The Basic Income Korean Network (BIKN) held a two-day, international conference on “Local Politics and Basic Income” at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, June 19-20, 2015. Topics ad the conference included activism for basic incoe, local and international movements for Basic Income around the world, the political feasibility of Basic Income, and youth and Basic Income. Participants included Hyosang Ahn of BIKN, Karl Widerquist of SFS-Q of Georgetown University, Zhiyuan Cui of Tsinghua University, Nowan Kwak of the University of Seoul, Enno Schmidt of the Swiss campaign for Basic Income, Sarath Davala of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India, Anja Askeland of the Basic Income Earth Network, Ju-on Kim of the Basic Youth Network, and several others.
BIEN Congresses
Basic Income, Solidarity Economy and Social Protection
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
Maricá provides unconditional transfers to almost half of its population. 7 other cities in the state of Rio de Janeiro have already created their own local currencies inspired by Maricá’s Citizens Basic Income. Our other host city, Niterói provides transfers benefiting more than 100,000 individuals.
Pre-congress events: Latin America Day: 25 Aug. & Early Career Day: 26 Aug.
Call for Papers Announcement: Nov. 2024
Linkedin & Instagram – biencongress25 (at) gmail [dot] com
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)
Basic Income
A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement. Read more
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Please take a look at this text survey:
What will I do tommorrow, when every individual begins receiving a basic income of $300.00/week?
1. Continue as I am doing until I take care of my debt situation and I am able to make a change, and then (describe the change)
2 quit my job tommorrow, and try to find some kind of more meaningful “work”.
3 start a business myself
4 each day, wake up, and take care of
people who need help
It could be used to collect data and endorsement.
I have created a contact in my phone called “my self” and I send thoughts to this contact about basic income and related ideas of waking up. What if everyone did this and my self became known as a support contact in the cloud that could help us inform the “system”