Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

Year
2023

6 results

  1. Interledger Ambassador Santosh Viswanatham

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Santosh Viswanatham

    To build around web monetization projects, particularly the Web monetization provider browser add-on, and make it available as soon as possible for engineers and organisations to test and develop projects related to Web monetization. This extension will not only benefit me but also many others by promoting financial inclusivity through web monetization. The extension will be compatible with the new Web monetization spec and will be updated accordingly as the spec evolves.

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  2. Interledger Ambassador: Peter-Paul Koch

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Peter-Paul Koch

    Grantee Peter-Paul Koch Webontwikkeling Will Serve As An Interledger Foundation Ambassador, Continuing Outreach Efforts Initiated In 2021 To Engage Web Developers And Browser Vendors In The Adoption Of Web Monetization Technology. The Project Recognizes Web Developers As Key Early Adopters Who Can Promote Web Monetization Solutions To Website Owners And Clients, Thereby Expanding The Ecosystem Of Alternative Revenue Models For Digital Content Creators. This Initiative Supports The Foundation's Mission To Advance Open, Accessible, And Equitable Payment Solutions For The Internet.

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    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Subhashish Panigrahi

    Bringing Down A Hill: is a documentary short centered around the idea that "financial inclusion is a right, not a privilege, and that financial systems should work for everyone, everywhere". The film would reimagine with communities how they would want to make digital payment systems work for them and move exclusionary barriers, while critiquing India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI). UPI amounts to 52% of India’s digital transactions and has helped many first-generation mobile users transact conveniently. But, it also excludes a large number of people due to linguistic, literacy, tech fluency, frauds and many other barriers.

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  4. Sikhula Sonke - Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Zambia
    Project lead: Esther Mwema

    The audio-visual art exhibition will build an imagery that shifts mindsets about wealth and how it is defined. Sikhula Sonke is an isiXhosa phrase which means ‘we grow together.’ The living archives will present stories of elders from Southern Africa whose knowledge can inform Afro-futurist financial systems that are not centered on Capitalism. The mixed media visual artwork will depict alternative systems based on archival research on the same topic so that the Afrocentric storytelling will serve as a continuation of archives, hence becoming living archives shaping an Afro-futurist imagining of financial systems based on village banking.

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  5. The Waterworks of Money

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Carlijn Kingma

    Digital Media/animation. They are mapping three future scenarios in which new forms of digital money, payment systems, and systemic change play a pivotal role. By making the world of money more understandable for people without a financial or economic background we have noticed discussions on the design of our monetary system become more accessible. With our maps and the metaphor of water, suddenly people who were never interested in the topic join the discussion about other payments structures, CBDC and restructuring our capital markets.

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  6. Interledger Ambassador: Jeremiah Lee

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    52 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Sweden
    Project lead: Jeremiah Lee

    Advocate for the integration of Interledger payment pointers into Mastodon and other fediverse projects through design and code contributions, including implementing metadata on Activity Streams posts and exposing it within servers and clients. Additionally, support the adoption of Web Monetization among content creators and fediverse users, while assisting the Interledger Foundation with its own fediverse presence.

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