Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

Year
2023

17 results

  1. Chimoney

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Nigeria, Canada, US
    Project lead: Uchi Uchibeke

  2. ILF Community Ambassador - Peter-Paul Koch

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Peter-Paul Koch

  3. ILF Open-Source Ambassador Santosh Viswanatham

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Santosh Viswanatham

  5. The Parallel Society

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Xiaoji Song

    In what ways do a migrant who journeys thousands of miles from their homeland and a rural villager who has only known the town adjacent to their birthplace echo, despite their seemingly disparate backgrounds? The Parallel Society is a storytelling game that explores financial inclusion and equity by featuring the parallel fate of two characters, a Lebanese migrant in Barcelona and a villager in rural China's Henan province. The game sheds light on financial traumas, such as behavior patterns and psychological impacts as results of financial exclusions experienced by these two characters, and radically imagines a world where such barriers no longer exist, but the characters are still trapped in the old pattern.

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  6. Anemoia or Scenes from the Future

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz

    Narrative short film. When a series of giant museums begin to appear out of thin air, housing numerous photographs depicting business and entrepreneurial ingenuity, the world slowly begins to understand the purpose of these photographs: a future that is not set, but could be attainable if financial inequity was reconciled.

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    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Subhashish Panigrahi

    Bringing Down A Hill: is a documentary short centered around the idea that "financial inclusion is a right, not a privilege, and that financial systems should work for everyone, everywhere". The film would reimagine with communities how they would want to make digital payment systems work for them and move exclusionary barriers, while critiquing Indiaā€™s Unified Payment Interface (UPI). UPI amounts to 52% of Indiaā€™s digital transactions and has helped many first-generation mobile users transact conveniently. But, it also excludes a large number of people due to linguistic, literacy, tech fluency, frauds and many other barriers.

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  8. Liminal Matter

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Lena Ghaninejad

    Liminal Matter is a mixed-media installation combining grains (barley), black obsidian/coltan and 3D hologram technology. The installation aims to illustrate the evolution of money from tangible matter that originates directly from the Earth (grains, food & stones), into an increasingly immaterial entity which leaves more people behind as financial systems complexify and access to technology remains limited -thus asking the question: how can we best share the planet's resources?

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  9. Loose Chains

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mia Wright-Ross

    Loose Change (Chains) reimagines a structure by which the litter of Hope based lottery tickets can be collected, recycled, and reflected (by Black & Brown Community Liaisons) to question the theologies of money, poverty, wealth, gain, loss, and hope that persists through the Capitalist White Supremacist's systems that prevails within the history and legacy of the U.S. Lottery

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  10. RESIMULATE: Econonomic agendas to (get rich and) stop worrying about the future.

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Mexico
    Project lead: Felipe Brugues

    RESIMULATE explores the effectiveness of financial and economic programs popular in the self-help business literature and in various worldwide political policies in generating financial inclusion. With the use of interactive computational simulations of economic models, RESIMULATE directs two large-scale 3D clay printers. Through the expression in the sculptural possibilities, the voids, weaknesses, and even strengths of financial systems and strategies take shape and become self-evident.

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