RAMICS 2019: 5th Biennial RAMICS International Congress in Japan Takayama Cultural Hall Takayama, Japan, September 11-15, 2019 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/ramics-2019-takayama/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramics2019hidatakaya |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/RAMICS2019Hida-Takayama/ |
Abstract registration deadline | April 30, 2019 |
Submission deadline | July 30, 2019 |
Only in the past few years, crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and other altcoins/ tokens have rapidly spread all over the world, expanded its scale, and increased its number. However, we have witnessed in the recent bubble burst of crypto currencies that they have become quite volatile, speculative financial instruments to the extent that they can no longer be called ‘currency’ or ‘money’ to facilitate steady transactions. On the other hand, various social or community-oriented digital coins for promoting local consumption and social investments in the same spirit of community currencies have already been implemented or are currently planned not only in Japan but also in the world.
We are currently approaching a cashless economy where electronic representations of money replace such traditional currency as coin or bank note and the transaction can be done through transfer of digital information. Sweden is close to a perfect model of cashless economy since 99% of payments are conducted without cash.In East Asia, Korea and China are well known as highly cashless economies, where electronic payment systems and digital coins are widely accepted.
Do digital technologies such as blockchain, mining, proof of work and QR code settlement that are used in digital/crypto currencies open up a wide range of non-fiat, private decentralized money systemsand create new possibilities for community/complementary currencies? Do they change the basic concepts of geographical 'community' or 'local' to more 'community of interest' or 'abstractly local' in value space? Or do they have any positive/ negative effects on natural, ecological and cultural environments surrounding us?
It would be necessary to ask these questions when seeking a better way for integrating/ hybridizing good genes of both crypto currencies and community currencies. We would like to invite a wide range of academicians, researchers and practitioners to join us and give answers to the questions affirmatively or negatively.
More generally, proposals on any topics covered by the scope of RAMICS will be positively considered, that is, on diverse monetary and social exchange systems, such as schemes that contribute to economic diversity, social cohesion, democratic participation and environmental sustainability, like complementary and community currencies.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Scientific article
- A scientific article is a theoretical, empirical or experimental study of community and complementary currency systems and digital currency systems.
- Abstracts and then full papers must be submitted. Abstracts and full papers should be prepared in English or Japanese, using the template supplied in docx format. The abstract should be no longer than 500 words in English or 1,500 characters in Japanese. The full paper length is within 4,000-8,000 words in English or 12,000-24,000 characters in Japanese.
- The Scientific Committee is in charge of reviewing all submitted abstracts.
- Scientific articles written in English become the candidates to be selected for special issues of International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) and Evolutionary and Institutional Economic Review (EIER) scheduled to be published after the Congress.
- Experience report
- The focus of experience reports is not theoretical but rather contextual (social, cultural, economic, environmental, political, etc). Reports can focus on procedures, field methodology, results, impacts, challenges, difficulties or others practical aspects.
- Abstracts and then full papers must be submitted. Abstracts and full papers should be prepared in English or Japanese, using the template supplied in docx format. The abstract should be no longer than 500 words in English or 1,500 characters in Japanese. The full paper length is within 4,000-8,000 words in English or 12,000-24,000 characters in Japanese.
- The Scientific Committee is in charge of reviewing all submitted abstracts
- Poster
- The purpose of a poster is to report the latest research on community and complementary currency systems and digital currency systems and to introduce the latest examples of them.
- Abstracts must be submitted,prepared in English or Japanese, using the template supplied in docx format. The abstract should be no longer than 500 words in English or 1,500 characters in Japanese.
- The Scientific Committee is in charge of reviewing all submitted abstracts.
List of Topics (but not limited to)
- Impact and results of community and complementary currencies
- Historical or regional context of community and complementary currencies
- Possibilities of digital currency
- Innovation of payment and settlement means
Committees
Scientific Committee
- Aruka, Yuji (Chuo University, Japan)
- Blanc, Jerome (Sciences Po Lyon, France)
- Corrons, August (Open University of Catalunya, Spain)
- Gomez, Georgina (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- Hashimoto, Takashi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Kobayashi, Shigeto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Kurita, Ken-ichi (Kokusai Junior College, Japan)
- Mikami, Masahiro (Meiji University, Japan)
- Miyazaki, Yoshihisa (National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan)
- Nishibe, Makoto (Senshu University, Japan)
- Orzi, Ricardo (National University of Luján, Argentine)
- Rigo, AriádneScalfoni (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
- Schroeder, Rolf (Bibliography of Community Currency Research, Germany)
- Yoshida, Masayuki (SC Chair) (Joetsu University of Education, Japan)
Organizing committee
- Nishibe, Makoto (Senshu University, Japan)
- Yoshida, Masayuki (Joetsu University of Education, Japan)
- Yamazaki, Masahiro (Energy Profit [Produce] Organization)
- Kobayashi, Shigeto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Yamakoshi, Kazushige
- Kurita, Ken-ichi (Kokusai Junior College, Japan)
- Ikeda, Masaaki
- Miyazaki, Yoshihisa (National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan)
- Fujiwara, Ikuma (Energy Profit [Produce] Organization)
- Yoshida, Masaaki (Senshu University, Japan)
- Hashimoto, Takashi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Sawa, Hidetoshi (Energy Profit [Produce] Organization)
- Mikami, Masahiro (Meiji University, Japan)
Venue
The conference will be held at the Takayama Cultural Hall in Takayama, Japan.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ramics2019takayama@googlegroups.com