Posts By: Nick Vieira

Visualizing crowdfunding and beyond

By Nick Vieira, April 4, 2014

Irina Enache and Robert van Boeschoten introduced MoneyLab’s interactive Crowdfunding Visual Toolkit to the audience during the seventh session on the final day of the conference. Enache is an alternative revenue models researcher for the Institute of Network Cultures, specifically for the Moneylab project, and Van Boeschoten is a lecturer at Universiteit voor Humanistiek, with [...]

Mobile Money

By Nick Vieira, March 29, 2014

Bill Maurer moderated the fourth session of MoneyLab on mobile money. He introduced the topic as growing out of a grassroots movement in sub-Saharan Africa, when people who were using pre-paid mobile phones realized they could send airtime to each other via phones as an alternative currency, and as a mechanism of settling debts, amongst [...]

Non-money

By Nick Vieira, March 28, 2014

Following Saskia Sassen’s talk were the Heidenreich brothers, authors of the book “Mehr Geld” (or “More Money” in German). The pair presented their latest work “Non-money”, that looks at money from the standpoint of finance with the goal to criticize the issue of money since, the two argue, this is technologically obsolete today. They started [...]

Finance Is Not About Money

By Nick Vieira, March 28, 2014

Saskia Sassen joined speakers Stefan and Ralph Heidenreich and Bill Maurer in the first panel of the MoneyLab conference – “Monetization of Everything”. Sassen is a long time friend of Geert Lovink and famous for coining the term “global city”. She opened the session by stating that “it is a mistake to think that finance [...]