From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
   The Ontario Government has asked for suggestions on new   
   systems:   
      
   https://talks.ontario.ca/home?destination=node/27   
      
   Budget Talks   
   Do you have an idea to make things easier for people in their   
   everyday lives? Submit your project proposal. We'll put final   
   ideas to a public vote and, if chosen, spend up to $3 million   
   to bring up to eight projects to life.   
      
   https://talks.ontario.ca/project/online-lets-local-employment-tr   
   ding-system-timebank   
      
   So I filed:   
   Project Online LETS (Local Employment-Trading System) Timebank   
   has been created.   
      
   I want Ontario to spend an undetermined amount to fund a   
   digital service about helping citizens trade time at work in   
   order to increase access to child care.   
      
   What is your project idea?   
   Online LETS Timebank   
      
   The LETS (Local Employment-Trading System) is a timebank   
   software where donors and recipients log Hours of service   
   though a skilled mechanic may command 3 Hours/hour, a dentist   
   6 Hours/hour but the base rate is an Hour of unskilled or   
   youth labor. What a user can command is what a user can get.   
      
   LETS permits single and poor parents to log on what nights   
   they are free to double-duty baby-sit and what rate they   
   charge and then pay each other with Hour notes even when   
   broke.   
      
   In Japan, the Fureai Kippu Health Care Timebank allows   
   citizens donating time to official health care services to   
   later receive such time for care in return. I have heard that   
   over half of the population are registered.   
      
   This would be a digital service that was within the financial   
   purview of other jurisdictions. Though I am not able to   
   estimate the cost, I do believe I have estimated the great   
   benefits but still believe that programmers for a pilot   
   project should be doable with under the million dollar cap for   
   what others have already accomplished and in as little time as   
   it takes to announce the site.   
      
   How will this idea provide a solution?   
   A Timebank Service would greatly benefit both those who need   
   child-care and those who need health-care services and the   
   students who could help provide them too.   
      
   Is there anything else we should consider?   
   Youth Work-bees cleaning up the environment 1 Hour at a time.   
      
   JCT: Let's hope people vote to give it a try.   
      
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