The session builds upon 2023 Interledger F|M awardees, Esther Mwema and Jon Adam Chen’s creative project, 'Sikhula Sonke: Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking.’
Through exploring the practice of village banking in southern Africa, the session will introduce audiences to the grassroots, locally embedded approach to financial inclusion and open payments. Providing a rare opportu…
The best way to learn is sometimes to argue both sides of a question. In this session, we offer participants an opportunity to get up out of their seats and actively debate each other on the topic of whether Digital Public Infrastructure is Inherently Gender Neutral.
You will be randomly assigned to be on the side of “Pro”, “Con”, or a judge. With the help of DPI Expert Facilitators, you will…
ThitsaX connectors are interconnected nodes that facilitate cross-ledger transactions. They leverage the Interledger Protocol to route and process payments across various payment systems and core back-end systems of different types of financial institutions, enabling transfers between diverse ledgers and networks. This network expansion promotes financial inclusion and creates an easily accessible…
Financial exclusion remains a significant barrier to sustainable development and equitable growth, and is an under-explored topic in United Nations policymaking fora. This in-person convening of the Dynamic Coalition on Digital Financial Inclusion - an intersessional working group convened under the auspices of the UN Internet Governance Forum - will offer the Interledger community an opportunity …
In this talk we will present our vision for shared infrastructure powered by the Mifos DPGs for core banking and payment orchestration. By enabling access to modern core banking in the cloud for last-mile financial institutions, we can fuel adoption of the ILF technology stack and enable the meaningful usage of digital financial services by under-represented groups and vulnerable populations.
Join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Deputy Director, Inclusive Financial Systems and ILF Board Member, Kosta Peric as he brings his perspective on the trends, innovations and projects that are shaping digital financial inclusion and what we can do together to shape it.
This demo will present the architecture behind People’s Clearinghouse solution and showcase a demo in which the audience will be able to send mock money from their Rafiki instances at rafiki.money towards a community bank’s account that doesn’t implement Rafiki.
In the last 7 years, the “transactions of everyday life” have increased 100x to 1,000x, even 10,000x across several sectors (e.g. cloud computing, energy, real time payments). Yet popular transaction databases are 20-30 years old, and even newer cloud databases are circa 2012, designed for a different workload and scale.
Research into maximizing durability (and therefore availability) has advan…
Unlike many of its peers, South Africa has made great progress towards financial inclusion, with 82% of the adult population having access to a bank account and 94% being financially included. Despite this, cash remains king and the adoption and utilization of digital payments are slow. This panel discussion will explore the barriers to increased adoption of digital payments in South Africa and w…
The proposed session, which will be led by the documentary's director, Victoria Coker, will delve into the complex issues that contribute to the significant number of unbanked and underbanked individuals in the United States, specifically people in Mississippi, New Orleans, and the NYC Metro area, and how these factors highly impact Black and Brown communities.
The panel will begin with an…
Discusses how different protocols can interact with each other to collaborate on making cross-border payments cheaper, simpler and available to everybody
In today’s landscape of increasingly riskier digital experiences and the recent Crowdstrike related IT global outage, universal access to digital financial services is seen as a critical infrastructural resource. Taking a decentralized approach that incorporates ethical design principles to safeguard the privacy, security, and autonomy of users is vital, that the Interledger Protocol seeks to fa…
