Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion

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.

**Announcing Call for Proposals 2009-2010**

IMTFI is soliciting proposals for original scholarly research on the use of money as a means of saving, storing, and transferring value among the world’s poorest people. We welcome research proposals that focus on savings, fraud, financial literacy, social payments, and new technologies. Deadline: October 1, 2009. Read CFP details and guidelines.

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. 

• Read about the event at the Virtualpolitik blog.
• Please click here for conference details.
• See select PowerPoint Presentations from the conference. Papers and videos will be posted shortly.