A caffè sospeso – pending coffee – is a tradition in Naples. It began in the working-class cafés, where someone who had experienced good luck would order a sospeso, paying the price of two coffees but receiving and consuming only one. A person enquiring later whether there was a sospeso available would then be served a coffee for free.

This ritual becomes digital through Banco dei sospesi: a free digital platform, a virtual notice board that connect who want to pend with who receive.

On the platform it is possibile:

• to pend an action
• to suggest a new action to be offered
• to apply to receive an action