The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, is soliciting proposals for original research on the use of money of all kinds as a means of saving, storing, and transferring value among the world’s poorest people.

By money, we include both traditional nationally-issued money and technologically-mediated instruments and systems, as well as systems based on personal relationships and social networks. Examples of the range of media we are including under the rubric of money are: livestock, land, gifts of labor, jewelry and other valuables, cash, coin, checks, cards, mobile phones or other electronic devices, and rotating savings and credit associations or similar arrangements.

More information can be found HERE

Deadline for submission: January 15, 2009. Decisions will be announced by March 15, 2009.