Welcome

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Welcome to the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI). Established in 2008, the Institute is housed in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Its mission is to support research on money and technology among the world's poorest people: those who live on less than $1 per day. We seek to create a community of practice and inquiry into the everyday uses and meanings of money, as well as the technological infrastructures being developed as carriers of mainstream and alternative currencies worldwide.

IMTFI's First Annual Conference for Funded Researchers: REGISTER

Please join us for IMTFI's First Annual Conference. Award recipients will be making presentations on their current projects. The conference will be open to the public November 4-5, 2009 at UC Irvine. For conference details, please click here. To learn more about IMTFI's currently funded projects, see Funded Research.

More Information: Bottom of the Pyramid Workshop—June 1-2, 2009

IMTFI, along with the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), and Intel Research, held "The Bottom of the Pyramid in Practice" Conference at UC Irvine June 1-2. 2009.