Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion

This conference write-up synthesizes two days of IMTFI researcher presentations through a series of 8 blogposts (titles listed in bold within conference program below) on the IMTFI Blog authored by Liz Losh. View  IMTFI's third cohort of awarded research projects 2011. 

#1 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Beyond the 99% (12/6/2011) Welcome and Introductions by Bill Maurer, IMTFI Director

#2 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Failed States, Shitting Grounds, and Ethnic Slurs (12/6/2011)

Session 1: Money Cultures: Identity, Wealth & Poverty - “Beyond the Failed State: Capital Mobilization, Investment and Entrepreneurship Among Somali Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya” by Kenneth Omeje and John Mwangi, United States International University (USIU);“Do Tobacco Growers Need Financial Inclusion? An Analysis into the Monetary Problems and Prospects Enshrouding Farmers Harvesting Tobacco in Basti District, Uttar Pradesh, India” by Syed Aiman Raza, Shia P.G. College; “Untouchable Wealth: The Moral Exchange of New Wealth among Women in an Urban Nepali Untouchable-Caste Community” by Sepideh Bajracharya, University of Michigan; “Tell Me How You Earn and Spend Money - And I Will Tell You Who You Are” by Svetlana Tyukhteneva, Ethnoconsulting, Ltd.

#3 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Who Do You Trust? Me or Your Lying Eyes? (12/6/2011)

Session 2: Mobile Money: Trust and Behavior Change- “Does Microloan Repayment via Cell Phone Increase Client Confidence in Mobile Value Storage? The Case of Green Bank in Mindanao, Philippines” by Anatoly Gusto and Felicidad Justiniana, MICRA Philippines; “Exploring Use of Mobile Banking Services by the Poor: Case of Wizzit Bank in South Africa” by Mildred Makore, University of KwaZulu Natal; “Impact of EKO's SimpliBank on the Saving Behaviour and Practices of Low Income Users: The Indian Experience” by Mani Arul Nandhi, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)

#4- Liz Losh's Guest Blog: From Statecraft to Neighborhood Soap Operas (12/6/2011)

Session 3: Currencies in Collision-“Money Management and Mechanism in Palestinian Economy in Multi-Currencies Context” by Nidal Rashid Sabri, Diama Abu Laban and Dima Waleed Haniya, Bizreit University; “Determinants of the Demand for Micro-saving Programs in Uruguay: Motivation and Resistance to Join C3U” by Magdelena Ramada-Sarasola, Henk van Arkel and Eduardo Tarragó, Social Trade Organization (STRO) and Innovation & Research Multiplier; “The Financial Ecologies and Circuits of Commerce of Retail Credit Cards in Santiago de Chile” by Jose Ossandon Valdes, Tomas Ariztia, Macarena Barros and Filipe Gonzalez, Universidad Diego Portales

#5 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Self-Recognition and Brand-Recognition in African Moneyscapes (12/7/2011)

Session 4: Mobile Money: Consequences for Poverty Alleviation -“Mobile Money Services and Entrepreneurial Development in Rural Communities: The Case of the Agricultural Kikuyu and Pastoral Maasai Communities in Kenya” by Karatu Kiemo and Barbara Leseni, University of Nairobi; “Mobile Money Services and Poverty Reduction: A Study of 21 Women's Groups in the Rural Region of Eastern Kenya” by Ndunge Kiiti and Jane Mutinda, Houghton College; “Does Mobile Money Matter? Exploring Mobile Money Adoption by Ghana's Urban Poor” by Vivian Dzokoto and Edwin Mensah, Virginia Commonwealth University

#6 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Taking Mobile Money Out for a Test Drive (12/7/2011) 

Session 5: Mobile Money: Adoption, Uptake & Transformation-“An Assessment of Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Services in East Africa: Case Studies from Uganda and Tanzania” by Batilda Moshy and Paul Mukwaya, Sokoine University of Agriculture; “Differences Between Fee Structure of Mobile Money Technologies and Traditional Banking Systems, Social Psychological Determinants and Service Uptake: A Case Study of Uganda” by Bruno Yawe and Tinah Nassali, Makerere University; “Mobile Phone Cash In Cash Out Service in a Frontier Area: The Dynamics of New Money Technology and Embedded Systems of Money Relationships” by Jose L. Estuar, Eastern Twinstars Foundation, Inc.

#7 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Design is More Than Copy and Paste (12/7/2011)

Session 6: Mobile Money: Lessons for Microfinance and Design-“Impact of Mobile Money Services on Microfinance Institutions” by Patricia Pulido, Maricruz LaCalle and Casey Conzett, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid; “Value Systems in China: A User-Centered Approach to Designing Inclusive Second-Generation Banking” by Panthea Lee and Zach Brisson, Reboot’ “Best Practices in Mobile Microfinance” by Fatima Yousif, Elizabeth Berthe, and Olga Morawczynski, Grameen Foundation

#8 - Liz Losh's Guest Blog: Desires and Needs (12/7/2011)