Dear Colleagues,
The University of Washington's Digital Financial Services Research Group
(DFSRG) will host a Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop on October
4th. This event will take place in the Gate's Commons in the Paul G. Allen
Center for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE 691) between 1-4:45 pm,
with a reception to follow from 5-6 pm.
The goal of this workshop is to bring members of the DFS academic community
together with industry partners to develop an agenda for successful
collaboration on research and the dissemination of new technologies. We
will also share some of our research team member's recent research results.
The University of Washington's DFSRG focuses on developing technologies for
people from resource constrained regions around the world to facilitate
financial inclusion and alleviate poverty. More broadly, we collaborate
with social scientists and industry partners, including the newly opened
FinTech Center at Information Technology University in Lahore. Some of our
current research highlights include an exploration of mobile money adoption
and use by women in Pakistan, the implementation of digital agricultural
directories to facilitate business transactions in Tanzania, and an
evaluation of security within digital transactions.
The UW DFS Workshop will highlight two panels: 1) "Gender and Mobile Money"
with panelists Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech), Emer Dooley (UW Foster School of
Business), Skye Gilbert (PATH), and Samia Ibtasam (UW CSE) and 2) "DFS
Technologies" with panelists Ben Lyon (Caribou Digital), Heidi Stephens
Metz (Imani), Kurtis Heimerl (UW CSE), and Sam Castle (UW CSE). We will
feature talks from Himanshu Nagpal, the Interim Deputy Director for
Financial Services for the Poor, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;
Jake Kendall, the Director of Digital Financial Services Innovation Lab, at
Caribou Digital; and Joyojeet Pal, Assistant Professor, at the University
of Michigan School of Information. Also, our graduate students will offer a
poster session to accompany the reception.
Please send inquiries to jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu.
We hope to see you there!
Best,
--
*Jen Webster*
*Research Coordinator, **Digital Financial Services Research Group*
*Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering*
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu