IMTFI’s First Annual Conference for Funded Researchers
November 4-5, 2009
Conference Program
Day 1: November 4th
9:30am-10:00am coffee and registration
10:00am-10:30am welcome and introductions, Director Bill Maurer
chair and discussant: Paul Dourish, UC Irvine
The Urban Poor and their Money
Mani Nandhi, Centre for Microfinance - Chennai,
India
Network Linkages and Money Management: An Anthropological Purview
of the Beesi Network amongst the Urban Poor Muslims in Old City Area
of
Lucknow, India
Syed Aiman Raza, Shia Degree College - Lucknow,
India
Analysis of Financial practices among Families in Two Cities Indigenous to
the
Highlands of
Chiapas, Mexico
Magdalena Villarreal, CIESAS- Tlalpan, Mexico
Maria Eugenia Santana, Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas
- Chiapas, Mexico
12:00pm-1:00pm break for lunch; lunch options offered nearby and at the UCI
Student Center
1:00pm-2:30pm Session 2: Existing indigenous money practices
chair and discussant: Mohammed Mohammed, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Borrowing from the Gods: Oracular Deities as Traditional Sources of Credit
among
the Igbo of Nigeria
Kenneth Omeje, United States International University
- Nairobi, Kenya
Forms of Money: An Inquiry into the Processes of Use and Adaptation
among the
Konda Reddis of South India
Thanuja Mummidi, French Institute of Pondicherry
- Pondicherry, India
Yesterday’s Nomads and Modern Money
Svetlana Tyukhteneva, Ethnoconsulting Ltd. - Moscow,
Russia
2:30pm-3:00pm break
3:00pm-4:30pm Session 3: Impact of m-banking and ICTs
chair and discussant: Jan Chipchase, Nokia Design
The Impact of New Technology on the Use of Money
as a Means of
Spending, Saving
and Storing by the Poor: A Case Study of Sri Lanka
Sirimevan S. Colombage, The Open University of Sri
Lanka - Nawala, Nugegoda
A Study of Money and Financial Services and the
Impact of ICTs among
Poor Communities
in
Developing Countries: The Case of Botswana
Beatrice Magembe and Alice Shemi, University of
Botswana - Gabarone, Botswana
E-money for Enhancing MDGs at Bottom of the Pyramid:
A Case Study for
M-Banking in Kenya
Francis Wambalaba, Akosa Wambalaba, Philip Machoka
United States International University - Nairobi,
Kenya
4:30pm-5:30pm reception, light refreshment will be served
Day 2: November 5th
9:00am-10:30am Session 4: Multiple currencies and local money systems
chair and discussant: Scott Mainwaring, Intel Research
Local Money Systems: Financial Inclusion and Reduction
of Poverty
Marco Crocco, Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Making Good Money: Microcredit, Commercial Financing,
and Social
Regulation in Paraguay’s Tri-Border Area
Caroline Schuster, University of Chicago - Chicago,
IL
Cubanos Convertibles: Meanings of Multiple Currencies
in Cuba
Mrinalini Tankha, Brandeis University - Waltham,
MA
10:30am-11:00am break
11:00am-12:30pm Session 5: Microfinance and technology
chair: Douglas Sabo, Visa Inc.
discussant: Michael Ferguson, Microfinance Opportunities
Tabula Rasa? Conceptions of Microfinance in Juba,
Sudan
Crystal Murphy Morgan, University of California,
Irvine
‘Democratizing Capital:’ Digital Lending Networks,
Mobile Technologies and
Women’s Solidarity Groups in Chiapas, Mexico
Anke Schwittay and Paul Braund, RiOS Institute -
Berkeley, CA
Financial Inclusion via Branchless Banking: What do we know about
low-income consumers so far
Mark Pickens, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
12:30pm-1:30pm break for lunch
; lunch options offered nearby and at the UCI Student Center
1:30pm-3:00pm Session 6: Alternative methods of managing finance and protection
against risk
chair and discussant: Wendy March, Intel Research
Follow the Bean: Navigating Value Exchange and Vulnerability
with Farmers
and their stakeholders
Melissa Cliver, Financial Alliance for Sustainable
Trade (FAST) - Montreal, Quebec
A Study on M-finance and Consumption Smoothening
among the Poor
with Irregular Income Streams
Harsha de Silva, LIRNEasia - Columbo, Sri Lanka
Managing Risks: What Poor Households in Yogyakarta
do to smooth
their consumption?
Catur Sugiyanto, Sri Yani Kusumastuti, and Duddy
Donna
Universitas Gadja Mada - Yogyakarta, Indonesia
3:00pm-4:00pm closing remarks, open discussion
4:00pm-4:45pm closing reception