Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case

There are plenty of organizations from private, public and nonprofit areas dealing with the current world development crisis. Some studies have shown alternative systems of use of social and complementary currencies. This paper aims to analyze the social currency used by one development bank to impr...

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Autores principales:	Ariadne Scalfoni Rigo, Andréa Cardoso Ventura
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Publicado:	Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul 2019
Materias:	social currency social tecnology palmas brazilian community bank Economic growth, development, planning HD72-88
Acceso en línea:	https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2019.47.136-155 https://doaj.org/article/bd4851163c84496baca211e67a0829d5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bd4851163c84496baca211e67a0829d52021-11-11T15:16:09ZSocial Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case1678-48552237-6453https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2019.47.136-155https://doaj.org/article/bd4851163c84496baca211e67a0829d52019-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=75259282011https://doaj.org/toc/1678-4855https://doaj.org/toc/2237-6453There are plenty of organizations from private, public and nonprofit areas dealing with the current world development crisis. Some studies have shown alternative systems of use of social and complementary currencies. This paper aims to analyze the social currency used by one development bank to improve local economy in a poor community in Brazil, using a specific social technology (ST). We applied an ethnographic approach to the oldest and biggest Brazilian Community Bank (Banco Palmas) and highlight the Palmas social currency creation process and use. This research has allowed the identification of patterns that make possible the ST dissemination to other nonprofit organizations. The results have demonstrated that community banks and their social currencies can play a pervasive role regarding local development, as an effective economic solution technology to reach other disfavored groups. We argue that the reapplication process close social currency use to ST concept.Ariadne Scalfoni RigoAndréa Cardoso VenturaUniversidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sularticlesocial currencysocial tecnologypalmasbrazilian community bankEconomic growth, development, planningHD72-88PTDesenvolvimento em Questão, Vol 17, Iss 47, Pp 136-155 (2019)
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description	There are plenty of organizations from private, public and nonprofit areas dealing with the current world development crisis. Some studies have shown alternative systems of use of social and complementary currencies. This paper aims to analyze the social currency used by one development bank to improve local economy in a poor community in Brazil, using a specific social technology (ST). We applied an ethnographic approach to the oldest and biggest Brazilian Community Bank (Banco Palmas) and highlight the Palmas social currency creation process and use. This research has allowed the identification of patterns that make possible the ST dissemination to other nonprofit organizations. The results have demonstrated that community banks and their social currencies can play a pervasive role regarding local development, as an effective economic solution technology to reach other disfavored groups. We argue that the reapplication process close social currency use to ST concept.
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title	Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case
title_short	Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case
title_full	Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case
title_fullStr	Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case
title_full_unstemmed	Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case
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publisher	Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul
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Social Currency and Technology: An Analysis of Brazilian Social Currencies and the Palmas Case

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