<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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. <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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? </div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Jerome B. </div><div><br><div><div>Le 3 avr. 09 à 11:46, tarzan mendez a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Yes i think that governmental promotion is great.I wonder why it hasn't happened here.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Jérôme Blanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerome.blanc@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr">jerome.blanc@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear all,<br> <br> 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.<br> Do anyone know if there are other cases like that ? What is your opinion on this subject ?<br> <br> 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...<br> Do anyone have an opinion on that ? maybe information ?<br> <br> ---<br> Jérôme Blanc<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>