Introduction

From dual and multiple currency systems for supporting rural / urban - local / regional economic initiatives, to micro - small enterprise development through networks, clusters and chains to humanitarian aid distribution control systems to Micro-Financial Initiatives to carbon credit currency programs and tax-anticipation currencies we cover a broad range of services in the New Economy.

Our services also include a variety of software and platforms for currency delivery including swipe, smart and RFID cards to mobile phone and internet-based transactions to bar code and POS voucher currency systems, and programs for delivering these new technologies to consumers in new and beneficial ways.

Our Services are:

1. Pre-Implementation Assistance. This can mean feasibility studies, business plans and break-even calculations, cost-recovery methodology, and assistance with any issues prior to implementation.

2. Strategic Analysis and System Design. This involves research, workshops and simulations with clients and target groups to determine the type of system that would be most suitable (and sustainable) to implement. This is a more advanced step in our pre-implementation assistance program.

3. System Assessments and Analysis. For systems that have already started, we conduct performance assessments and provide an analysis that can help your system to improve its operations or generate increased revenue. This can also include the physical assessment of enterprise cluster, value chain and network flow operations.

4. Technical Assistance & Technology Sourcing. New technologies are emerging fast, we stay on top of these trends so the technology you choose will last as long as possible and not become outdated within a year or two. The opposite can also be beneficial: use of older technologies may be perfectly suited to the task and be much cheaper to implement than a new technology. We help you to determine which is best suited to your task.

5. Administration, Management, Policy, Legal Assistance. Reducing unnecessary overhead improves your financial bottom line. We help develop systems and structures that minimize costly expenses while improving the delivery of services to your customers. Our experience in ensuring the legal operations of network economy systems can help you get all the information you need from your legal assistance.

6. Ongoing Advisory Services. Contracting us on a long-term basis brings many value-added benefits to your operations. Our experience working with Boards of Directors can help you to deliver your vision to the market.

What is a Network Economy ?

A Network Economy is an economic and monetary system which facilitates and provides incentives to exchange goods, services and values between members of a specific group of users that understand and adhere to the goals and purposes of the network. Network economies are closed-loop economic systems with a relatively clearly-defined membership user base.

Network economies include Loyalty Point Clubs; Refillable Voucher, Credit and Debit Cards, Subway and Rail Network RFID and Smart Cards, Consumer Shopping Networks, Online Store and Auction Website members, Enterprise and Commercial Exchange Network members, Producer-Consumer Cooperative Networks, etc.

Although some network economies are old, the monetary and economic concepts underpinning network economies are modern, developing along with recent advances in computer, communications and transaction platform technologies.

What are the Benefits of Network Economies ?

Network economies can overcome the disadvantages faced by smaller enterprises when competing with those who can grow to large sizes and achieve large scales of production by creating 'optimal exchange areas' where organized vertical and horizontal markets and network currencies support healthy circulation that saves money and protects liquidity by providing a choice between which currencies to use under which circumstances.

Network economies, as with all healthy and robust economies economies operate acording to open market principles while also providing layers of protection to their members in order to secure knowledge and intellectual property innovations before they are released to the public further encouraging and supporting the risk-taking involved in R&D and collaborative product innovation.

To discuss further how we may assist you, email us at enquiries@network-economies.com.