Jeff Mowatt


Director

People-Centered Economic Development

International

http://www.p-ced.com
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Software developer investing profit in social objectives


Our work began in 1996 with a call for an alternative economic paradigm which could propagate with the opportunity provided by the dawning information age.

In 2004 we introduced this cause driven business model to the UK as a software development business. This funded our subsequent work which led in 2006 to a strategy paper for microeconomic development in Ukraine. In that paper we re-iterate the point about the web offering opportunity for social change.

"Ukraine is in urgent need of nationw...

Our work described as People-Centered Economic Development advocates for the replication of localised people-centered economics on a global basis. In 1999 this had begun in Russia by sourcing a development initiative in the city of Tomsk which would leverage a community bank and establish 10,000 micro businesses within the next 5 years.

In 2004 we introduced this to the UK with a proposal for seed funding social enterprise at the community level with a 'community interest' approach to rural bro...