things were not satisfactory at all :  
a place, in France, where the municipality tried to establish a SEL  
(French LETS) for excluded or poor people. People did not want to be  
part of it, because being part of a scheme for excluded reinforced the  
feeling of exclusion.

In Italy, "Banca del tiempo" were built in relation to municipalities'  
policies ; as far as I remember, they were part of those policies. How  
did they evolve when the political power changed in the municipality ?  
I have no answer, but some probably collapsed because of the lack of  
political (and financial) support.

Governmental promotion may be good if CCs themselves are not the  
direct result of political will, but the resultof the local civil  
society's will, right?

Jerome B.

Le 3 avr. 09 à 11:46, tarzan mendez a écrit :

> Yes i think that governmental promotion is great.I wonder why it  
> hasn't happened here.
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Jérôme Blanc <jerome.blanc at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr 
> > wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As far as I have understood those moves, it seems that a series of  
> south-american governments are promoting the development of CCS :  
> Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela.
> Do anyone know if there are other cases like that ? What is your  
> opinion on this subject ?
>
> My question arises because it seemed clear to me that CCs were  
> distant regarding governments (more central ones than local ones, of  
> course). Especially, I use to qualify CCs as civil society-driven  
> schemes, so that it is a bit contradictory to get society-driven  
> schemes under government promotion. Of course, the contradiction  
> depends on the way governments promote them...
> Do anyone have an opinion on that ? maybe information ?
>
> ---
> Jérôme Blanc
>


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