The Zlto Exchange system: Promoting social development through a community currency implemented on smartphones

Jörn Christiansson

doi:10.1145/3605655.3605667

The Zlto Exchange system: Promoting social development through a community currency implemented on smartphones

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The article presents a study of a youth café initiative for skills training in South Africa where a reward system, the Zlto Exchange (ZE) system with a community currency, Zlto, was implemented on smart phones, to promote personal development and prepare socially challenged youth for the job market. The ZE system enables youth to earn Zlto in exchange for taking part in skills training or doing community work, that can be spent on services and consumables in the local community. This study assesses the qualitative performance of the ZE system and youth café operation, through an inductive qualitative analysis of interviews with café visitors and staff. Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a lens, the analysis focuses on how the youth café operation supports motivation for personal development. Results indicate that the youth cafés provide a potentially fruitful platform for promoting personal development in youths, based on how the ZE system is embedded in the supportive environment of the youth cafés, and how the youth café operation is integrated in the local communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECCE '23: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	21 Sept 2023
Pages	1-4
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-4007-0875-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3605655.3605667
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2023
Event	ECCE '23 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2023, Swansea, UK: Responsible Technology: Community, Culture, and Sustainability - Swansea, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Sept 2023 → 22 Sept 2023 https://digitaleconomy.wales/ecce2023/

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Conference	ECCE '23 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2023, Swansea, UK
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Swansea
Period	19/09/2023 → 22/09/2023
Internet address	https://digitaleconomy.wales/ecce2023/

Keywords

Youth Café
Skills Training
Community Currency
Zlto Exchange System
Self-Determination Theory (SDT)

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Christiansson, J 2023, The Zlto Exchange system: Promoting social development through a community currency implemented on smartphones. in ECCE '23: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics . Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-4, ECCE '23 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2023, Swansea, UK, Swansea, United Kingdom, 19/09/2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3605655.3605667

The Zlto Exchange system: Promoting social development through a community currency implemented on smartphones. / Christiansson, Jörn.
ECCE '23: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics . Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 1-4.

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