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Day 1: Tuesday, December 6
*italics indicates speaker
9:00am-9:30am Registration
9:30am-10:00am Welcome and introductions by Director Bill Maurer
10am-11:45am Session 1:Money Cultures: Identity, Wealth & Poverty
Discussant: David Pedersen, UC San Diego
- Beyond the Failed State: Capital Mobilization, Investment and Entrepreneurship Among Somali Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya by *Kenneth Omeje and John Mwangi
- Untouchable Wealth: The Moral Exchange of New Wealth among Women in an Urban Nepali Untouchable-Caste Community by Sepideh Bajracharya
- Tell Me How You Earn and Spend Money - And I Will Tell You Who You Are by Svetlana Tyukhteneva
11:45-1:30am Lunch (provided)
1:30pm-3:00pm Session 2: Mobile Money: Trust and Behavior Change
Discussant: Julia Elyachar, UC Irvine
- 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
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-5:00pm Session 3: Currencies in Collision
Discussant: Scott Mainwaring, Intel Labs
- Money Management and Mechanism in Palestinian Economy in Multi-Currencies Context by Nidal Rashid Sabri, Diama Abu Laban and Deema Waleed Haniya
- Deteriminants of the Demand for Micro-saving Programs in Uruguay: Motivation and Resistance to Join C3U by Magdalena Ramada-Sarasola, Henk van Arkel and Eduardo Tarragó
- 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
5:00pm-6:30pm Cocktail reception with dinner (provided)
Day 2: Wednesday, December 7
8:30am-9:00am Check-in
9:00am-10:30am Session 4: Mobile Money: Consequences for Poverty Alleviation
Discussant: Maria Stephens, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- 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
- 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
- Does Mobile Money Matter? Exploring Mobile Money Adoption by Ghana's Urban Poor by Vivian Dzokoto and Edwin Mensah
10 :30am-11:00am
Networking Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Session 5: Mobile Money: Adoption, Uptake & Transformation
Discussant: Jake Kendall, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 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
- 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
- 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
12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch (provided)
2:00pm-3:30pm
Session 6: Mobile Money: Lessons for Microfinance and Design
Discussant: Paul Dourish, UC Irvine
- Impact of Mobile Money Services on Microfinance Institutions by Patricia Pulido, Maricruz LaCalle and Casey Conzett
- Value Systems in China: A User-Centered Approach to Designing Inclusive Second-Generation Banking by Panthea Lee and Zach Brisson
- Best Practices in Mobile Microfinance by Fatima Yousif, Elizabeth Berthe, and Olga Morawczynski
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