Project: Brixton Pound technology audit
After having helped the Brixton Design Week team with a project, my details were passed along to the Brixton Pound when they were looking for some help.
The Brixton Pound, if you didn’t know, is a community currency started as part of Transition Town Brixton in order to investigate ways to make local towns more self-sufficient, in this case by encouraging local funds to stay local.
They provide a wealth of services, including pay-by-text as well as cash, and are soon to be offering a lottery and fund for local causes. Their technological setup is also wide-ranging and impressive, given the budgets they work with; I know this because I dove into the details of each piece and talked to their providers in order to create a report on the state of it all.
I delivered the report and talked about my recommendations; they seemed very happy!
