leaving MONEY, CREDIT AND DEBT OUTSIDE OF THE EQUATION. Establish networks of trust at both local and cross-border environments.
How to use BIOECON
Create your profile.
Publish your first offerings.
Express your needs. This will give others ideas of what to offer.
Respond to messages and requests in timely manner.
When you gain experience, invite your friends to Bioecon
You will need to get an invitation link by email from an active user in Bioecon.
Bioecon is about people helping people and building up community in a decentralized and voluntary manner.
If you know somebody who is already using Bioecon, you can request this person to send you the invitation from his/her account.
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Create a variety of offerings. In addition to your own production and services you can lend, share and help others in all kinds of ways.
Explore your potential and meet and relate with others through your offerings.
Expand regularly the diversity of your offerings. This will allow for a greater opportunity to connect and exchange with others.
Pay attention to other people´s needs. Search for needs in your locality and areas of interest. This will give you ideas to publish meaningful offerings.
Find an offering of your interest and contact the provider or start the agreement.
Introduce the number of units or instances you want. The points requested for this offering will be put on hold in your account.
Get in touch with the provider to arrange the delivery.
Once the offering is delivered, declare the action. The points on hold in your account will be transferred to the provider.
Leave your feedback.
When you register at Bioecon you will receive your first points to get started.
Then, as a result of your exchanges, you will get more points.
Your points are a record of your activity in Bioecon and a means for conducting agreements with others.
Every 5 points involved in an agreement, 1 new point is created in both users accounts (provider and consumer).
Points generated and put into circulation are considered in your “Activity Level Thermometer” which measures your level of experience in carrying out agreements.
Points are created into the system by users registration and activity.
As users engage in more activity they create more points.
To balance this point creation, points oxidize when they are not being used. Oxidation has to do with the impermanent nature of everything that is alive and it helps keeping this economy healthy.
Oxidation does not affect the activity level users have achieved nor their capacity to carry out agreements as new points get created when old unused points oxidize.
Bioecon is a peer-to-peer, growth sensitive, self regulated economic agreement in which the means of exchange is produced by participants as a result of our activity.
Points are not the price for an offering. They are just a record of users activities in the community
Once you join Bioecon you will find some references to assign reasonable points
The point system is aimed to train us in empathy and awareness of our interdependencies, so that we make our choices and decisions after considering the consequences for others.
The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our agreements interwoven in a complex network of relationships.
Take care of yourself.
Take care of each other.
Take care of the place.
Cross boundaries and explore the tension between the instinct for security, belonguing and closeness and the need for freedom, wonder and adventure in human relationships.
Honor the paradox of freedom and community.
A moneyless economy to transform social relations and bring people together.
A BACK-UP SYSTEM
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ALTERNATIVE WAYS
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A PARTICIPATORY MEANS OF EXCHANGE
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A MEANS, NOT AN END
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HOW TO START
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NEW MODULE FOR ONLINE PROJECTS
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RETHINK EDUCATION
"We live in a world bewitched by the rhetoric of money. What is being done in education passes as very normal, ...
A SHIFT THROUGH INTERNET
Bioecon is not a particular community working on a non-monetary basis but an internet tool to explore through the powers of communication technologies how different communities can find ways of creating a version that escalates. If you are a ...
SPECIFIC TOOLS TO TRANSFORM SOCIAL RELATIONS
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REASONS FOR BIOECON
Bioecon can be thought of as a laboratory to actively experience what kinds of social relations we seek, what relations to nature and style of life we desire, what values we hold, for a fundamental change in the way we mediate our exchanges and ...
EXCHANGES THAT CONNECT US
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY: “I came across Bioecon at a seminar on Health and Poverty at the NYU School of Medicine. We were shown the instructor's account, and it seemed like a great way to exchange goods and services in a way the builds ...
THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL
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WHO WE ARE
Bioecon is a local/global descentralized community. The collaborative nature of our work means we are all who ...
ACCESS TO CONTENTS
FAQ: Why I cannot acces the offerings if I don´t log in or register? Participants right to privacy is a matter of the highest importance. The visibility settings of participants profiles and offerings must be honoured and it is within the ...
BIOECON MOBILE
Find offerings in your area that match your needs and barter requirements Get directions from where you are Start and declare ...