Online Resources

Institutes

• UC Irvine Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion
• CGAP: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
• Center for Financial Services Innovation
• Financial Services for the Poor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Publications

• Keith Hart, The Memory Bank
• OECD, The Future of Money

Student Projects

• Anthropology of Money in Southern California, UC Irvine
• The Future of Money, Royal College of Art, London
• Johanna Brewer, SeeShell project, UC Irvine

Businesses

• WIZZIT Bank, South Africa
• Vodaphone/Safaricom: M-PESA service in Kenya
• NTT DoCoMo services: Osaifu-Keitai (mobile phones with wallet functionality)
• Zopa - social lending website: uk.zopa.com and us.zopa.com
• Grameen-Intel

Other Sites

• Transaction Net: LETS - Local Exchange Trading Systems
• Hannes van Rensburg's M-Banking blog, South Africa
• NextBillion.net
• Mobile Europe
• Ethical Markets Media
• PBS: The Ascent of Money (2009); Electric Money (2001); Secrets of Making Money (1996);

Comments

[John]

You might also like to check the site at http://www.mobilephonebanking.rbap.org to see how rural banks are making use of mobile money to facilitate access to banking services.