Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion

This conference write-up synthesizes two days of IMTFI researcher presentations through a series of 7 blogposts (titles listed in bold within conference program below) on the IMTFI Blog authored by Liz Losh. View  IMTFI's fifth cohort of awarded research projects 2013 and complete IMTFI Conference Schedule 2013.

#1 - Burning a Hole in Your Pocket: Cash and Cashlessness (12/4/2013)

Session 1: Cash/Cashlessness - "Cashless or Cashlite? Mobile Money Use and Currency Redenomination in Zambia" (Zambia) by Vivian Dzokoto and Mwiya Imasiku; "Exploring the Nature, Scope and Feasibility of Existing Technological Infrastructure of India's National e-Governance Plan's Customer Service Scheme Towards Converting In-cash Transactions into Cashless Transactions" (India) by Amulya Krishna Champatiray and Parul Agarwal’ "Investing in Indigeneity: Big Bills, Fungibility, and Mobile" (Peru) by Eric Hirsch

#2 - Home Economics: Accounting, Monetary Practices and Financial Flows (12/4/2013)

Session 2: Accounting, Monetary Practices and Financial Flows – “Njangi Sociality: Mobility, ICTs, and Mobile Money Usages and Practics amongst Poor Rural Farmers in the Cameroon Grasslands" (Cameroon) by Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Divine Fuh; "How 'the Poor' Account: Financial Reckoning and its Cosmoeconomics in Assam, India" (India) by Sean Dowdy; "Contingency Routes: Somali Financial Flows and Transnational Spaces between Kenya and Uganda" (Kenya/Uganda) by Gianluca Iazzolino and Thomas Molony

#3 - Spinning Straw Into Gold: Women, Transformation and Inclusion (12/4/2013)

Session 3: Women, Transformation and Inclusion - "Understanding the Transformative Value of Tongan Women's Kau Tou Lalanga: Mobile Mats, Mobile Phones, and Money Transfer Agents" (Tonga) by Charmaine 'Ilaiu Talei; "Mobile Value-added Services for Inclusive Growth: A Study of Women Micro-entrepreneuers in Fiji" (Fiji) by Milind Sathye and Biman Prasad; "A Participatory Look at Women Traders' Cognitive Understanding and Perceptions of the Use of Mobile Money Systems in Northern Ghana" (Ghana) by Dennis Chirwaurah, Seidu Al-hassan and Deborah Elzie

#4 - Paying It Forward: Financial Inclusion and Mobile Money Uptake (12/5/2013)

Session 4: Financial Inclusion and Mobile Money Uptake - "Mobile Money Utility and Financial Inclusion: Insights from Unbanked Poor End-Users" (Nigeria/Ghana) by Lite Nartey, J. Adtunji Adegbesan and Olayinka David-West; "The Use and Impact of Mobile Money in the Delivery of Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines" (Philippines) by Erwin Alampay and Charle Cabotaje; "Understanding the Movement of Cash of the Privately Led Enterprises in Dharavi and Scope for Electronic or Mobile Payments" (India) by Deepti KC and Mudita Tiwari

#5 - Trickling Down and Spilling Over: Social Organization, Power & Hierarchy (12/5/2013)

Session 5: Social Organization, Power & Hierarchy - "Silk Societies, Gold Stories: Using Gold-Based Life Stories to Study Gender, Financial Inclusion and Work Vulnerability in South Indian Sericulture" (India) by Nithya Joseph; "Banking with the Patron: the Case of Patron-Client in Makassar, Indonesia" (Indonesia) by Tiar Mutiara Shantiuli and Salmah Said; "Mobilizing Religion as Value Storage: Islamic Microfinance in Bangladesh as a Model for Poverty Alleviation?" (Bangladesh) by Bridget Kustin; " How does Mobile Money Affect Adopters' Social Networks?" (Tanzania) by Alfredo Burlando, Cynthia Kinnan and Silvia Prina

#6 - Betting Against the House: Chance, Risk and Fraud (12/5/2013)

Session 6: Chance, Risk and Fraud - "Gambling and Mobile Money Payments: A Case Study of Sports Betting in Uganda" (Uganda) by Bruno Yawe and Kizito Ssengooba; "Challenges Facing the Uptake of M-Insurance Loyalty Based Life Insurance Schemes: A Case Study of the yuCover Microinsurance scheme in Kenya" (Kenya) by Nelson Karani Nyachiro and Cyrus Isaboke; "Automated Teller Machine Fraud in South-West Nigeria: The Shoe-Wearer's Perspective" (Nigeria) by Oludayo Tade and Oluwatosin Adeniyi

#7 - Showing and Telling: Corridors, Networks and Agents (12/8/2013)

Session 7: Corridors, Networks and Agents (the Indian Case) - "One Among Many? Examining the Efficacy of Mobile Money in India's Remittance Corridors" by Amrit Pal; "The New Information Ecosystem Being Developed Around Mobile Money: A Behavioral Analysis of Mobile Money Users in India" by Lakshmi Kumar; "Spatial Complementarity of Mobile Financial Services, Business Correspondents and Banking Infrastructures: Accounting for Mobile Financial Services Ecosystems in India" by K.V. Nithyanada and Cyril Fouillet