Welcome to the fifth CEA Presents Taking Back Our Economy podcast series hosted by Christine Gray. Today, our fellow founders of the Community Exchange Alliance: Anitha Beberg, Edgar Cahn, Tim Jenkin and Martin Simon are joined by a special guest, Gabriele Donati,  Founder of TimeRepublik. Gabriele started his timebanking software company with his high school friend Karim Varini in 2012. Our topic today is "People First. Software Second. The Need for Community and Relationships." 

The aim of the Alliance is to form a learning community where people come to share their experience, information, and how-to advice about exchange systems such as sharing, swapping, gifting, bartering and local community currencies and also about networks of exchange systems. The Alliance was formed by Anitha Beberg, Edgar Cahn, Christine Gray, Tim Jenkin and Martin Simon, a group of individuals who have dedicated, between them, over one hundred person-years to helping grow different types of local means of exchange that can help to build strong, resilient communities where people feel valued for their contributions and are supported in their needs. We believe that bringing leaders and members of exchange systems together to share what they have done, what they have learned, the tools that they have developed and how it has changed their community, will bring insights to those with long experience in exchange systems, as well as, helpful information for newcomers to this growing movement.  If this podcast inspires you to learn more check out our website at http://www.communityexchangealliance.org​ or follow us on twitter @comm_exchange. You can subscribe to this channel for upcoming sharing sessions. Thank you for listening.