Teodoro Criscione, a 2nd year PhD candidate at the Department of Network and Data Science, presented his ongoing research on the network of the Community Currency System (CCS) in Kenya, the so called Sarafu Network. The emergence of CSS is driven by the need for an alternative credit system outside the official monetary system in a small and close-knit environment. In order to increase the well-being of a community, this aforementioned scheme focuses on financing community projects.
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