Welcome to the Institute for Money, Technology & 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 & technology among the world's poorest
people. We create a community of practice & inquiry into the everyday uses & meanings
of money, as well as the technological infrastructures being developed as carriers
of mainstream & alternative currencies worldwide.
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events
Money, Debt and New Technologies in Africa
July 2, 2017
12th Annual International Ethnography Symposium: Politics and Ethnography in an Age of Uncertainty
August 29, 2017 - September 1, 2017
Using Blockchain to Secure the Supply Chain
November 14, 2017
news
A 20-year reflection and a look forward at social and behavioral science in the new century
October 10, 2017
Soc sci dean Maurer to MC research sponsors' panel at 20th anniversary meeting of National Academy of Sciences Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences
ICA debunks link between cash and crime
September 27, 2017
IMTFI's recent white paper, "Keeping Cash: Assessing the Arguments about Cash and Crime" by Ursula Dalinghaus, Ph.D., is featured in this month's issue of Currency News (Vol 15 - No 9), a trade medium of the currency industry (available by subscription only)