Executives from four leading Latin American organizations dedicated to grassroots financial inclusion in poor and marginalized regions of Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador, will discuss what real financial inclusion means, how payment digitalization is transforming their regions and why new open source technologies like ILP can become important allies in expanding their mission for real fin…
FUTURE|MONEY Was the first open grant opportunity for 2023. The goal was to seek artists of any discipline to reimagine outdated financial systems that currently exclude 1.7 billion people from accessing essential services to make and receive payments.
Imagining the Future is often based on our own memories and imaginations of our surroundings. We asked the artists to dive into their imagination …
This session will provide an overview of the highly successful approach taken by India and Brazil towards the provision of digital public infrastructure through the standardization of payment interfaces. This is particularly timely as the most recent G20 Digital Economy Ministers meeting held in India recognized the growth of digital public infrastructures, including in the sphere of digital payme…
Bringing Down a Mountain, a speculative film centered around the push and pull between caste abolition and the Unified Payment Interface of India, will be premiered at the Interledger (ILP) Summit 2023.
Had enough power point presentations?
Opt for a get-out-of-your seats Immersive Experience where you can “walk in the shoes” of a woman in a rural geography of a developing country, experiencing the challenges and benefits of a digital wallet in their daily life.
You'll laugh, you might cry, and you'll definitely learn something new.
Empowering the individual End-user to become their own 'Payment Service Provider', reducing transaction fees (with ILP), and increasing payment convenience to create a fairer and more inclusive world.
PaymentHUB is a payments orchestration "gateway" that connects legacy banking systems to modern payment infrastructure and is open source. ExtoPay is a new offline biometric driven hardware solution that is being piloted as part of India's Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Harbinger project to enable secure transactions across a range of use cases. The demo is about linking these two co…
The Waterworks of Money is a metaphorical representation of our money system, made by cartographer Carlijn Kingma, financial journalist Thomas Bollen, and professor New Finance Martijn Jeroen van der Linden. The Waterworks of Money is an artistic attempt to demystify the financial world, boost ‘systemic financial literacy’ and explore alternative future architectures of the monetary system.
The…
If ILP can potentially unlock economic power on the Web, how can that economic power be directed towards building Digital Public Infrastructure? In this collaborative world-building workshop, we’ll introduce the idea of DPI and reimagine what our tech institutions of the future could look like, and walk participants through a series of exercises to co-design ways that ILP can be used to bring thes…
The coalescence of competitive forces around few major digital platforms has given rise to a new type of competitive environment, which is characterized by the co-existence and interdependence of multiple economic actors with a shared interest in value creation. These dynamics can be explained by some of the characteristic features of the platform economy, namely interconnectedness, modularity, an…
