NEW: A short visualized instruction "HOW to WORK on SPIRAL" (the english and russian versions) is now available!

Time banking is a p2p currency system where individual members exchange services on a voluntary basis with one another. Time banking values everyone’s time as equal. For every hour spent helping someone in your community, the contributor is entitled to an hour of help in return. The currency units are not money but hours of time spent by people on any type of labour (called a time dollar in the USA or a time credit in the UK).

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Inovação: a ACD, para uma gestão participativa e cuidadosa do micro projeto de suinicultura, financiado pelo PLPR, cujas beneficiárias são mulheres pobres chefes de família: - Criou comissão de compras formada pelo tesoureiro mais duas pessoas.

The working session in the Concil of Europe to prepare the methodology that will be used in the work with the 30 cities, as well as the supporting website respondingtogether.wikispiral.org

The Second International Meeting of the Territories of Co-responsibility took place in Mulhouse on 22nd and 23rd of November. It was a great success with the participation of more than 300 persons from 19 countries and in-depth debates on the different aspects of the co-responsibility approach, its application in different context and networking questions.

No question SPIRAL is idealistic... and in reality there may well be occurrences of malpractice. Not in the sense of technicalities - e.g. missing out stage 2.3, doing something for x minutes longer than instructed, including too large a number of participants in one group. The methodology is merely a step-by-step guide to follow if you are not sure how to proceed. What is essential to SPIRAL however is a series of fundamental principles which if disregarded would make the process non-SPIRAL.

Malcolm's slideshow to present SPIRAL.

SPIRAL and Edgeryders "Responding together – citizens’ engagement against exclusion" project first meeting in Cluj. This meeting tries to set up a methodology to unleash creativity and to increase the coordination group.