Editing Local exchange trading system (section)

== Examples ==
Local exchange trading systems now exist in many countries. Currency exchange between countries is done automatically through the CES or a similar network.

=== Africa ===
In 2003, the original CES was founded as internet-based LETS in [[Cape Town]], South Africa. By 2011 it had grown into a global network spanning 99 countries.<ref name=CESwho>{{cite web|url=https://www.community-exchange.org/home/who-are-we/|website=Community Exchange System|title=Who are we?|access-date=29 March 2019}}</ref>

{{as of|March 2019}} the following African countries had active communities linked in to the CES network: [[Botswana]] 2; [[Cameroon]] 1; [[Ethiopia]] 1; [[Kenya]] 2; [[Lesotho]] 2; [[Liberia]] 1; [[Madagascar]] 1; [[Namibia]] 2; [[Nigeria]] 2; [[South Africa]] 62; [[Swaziland]] 1; [[Uganda]] 1; [[Zambia]] 2; [[Zimbabwe]] 2.<ref name=CESstats/>

=== Asia ===
In [[Japan]], the ''[[Fureai kippu]]'' (in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] ふれあい切符: Caring Relationship Tickets) is a Japanese [[sectoral currency]] created in 1995 by the [[Sawayaka Welfare Foundation]] so that people could earn credits helping [[old age|seniors]] in their [[community]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publishing.yudu.com/Library/Axgmj/Communitycurrencygui/resources/index.htm|title=Community currency guide by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith|website=publishing.yudu.com|access-date=2017-10-06}}</ref>
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=== Australia ===
The [[Government of Australia]], in 1989, allocated [[AU$]]50,000 for the development of LETSystems, including the running of state conferences, the production of software, a LETSystems Training Pack, and assistance to Michael Linton to visit [[Western Australia]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}} By 1995 there were 250 LETSystems in Australia, with Western Australia having 43 separate systems serving a population of 2.3 million (although actual participation is by only a tiny fraction of that population),<ref name=trainingpack/> making it then the region with the highest LETS coverage in the world.

From around 2007, many Australian LETS groups started trading online using the [[Community Exchange System]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}} This system allows new members to sign up directly, list offers and wants, and enter trades without assistance from the administrator.

By 2011 Australia had become the most active country on the [[Community Exchange System]], prompting [[Tim Jenkin]] and Annette Loudon to set up the Australian Community Exchange System.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brislets.com/2012/08/24/setting-up-an-australian-version-of-the-community-exchange-system/|title= Setting up an Australian version of the Community Exchange System|website=BrisLETS|date= 24 August 2012|access-date=1 January 2013}}</ref> {{as of|March 2019}} there were 31 communities using CES.<ref name=CESstats>{{cite web|website=Community Exchange System|url=https://www.community-exchange.org/home/cen-statistics/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329090019/https://www.community-exchange.org/home/cen-statistics/|url-status=live|title=Community Exchange Network Statistics|access-date=30 March 2019|archive-date=29 March 2019}}</ref>

=== Europe ===
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In the [[Czech Republic]], there are multiple LETS. [http://rozletse.cz Rozleťse], operating in the region of city of Brno sharing the same Cyclos3 server with other smaller groups in the regions of Jeseník, Ostrava and Beskydy.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}  The capital, [[Prague]], uses Pralets.<ref>[http://pralets.cz Pralets]</ref>

In [[Germany]], CES has 11 German communities on its network.<ref name=CESstats/>

In [[Switzerland]] an adaption of LETS, the Talent, was established and quite successfully launched in 1992.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} This spread out in Europe and spawned many other Talent-Groups in other countries.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

The [[United Kingdom]] has many LETS systems, many loosely affiliated to LETSLINK UK and some operating under the CES system, such as North London LETS.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LETS Link UK: Homepage |url=https://www.letslinkuk.net/ |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=www.letslinkuk.net}}</ref> In the UK Skillsbox operates an online community system similar to LETS, letting users trade their skills and time for credits which can be spent within the online community.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

The Flemish part of Belgium has many LETS groups. There is a non profit organization promoting LETS: Lets Vlaanderen vzw. They assist the local groups in starting up, they organize events, they share knowledge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.letsvlaanderen.be/lets-vlaanderen-vzw|title = LETS Vlaanderen > LETS Vlaanderen VZW}}</ref>

The Suska Kör (Suska Circle) is a CES in [[Hungary]] that is present in some of the major cities.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tuti|date=2013-03-06|title=Januártól Szegeden is "fizethetünk" suskával|url=https://szegedma.hu/2013/03/januartol-szegeden-is-fizethetunk-suskaval|access-date=2021-05-06|website=Szeged Ma|language=hu}}</ref>

In the Netherlands, there are approximately 55 LETS communities in 2024. <ref>https://letsnijmegen.nl</ref>

=== South and Central America, Caribbean ===
{{as of|March 2019}}, there were many active communities in the region being hosted on the CES global server: [[Argentina]] had 11; [[Brazil]] 14; [[Bolivia]] 1; [[Chile]] 9; [[Colombia]] 13; [[Costa Rica]] 3; [[Curaçao]] 1; [[Dominican Republic]] 2; Ecuador 3; [[Guatemala]] 1; [[Nicaragua]] 1; [[Paraguay]] 1; [[Peru]] 3; [[Puerto Rico]] 2; [[Sint Maarten]] 1; [[Trinidad and Tobago]] 2; [[Turks and Caicos Islands]] 1; [[Uruguay]] 3; [[US Virgin Islands]] 1; Venezuela 3.<ref name=CESstats/>