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SWITZERLAND: Filmmaker and Village Collaborate to Plan “Basic Income” Trial
Director Rebecca Panian and a team of research scientists are conferring with the town of Rheinau to launch a one-year program to resemble a community-wide basic income.
Stockton Economic Empowerment Project in the News
The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) has been the subject of a consideration amount of attention from American and international media lately, with news outlets such as Reuters, the Washington Post and the New York Times publishing articles on the...
The Horizon NGO launches the United Basic Income Platform
Horizon Factory is a "platform through which organizations can set up an independent basic income project, supporting their own community while contributing to Horizon's global basic income service". Aiming high at a world-wide basic income, naming this as the United...
The Future of Abundance: Self-Owning Machines Can Generate a Basic Income
Picture: Deep Dog at the Beach by Botgirl Questi, 2014, CC-BY-NC 2.0 On June 6th 2018, Trent McConaghy, founder of Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB states in his article “Nature 2.0, The Cradle of Civilization Gets an Upgrade”, that a combination of Artificial...
Italy: There is no basic income being proposed in Italy
Since the new government led by Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) and Lega (the Italian extreme right-wing party) was formed, the proposal of a so-called “citizen income” in Italy has had much echo. First proposals go back to 2013, having been reported at the time. This...
Possible New Minimum Income Experiement in Manitoba
Manitoba, the Canadian province which was the location of one of the most well-known basic income experiments of the last century, may be re-examining the possibility of instituting a basic income guarantee (BIG) following a recommendation from the Winnipeg Chamber of...
International: Study to evaluate impact of cash transfers in Liberia
The Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) group, based in New York, is preparing a large-scale cash transfer study in Liberia, particularly focusing on rural farming households. Cash transfers will be delivered by GiveDirectly, and also coordinated with USAID, to be...
UK: Call for Papers announced for Cambridge conference on intellectual history of basic income
A team of three University of Cambridge scholars have released a CFP for a conference on the history of the idea of basic income, to be held on January 14, 2019.
SPAIN: Documentary about Basic Income opens in Madrid
A new documentary about Basic Income, RBUI, nuestro derecho a vivir, in english UBI, our right to live, had its debut in Madrid, on May 12th in the Auditorium of the Cultural Center “Pozo del Tío Raimundo” during the Foro Humanista Europeo 2018. The documentary was...
CANADA: NABIG Congress 2018 in Hamilton, Ontario
The 2018 NABIG (North American Basic Income Guarantee) Congress happened in Hamilton, Ontario, from May 24th to May 27th at McMaster University. There were around 120 people presenting and attendance between 270-280 people. The conference was notably diverse, with...
