Corrents like crowns. Prague 1 launches a project to support the local economy
Staromstsk town hall with astronomical clock. The remains of the perimeter walls of the neo-Gothic mansion were walled up. Only one extreme field remains, which is necessary for statistical protection.
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Petr Topi,
MAFRA
The principle of Corrency is that the people receive a member subsidy and decide for themselves which of the involved traders to apply it to. When they buy them, the people will be able to tie them to half the track, the rest will be paid from their own.
In addition to the support of local entrepreneurs, this model has, according to representatives of the town hall for the city council, in that it obtains data on which shops and services there is a real interest among the locals. She then takes me out for example when choosing some commercial space.
City councilor Karel Grabein Prochzka stated that the people will be able to register for the project online and physically, so that the selected 2,000 people will best match the demographics of Prague 1.
We will try to make the sample people as representative as possible, he said. He added that now, in cooperation with the provider Corenency, he will prepare a precise version of the trial project in the coming weeks. It is expected to operate in May and June.
The fee for the operator of the Corrency system will be seven percent of the total of two million crowns. Petr Stuchlk, the system’s CEO and former lawyer for YES, said that one of the other institutions, including the ministries, had to use the project. I am convinced that by the end of this year the system will run on many equal central centers.
The first two-month trial project of the Corrency system for the self-government took place last year in Kyjov. It was free for the town hall, the Ministry of Industry and Trade provided a subsidy for its functioning, and the company I, Foundation, which invented the project, paid 800,000 crowns for the inhabitants.
According to the creators, there were more than 1,500 inhabitants who, together with their own funds, supported local merchants with almost two million crowns. In Prague, in addition to Prague 1 involved in the project, it was approved by Prague 18.