LABSS is proud to sponsor the first workshop on Social Complexity of Informal Value Exchange

SCIVE 2010 – http://cfpm.org/scive/

Exploring the social aspects of informal value transfer at the European Complex Systems Society Conference, Lisbon, September 15th or 16th, 2010

The Topic
This workshop aims to promote inquiry into social phenomena that involve value-exchange, and in particular on networks for credit and value transfer, under the effect of recent technological and societal change. In particular an individual-based simulation approach to take into account their social complexity.

Informal value transfer and credit networks involve people or institutions providing credit or value transfer services based on social trust rather than laws and contracts. Such networks constitute a complex system that have been relatively unstudied yet have a significant impact on people’s lives. ICT advances – for example the reduction of social distance and the advent of economically-feasible micro transactions – allow for significant improvements in reach and quality of these networks and might allow the release of presently untapped social resources.

>> Read more at the workshop website