Welcome to the Community Exchange System

What is the CES?

Who are we?

How does the CES work?

Two games of football

An example of a trade

Why we need a new money

The advantages of the CES

The problem with conventional money

Questions and Answers

Other articles

Alternative money system links

Public Domain 'Money'

The CES is a public domain exchange system, meaning that it is run by those who use it and not by any entity with interests separate from the communities in which it operates.

By recapturing the powerful mechanisms of exchange a community can ensure that its productive activities are used for the public good and in ways that are not harmful to the environment.

Start a new CES exchange in your area and let the community decide how its efforts will be deployed.

Join the Community Exchange System and start getting off the 'money grid'

A World Free of Money

There are many ways of exchanging what we have and can do for the things we need. Money is just one of them. The internet revolution has brought us new ways without the unnecessary step of acquiring money first.

Here we exchange and share what we have to offer for what others provide using a variety of exchange mechanisms: record keeping, time exchange, direct exchange, barter, swapping, gifting and sharing.

Simply by keeping track of who receives what from whom we can dispense with the ancient idea of exchange media and the apparatus required to manage them. This helps us focus on providing and requesting what is really needed instead of chasing after money. It creates an environment of openness and transparency; it promotes equality, fairness and balance; it builds community and helps us respect our environment and appreciate the limits of our finite world.

So long as you can offer something of value, you can receive from the community goods and services of like value. So join the growing global community who have discovered a new, healthy way of exchanging, one that will help us create a healthy, sustainable world.

Globe Press Release

World's Largest Free Community Resource Management Software to be Upgraded

Community Exchange System (CES), a free software service that helps communities manage and exchange resources, is to be migrated to Drupal in 2015. The network currently consists of 750 more or less active communities in 70 countries and the software has so far been translated into 22 languages. Most of the software will be published open source, as a Drupal 8 distribution called Eserai, and several customised deployments are already planned.

In the medium term, more resources will be sought to bring together these deployments into one decentralised network, and to build a free, open source phone application suitable for recording and mobilising community activities.

Communities wanting to be part of a global, decentralised exchange network can create accounts on this website. Drupal engineers wishing to support this long-term effort should contact matslats.net.

3 December 2013

Globe Community Exchange Network Statistics

The Community Exchange Network is the first and only global network of communities using alternative exchange systems.

There are currently 47580 active user accounts on this server.

Currently there are three CES servers hosting the different communities. This one is the 'global' server and there are two in Australia hosting the Australian communities and Timebanking Australia.

World map of CES exchange groups

The breakdown by country of active communities hosted on this server is as follows:

#	Country	Count	%
1	Argentina	8	1.07
2	Australia [More]	31	4.16
3	Austria	1	0.13
4	Belgium	3	0.4
5	Bolivia	1	0.13
6	Botswana	1	0.13
7	Brazil	13	1.74
8	Bulgaria	1	0.13
9	Cameroon	1	0.13
10	Canada	24	3.22
11	Chile	5	0.67
12	China	1	0.13
13	Colombia	8	1.07
14	Costa Rica	1	0.13
15	Croatia	1	0.13
16	Cyprus	1	0.13
17	Czech Republic	3	0.4
18	Denmark	2	0.27
19	Dominican Republic	2	0.27
20	Ecuador	1	0.13
21	Estonia	1	0.13
22	Ethiopia	1	0.13
23	Fiji	1	0.13
24	Finland	45	6.03
25	France	13	1.74
26	Germany	3	0.4
27	Gibraltar	1	0.13
28	Greece	14	1.88
29	Hong Kong	1	0.13
30	Hungary	1	0.13
31	India	9	1.21
32	International	4	0.54
33	Ireland	7	0.94
34	Israel	1	0.13
35	Italy	7	0.94
36	Jordan	1	0.13
37	Kenya	1	0.13
38	Latvia	1	0.13
39	Liberia	1	0.13
40	Lithuania	1	0.13
41	Madagascar	1	0.13
42	Malaysia	1	0.13
43	Mauritius	1	0.13
44	Mexico	9	1.21
45	Moldova	1	0.13
46	Namibia	2	0.27
47	Netherlands	3	0.4
48	Netherlands Antilles	2	0.27
49	New Zealand	34	4.56
50	Norway	2	0.27
51	Pakistan	1	0.13
52	Peru	3	0.4
53	Philippines	1	0.13
54	Poland	5	0.67
55	Portugal	9	1.21
56	Romania	6	0.8
57	Russia	3	0.4
58	Saudi Arabia	1	0.13
59	Serbia	1	0.13
60	Slovenia	2	0.27
61	South Africa	51	6.84
62	Spain	215	28.82
63	Sweden	9	1.21
64	Thailand	1	0.13
65	Turkey	1	0.13
66	Ukraine	2	0.27
67	United Kingdom	18	2.41
68	United States	122	16.35
69	Uruguay	1	0.13
70	US Virgin Islands	1	0.13
71	Vanuatu	6	0.8
72	Zambia	1	0.13
73	Zimbabwe	2	0.27
74	All	746	100.00

Join Now!

Join the Community Exchange System

Only your commitment is required!

• Join an existing Community Exchange or Time Bank. Select your country below to find an exchange near you:

...or if there is no exchange in your area...

• Create a new Community Exchange or Time Bank

• Register your existing complementary currency exchange (e.g. LETS group or time bank) and become part of the global Community Exchange Network

See how the site works
	View the Demonstration Site. This is the real thing but with fictitious users. The only features missing here are those relating to inter-exchange trading

Community Exchange News
Read the Newsletters of different CES exchanges around the world

Social Networking