<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">***Apologies for cross-posting***</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Please distribute as you see fit</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Gianluca</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Gianluca Miscione<br>University College Dublin<br><a href="http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione" target="_blank">http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione</a><br></font><br></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Quinn Dupont</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:quinn.dupont@ucd.ie" target="_blank">quinn.dupont@ucd.ie</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 7:35 PM<br>Subject: CITO Lecture MONDAY, March 29 at 3pm IST: “Kenya’s digital financial boom and the colonial histories of financial infrastructures”<br>To: <<a href="mailto:MIS-UCD@listserv.heanet.ie" target="_blank">MIS-UCD@listserv.heanet.ie</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Please join us on MONDAY,* March 29 at 3pm Irish Standard Time (10am EST) for Nicholas Bernards (University of Warwick) who will be discussing “<b>Kenya’s digital financial boom and the colonial histories of financial infrastructures</b>”<div>*Please note: IST and BST start March 28 and this CITO lecture is being exceptionally held on Monday instead of Tuesday</div><div><br><div>Abstract<br>Kenya’s digital finance boom is a paradigmatic case of the role of financial technologies (fintech) in development and poverty reduction, both for advocates and critics of fintech. Recent discussions, however, have tended not to closely examine the fundamental unevenness of this boom, in two senses. Drawing on engagements with Marxian conceptions of uneven development and recent debates on financial infrastructures, I link both of these patterns to the durable legacies of the distinctive political economy of colonialism in Kenya. Given the growing importance of Kenya’s digital finance boom in broader policy and academic debates about fintech, this case suggests a need for greater attention to the uneven nature of fintech applications.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>No registration required. Zoom link: <a href="https://bit.ly/38jLEVN" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/38jLEVN</a></div><div><br></div><div>For more information, please contact Quinn DuPont (<a href="mailto:quinn.dupont@ucd.ie" target="_blank">quinn.dupont@ucd.ie</a>)</div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-- <a href="http://iqdupont.com" target="_blank">iqdupont.com</a><br><a href="https://people.ucd.ie/quinn.dupont" target="_blank">Assistant Professor</a>, School of Business, University College Dublin</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><b>-Select Recent Work-</b></div><div>"<a href="https://assets.pubpub.org/mnq2yqpw/21581689302674.pdf" target="_blank">Guiding Principles for Ethical Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and DLT Research</a>" (2020)</div><div>"<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2020.1725851" target="_blank">From closed world discourse to digital utopianism: the changing face of responsible computing at Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1981–1992)</a>" (2020)<br><i><a href="https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509520237&subject_id=3" target="_blank">Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains</a></i> (2019)<br>"<a href="http://amodern.net/article/cryptological-origins-machine-translation/" target="_blank">The Cryptological Origins of Machine Translation, from al-Kindi to Weaver</a>" (2018)<br>"<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/c1hyzv4kct73wwk/DuPont2018_CryptographicMedia.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">Cryptographic Media</a>" (2018)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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