SSI — Community Safety Net
SSI — Sécurité Sociale Intégrale
SSI is a mutual-aid system built on free currency (Ğ1), letting local collectives support one another directly, with no middleman. Here we explain how it works — and you can help shape it.
The principle
How a collective could organise itself
Pool resources
A group pools part of its resources to support each other, rather than everyone managing alone.
Decide together
The rules are set by the members themselves, not imposed from above — each collective chooses its own governance.
Meet regularly
Regular get-togethers build the human connection that keeps a mutual-aid network going over time — far more than any digital tool.
Adapt to the ground
What works in one place doesn't necessarily work elsewhere: each collective stays free to adjust its own rules to its local reality.
A network, not a pyramid
Independent collectives, connected to each other
Each circle represents an independent collective. None is above another — they choose freely to cooperate, share ideas, and learn from one another.
An example
What does it actually look like?
Léa sells her vegetables for €2 + 1 DU per kilo. When Tom buys a kilo, he pays €2 and 1 DU. His SSI fund refunds that DU within a few days — a bit more if Léa meets social and environmental criteria her fund has chosen. Each member can recover up to a monthly cap (40 DU by default, adjustable per fund) from the producers they've chosen to support.
The framework
Is this legal?
SSI is a solidarity system between members of the same collective, funded by free donations in Ğ1 (a currency not convertible into euros) and redistributed according to ethical, social and environmental criteria decided collectively. No SSI fund ever handles euro flows, and the platform never holds the funds — each treasurer keeps control of their own wallet.
Sécurité Sociale Intégrale is an independent initiative and is not part of the official French Social Security system. It does not benefit from any public-service delegation in that respect.
Ğ1 reimbursements are granted by each fund within the limits of its available resources and according to its own rules; they do not constitute a contractual guarantee of compensation.
Governance
Deciding together, without burning out
Each fund chooses its own rules. Two useful landmarks: consensus seeks everyone's agreement — valuable but slow; consent just seeks the absence of a serious objection — faster, better suited to a collective that needs to keep moving. Each fund's parameters (caps, criteria) are reviewed at least once a year by its members, to stay fair and up to date.
Join
Want to try SSI?
Access to the real features (joining a fund, being rated, receiving a Ğ1 refund) is by request. Tell us who you are, and we'll get back to you.
Work in progress
Questions we're still asking ourselves
Vote
Which question should we tackle first?
Pick the question that feels most urgent to you — results update live.
An idea, a thought, a comment?
No need to apply as a collective to share your view — just tell us what you think, in a few words.
Want to experiment?
What if there were solidarity beyond the euro?
No commitment: this project is in a listening phase. We'll get back to each collective individually.
