hOurworld News

We believe in Open Innovation! We implement the best ideas of our members and coordinators. This broad based co-production model of networking and development affords us all the best tools for sustaining our local communities!


We believe in removing ALL the barriers to time banking that we can. Access to the hOurworld platform is FREE. It is easy for new members to join and learn, and easy for coordinators to manage and report on their members and activity.

We believe in supporting local diversity while maintaining a central cooperative organization to provide accessible support, training, and communications.

We believe that every member have control over their own privacy and content. We operate on private secure servers and HIPAA compliant data centers where all information is encrypted before going out on the internet.

We believe that time banking is one spoke in the wheel o fthe Solidarity Economy. We foster Movements Moving Together. The opportunities are endless!

All the Best,
from hOurworld

Local Exchange News

What's in the pipeline?

A few of you have requested a report that would let you identify, phone, email (individually or a whole group at once) members with Suspeneded Offers, or Suspended Requests. From [Home] click [Reporting] and scoll to the bottom of the list and select {Members With Suspended Services} From the report, select Suspended Offers or Suspended Requests (defaults to the former). You may email the report to yourself or any other address as well.

We've coded a migration engine for TBO's Community Weaver 4 (CW-4) ala MadeOpen. We can now load your member data, ads and transaction history directly into Time and Talents using the json data dumps that Timebanks.org will provide you! We have successfully migrated a dozen timebanks and all is well. BE AWARE: MadeOpen has ONLY PROVIDED the data that was provided to them at the time the migration to CW-4 first occured. Thirty timebanks have since moved to hOurworld. ANY NEW content on the new platform will need to be manually copied and re-input into hOurworld.

Time and Talents v2.0 (TNTv2) is in use! 
We'll be building out more of the administrative area over the next several months and adding Inter-Trade and a Federated Model where collections of timebanks may assiociate as an alternative. Timebanks with moderate administrative needs may evaluate or migrate NOW!

New TimeBanks