Reimagining Money
Reimagining Money Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology…
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Reimagining Money
Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology changes the economic and social landscape, allowing users to create webs of relationships as they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share digital money in user-built networks. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden.
She describes how urban and transnational migrants maintain a presence in rural areas through money gifts; how families use crowdfunding software to assemble donations for emergency medical care; and how new financial groups invest in real estate and fund These networks, Kusimba argues, will shape the future of financial technologies and their impact on poverty, inclusion, and empowerment.