This interactive session seeks to explore, understand, and amplify the engagement of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) within open communities. Whether it’s open-source software, open web, or open protocols, open communities play a pivotal role in today's global digital era.
In this session, we will provide an overview of the inclusive payment network that is underway of development to serve at least 5 million clients, including 3 million women in Myanmar.
In 2020, during the pandemic, the Brazilian government created the PIX payment method, which is revolutionizing digital payments in Brazil and opening a whole new world of possibilities for more financial inclusion. Only in 2022, PIX moved 12 trillion reais (around 2.5 trillion USD) between people and companies in Brazil.
Especially for small business owners/entrepreneurs and content creators, …
This session explores the revolutionary development of India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and its implications on the global open payments landscape. By investigating the successes, challenges, and unique characteristics of UPI, we talk about the potential pathways for integrating systems like UPI with the Interledger Protocol (ILP), setting the stage for a new era in cross-border payme…
The People's Clearinghouse (PCH) is a community-owned tech platform for payments and financial services, that interconnects community banks and savings coops. By implementing Rafiki, PCH will use ILP to record financial obligations that correspond to incoming remittances sent from US-based wallets (which also implement Rafiki) towards PCH's participants. This demo aims to demonstrate the…
Changes at Twitter and Reddit in 2023 caused millions people to rebuild their online communities on new platforms. Many chose products like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy that were built on the Web platform’s social APIs. Instead of a single company controlling everything, thousands of independently managed communities joined together to create a social web.
Digital creators can now own their so…
With the Ukrainian war next door, and myself being Romanian, many things changed. Lots of Ukrainians got refuge in Romania and I got to experience first hand their stories.
What surprised me the first time, was the fact that some women struggled with technology - with maps, with exchanges etc. They were the ones fleeing with kids as the husbands (mostly male) remained home/got blocked by the ar…
In this talk, Uchi introduces Chimoney's Wallet integration with Interledger and how it connects traditional financial systems like Bank accounts to emerging payment systems like the XRP ledger to unlock economic opportunities for everyone, everywhere and enhance financial inclusion
The talk showcases real-world products using the integration and shares stories of use cases in Africa and N…
This talk explores ways open payments can help in productizing secure user research (and applied research) into a platform. Therefore enabling more remote, distributed research, reducing barriers to entry for conducting research, and promoting more diversity and inclusion among researchers and participants.
