Brett Scott – Applying the Hacker Ethic to the Financial System

By philip, April 2, 2014

In his talk, Brett Scott discussed how hacker ethics could be applied to the financial system. He began by speaking about different power relations in finance. Scott claims that the way people imagine the financial sector to function can only perpetuate the inherent power differential that already exists. People imagine finance as a complex industry [...]

Mobile Money and the Social and Technological Infrastructures of Transaction

By philip, March 28, 2014

The talk by Taylor Nelms focused on lessons learned throughout his work at the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion. His research interest is on monetary ecologies, more specifically on how currencies interact with each other. Nelms’ presentation at MoneyLab focused on mobile money, and particularly p2p transactions. Nelms began by complicating the traditional [...]

Mobile Money and Social (or Anti-Social) Security

By philip, March 28, 2014

The self-described ‘reformed tech geek’ Gawain Lynch built on his experience in information security and asset protection in order to discuss some of the issues currently surrounding the growing field of mobile money. He discussed security as one such major issue. Lynch began by describing how obscurity is commonly used to provide security for cash [...]

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Brett Scott – Applying the Hacker Ethic to the Financial System

Mobile Money and the Social and Technological Infrastructures of Transaction

Mobile Money and Social (or Anti-Social) Security