CSE590F: Computing and the Developing World Seminar

This quarter we will be reading a selection of ICTD papers with emphasis on Financial Services for the Poor.

The seminar meets Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 in CSE 203.

Schedule

WeekDateDiscussion LeadersPaper
1October 6 --- ---
2October 13 Trevor Privacy and Security Concerns Associated with Mobile Money Applications in Africa. (PDF)
3October 20 Aditya The Paper Slip Should be There!” Perceptions of Transaction Receipts in Branchless Banking (PDF)  
4October 27 AJ Designing mobile money services: Lessons from M-PESA. Innovations, 4(2):77-19, 2009. (PDF)
5November 3 Niall Promises and Pitfalls of Mobile Money in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial PDF)
6November 10 Sam Stragglers of the herd get eaten: security concerns for GSM mobile banking applications. Michael Paik. (PDF)
7November 17 Fahad The Mobile Phone as a Link to Formal Financial Services: Findings from Uganda. Ishita Ghosh. (PDF)
8November 24 Colin Practical Receipt Authentication for Branchless Banking PDF)
9December 1 Camille Joint /w Security Mo(bile) Money, Mo(bile) Problems (PDF)
10December 8 Waylon ---

Candidate Papers (New papers added, 10/25)

Abstracts

  1. A. Harris, S. Goodman, and P. Traynor. Privacy and Security Concerns Associated with Mobile Money Applications in Africa. Washington Journal of Law, Tech. & Arts, 2013. (PDF)
  2. I. Mas and O. Morawczynski. Designing mobile money services: Lessons from M-PESA. Innovations, 4(2):77-19, 2009. (PDF)
  3. Mo(bile) Money, Mo(bile) Problems: Analysis of Branchless Banking Applications in the Developing World Bradley Reaves, Nolen Scaife, Adam Bates, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin R.B. Butler, University of Florida Usenix, 2015 (PDF)
  4. Promises and Pitfalls of Mobile Money in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial Josh Blumenstock et al., ICTD 2015 (PDF)
  5. Michael Paik. 2010. Stragglers of the herd get eaten: security concerns for GSM mobile banking applications. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (HotMobile '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 54-59. (PDF)
  6. Usably Secure, Low-Cost Authentication for Mobile Banking Saurabh Panjwani, Edward Cutrell SOUPS 2010 (PDF)
  7. Towards End-to-End Security in Branchless Banking Saurabh Panjwani Hot Mobile 2011 (PDF)
  8. The Paper Slip Should be There!” Perceptions of Transaction Receipts in Branchless Banking Saurabh Panjwani Mohona Ghosh, Ponnurangam K, Soumya Vardhan Singh Mobile HCI 2013 (PDF)
  9. Practical Receipt Authentication for Branchless Banking Saurabh Panjwani, Dev 2013 (PDF)
  10. M-PESA: Mobile MOney for the "Unbanked" Turning Cellphones into 24-Hour Tellers in Kenya, Nick Hughes and Susie Lonie, Innovations, Winter & Spring 2007. (PDF)
  11. The Mobile Phone as a Link to Formal Financial Services: Findings from Uganda, Ishita Ghosh, ICTD 2012, (PDF)