Collecting the present: Partnering with researchers to document new developments in money
Collecting the present: Partnering with researchers to document new developments in money
- May 20, 2015
- IMTFI is featured by the Smithsonian blog May 20, 2015
From the Smithsonian:
Ellen Feingold is the curator of the National Numismatic Collection—the national money
collection—housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She explains
why she works with researchers from a variety of fields to help the museum document
what is happening in money around the world… The Institute for Money, Technology,
and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) at the University of California-Irvine is funding
research on how new technologies of money are impacting the world’s poorest communities.
This geographically diverse community of researchers works on a vibrant range of topics,
such as how a rural community in Ghana considers their ancestors' beliefs when making
decisions about the use of mobile money technology, the role of television comedy
in increasing financial literacy in Cambodia, and the relationship between mobile
money technologies and food production in rural Potosi, Bolivia. (To learn more about
this year's conference, see this post on IMFTI's blog.)
For the full post, please visit http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/collecting-present-partnering-researchers-document-new-developments-money.
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