Matthew Davie's guest appearances

Matthew Davie

Yogipreneur Radio with Racheal Cook

Two Think Minimum

Money Reimagined

Amy Davine Kim

Eric Goldman

Doug Smith

Edward Snowden

Michael Katz

Glen Weyl

Dimitri Sirota

Rob Pegoraro

Pat Toomey

Diane Coyle

Bruce Mehlman

Balaji Srinivasan

Felipe Hoffa

Catherine Tucker

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

OwlTail

Alpen Sheth

Join Michael Casey and Sheila Warren as they speak with Matthew Davie the Chief Strategy Officer of Kiva and Alpen Sheth Senior Technologist of Blockchain at Mercy Corps. It's Finally 2021, the year we all were promised. Even though the calendar has turned, the world is still on a wild ride. So today we go back to the fundamentals.They call it the charitable-industrial complex: a system where money for development, for humanitarian needs, and for improving the lives of billions is controlled through a top-down process, run by U.S. charities and shaped by U.S. tax rules and regulations.The first Money Reimagined podcast episode of 2021 dives into the problems this creates. Can we get away from this top-down, centralized system to build a bottom-up model that empowers the people charities are trying to help? And will the decentralizing power of crypto and blockchain technology play a meaningful role?In this episode we dig into the "why" of this empowering new technology. What's the point? And more importantly, who is it for?“Reimagining money isn’t about money at all but more about the complexity of the systems surrounding it. [...]The exciting part about Crypto is that it has the potential to be a partial fix for the problems of exclusion plaguing our financial system” said Sheila Warren.According to Matthew Davie, “There is a gap between the informal sector and the formal sector, and you can’t build a bridge without figuring out how to solve that problem. So, we came at this from the system side saying we need verifiable identity and how do we do that?” “What we find is that the unbanked are just too broad of a category to comprehend so it has to be broken down. There [are] substantial gender inequalit[ies]. Whether its device ownership, around participation in the economy, around disasters... People are just stuck underneath layers and layers of intermediaries to just do basic activities” said Alpen ShethAbout our guests:Matthew Davie @KIVA focuses on long term strategic initiatives to help drive systemic financial inclusion for the world’s most venerable populations. He oversees corporate strategy, emerging technology development, and policy and regulatory engagements.Alpen Sheth, PhD, is Senior Technologist, Blockchain, at Mercy Corps. a blockchain advisor for companies in the insurance, identity, and energy sectors. Previously, he co-founded the Economic Space Agency, a blockchain R&amp;D startup, and later became the Head of Product at etherisc.com, an insurtech company, creating smart-contract based applications in several different countries See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join <a href="https://twitter.com/mikejcasey" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Casey</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/sheila_warren" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Sheila Warren</a> as they speak with Matthew Davie the Chief Strategy Officer of Kiva and <a href="https://twitter.com/AlpenSheth" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Alpen Sheth</a> Senior Technologist of Blockchain at Mercy Corps. It's Finally 2021, the year we all were promised. Even though the calendar has turned, the world is still on a wild ride. So today we go back to the fundamentals.They call it the charitable-industrial complex: a system where money for development, for humanitarian needs, and for improving the lives of billions is controlled through a top-down process, run by U.S. charities and shaped by U.S. tax rules and regulations.The first Money Reimagined podcast episode of 2021 dives into the problems this creates. Can we get away from this top-down, centralized system to build a bottom-up model that empowers the people charities are trying to help? And will the decentralizing power of crypto and blockchain technology play a meaningful role?In this episode we dig into the "why" of this empowering new technology. What's the point? And more importantly, who is it for?“Reimagining money isn’t about money at all but more about the complexity of the systems surrounding it. [...]The exciting part about Crypto is that it has the potential to be a partial fix for the problems of exclusion plaguing our financial system” said Sheila Warren.According to Matthew Davie, “There is a gap between the informal sector and the formal sector, and you can’t build a bridge without figuring out how to solve that problem. So, we came at this from the system side saying we need verifiable identity and how do we do that?” “What we find is that the unbanked are just too broad of a category to comprehend so it has to be broken down. There [are] substantial gender inequalit[ies]. Whether its device ownership, around participation in the economy, around disasters... People are just stuck underneath layers and layers of intermediaries to just do basic activities” said Alpen ShethAbout our guests:Matthew Davie <a href="https://twitter.com/kiva" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@KIVA</a> focuses on long term strategic initiatives to help drive systemic financial inclusion for the world’s most venerable populations. He oversees corporate strategy, emerging technology development, and policy and regulatory engagements.Alpen Sheth, PhD, is Senior Technologist, Blockchain, at <a href="https://twitter.com/mercycorps" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Mercy Corps</a>. a blockchain advisor for companies in the insurance, identity, and energy sectors. Previously, he co-founded the Economic Space Agency, a blockchain R&amp;D startup, and later became the Head of Product at <a href="http://etherisc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">etherisc.com</a>, an insurtech company, creating smart-contract based applications in several different countries See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Charity's Centralization Problem, Feat. Matthew Davie and Alpen Sheth

Christian Catalini

Dante Disparte

Christian Catalini is Chief Economist of the Libra Association, on leave from MIT, and a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER. Dante Disparte is vice chairman and Head of Policy and Communications at the Libra Association, and currently serves as an appointee on the FEMA National Advisory Counsel. Matthew Davie is the Chief Strategy Officer at Kiva, a non-profit organization dedicated to financial inclusion for the world's most vulnerable populations, where he oversees corporate strategy, emerging tech development, and policy and regulatory engagements. He is also a board member of the Libra Association.

Digital Payments, Crypto, and Libra with Christian Catalini, Dante Disparte, and Matthew Davie