Luxembourg - 25 October 2019 - 14:00 to 18:00
As part of Financial Inclusion Week organised annually by the Center for Financial Inclusion,
Sikoba, De Kär and Etika organised a conference about alternative approaches to financial inclusion.
The main themes of the conference were: P2P IOU/credit systems, complementary currencies and UBI (Universal Basic Income)
Presentation slides and videos are available below.
Thank you to all our speakers, co-hosts and everyone who attended.
Vulnerabilities in Mobile Money - Next Steps for Securing Digital Financial Inclusion
[video]
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
University of Luxembourg MoneyBox
Tegawendé is a researcher at the Uni of Luxembourg. He investigates vulnerabilities in the mobile money ecosystem & is leading the SIGMMA / MoNeyBox initiative that develops a highly secured software stack for mobile money in Africa on top of a Blockchain infrastructure.
Alfred Groff, PhD
Psychologist, Activist, Author
(including a book on UBI)
Alfred holds a PhD in psychology, psychopathology and psychiatry from the University of Salzburg. He has written extensively on universal basic income, democracy & money, social threefolding, regional currencies and integral consciousness.
Why Integrate Into Capitalism? An Alternative Development With Alternative Currencies
[slides][video]
Max Hilbert
De Kär / Beki
Max is the coordinator of Luxembourg’s only regional currency, the Beki. During his studies of communication science, he focussed on money as a social medium and wrote his master thesis about the “mystification of money.”
Financing UBI:
Not a Money Issue
[video]
Alex Hornung
Senior Manager at BIL
Alex works in the treasury department of BIL. The 2008 financial crisis awakened his interest for looking deeper into current economic and financial systems. He co-founded the Luxembourg UBI Initiative in 2010 and in 2016 co-founded the first housing cooperative in Luxembourg.
Jean Lasar
Survcoin
Jean Lasar, a journalist and climate activist, is launching the survcoin, a currency designed to stimulate carbon footprint reduction efforts and lead to the emergence of an ecosystem of decarbonising initiatives.
The Challenges That Microfinance Has Not Met...
[slides]
Marine Lefebvre
SOS FAIM Luxembourg
Marine is responsible for the information and advocacy service of SOS FAIM Luxembourg, a development NGO that fights hunger and poverty by supporting sustainable family farming
in several African countries.
Aleksander Masternak
University of Amsterdam
Aleks is a researcher in political theory and tutor at PPLE College, University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on UBI, alternative economic institutions, post-work theory, and political realism.
The Challenges That Microfinance Has Not Met...
[video]
Alexandre Mortelette
SOS FAIM Luxembourg
Alexandre works as information assistant and deals with advocacy & political issues at SOS Faim, a development NGO working for food sovereignty through the development of family agriculture. He is also pursuing a master's degree in European governance at the Uni of Luxembourg.
Jean-Sébastien Zippert
Etika
Jean-Sébastien is the coordinator of Etika, which is a non-profit organisation founded in 1996. Etika aims to promote alternative financing and responsible investment, in order to promote access to credit for initiatives that give priority to social and cultural utility & international solidarity.
Sikoba [http://www.sikoba.com] is building an IOU platform on blockchain: a system to register, track and clear debt. Targeted at small and micro-businesses in the developing world, its goal is to overcome the limitations of informal credit systems and reduce money dependency.
De Kär asbl is the initiator of the Beki [http://beki.lu], Luxembourg's only regional currency. Launched in January 2013, the Beki is widely used in the canton of Reding today.
Etika [https://etika.lu] is a non-profit organisation founded in 1996 which aims to promote alternative financing and responsible investment, in order to promote access to credit for initiatives that give priority to social and cultural utility and international solidarity.
Financial Inclusion Week [http://financialinclusionweek.org] is a week of global conversation on the most important steps needed to advance financial inclusion. Now in its 5th year, Financial Inclusion Week 2019 is an opportunity to strengthen the diverse community of players involved in building a more inclusive financial ecosystem.
The objectives of Financial Inclusion Week are:
- To bring the entire financial inclusion community together to explore issues of financial inclusion beyond access
- To create leadership opportunities among diverse stakeholders
- To create dialogue and community
- To foster partnership and coordination within the financial industry