... M-Pesa mobile money money disruptors telecommunications money ...

... inspired the development of mobile money services. This chapter provides an account of airtime as a form of money, and considers the regulations and risks around mobile money. mobile phone airtime mobile money regulation risk ...

... mobile phone airtime mobile money regulation risk ...

... is a mobile money service that allows everyday Kenyans to send small amounts of money to one another via their mobile phones. Mobile money services like M-Pesa inspire dreams of digital payments as well as positive social and economic benefits of going cashless. This chapter situates the book in light...

... mobile phone M-Pesa mobile money use case ...

... Since the mobile phone was the first technology in recent times to truly disrupt money—Kenya’s M-Pesa service having taken the country by storm—this chapter looks at what people do with phones besides make calls and send text messages. Understanding the use cases of the mobile phone was central...

... necessary for money, using mobile money as a case in point. origin of money evolution barter complementary currencies infrastructure ...

... What is money? This chapter provides an overview of classic and contemporary theories, and shifts the focus to where is money, and when is money? In introducing how the mobile phone became a key site for innovation in money, it suggests we learn from research into the diverse uses of the mobile...

... mobile phones money non-economic uses of money monetary ecologies and repertoires ...

... When we choose one form of money over another, hand over a debit card or pay by mobile phone, we make a political choice, and we participate in the making of a community. By exploring people’s monetary repertoires, and the use cases for money technologies, we also explore the constitution...

... distinctive, dense and abstract, suggestive and elusive. Zavaleta wrote his essay “The Masses in November” (1983) in the wake of the powerful general strike called by the Bolivian Workers Central ( cob ) in November 1979. The mobilization brought together mineworkers and Aymara peasant unions...