Following Neighborly's "Future of Public Finance" conference this month, an extremely insightful blog post by Jase Wilson (Neighborly CEO) on how we must rewire public finance, especially given the critical inflection point our planet is at from both an environmental and socioeconomic standpoint.
In this era of unprecedented environmental, social and economic change, public finance must return to its roots and once again serve the needs of local visionaries. It could and should be funding innovation — like thousands of community broadband networks, so communities can secure their own access to information, and community microgrids, so communities can own their energy while decarbonizing our planet. And yet, it doesn’t.
https://neighborly.com/learn/lets-restart-the-hidden-economic-engine