How Digital Public Goods Are Bringing the $10 Trillion Informal Economy Into the Digital Payments Loop
Talkat Open Source in Finance Forum New York 2022 · on Thursday, 2022-12-08· at 11:55· HUB 1, New York, NY, USA·
summary
Open source payment plumbing Mojaloop brings interoperable instant payments to 1.4 billion unbanked people and a $10 trillion informal economy by knitting eight DPG projects into GDP Connect for government-to-person payouts; a World Bank demo succeeds and live deployments run in Tanzania (62 banks, merchants working) and a funded Rwanda rollout ($8.5M). Tech stack uses Docker, Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, innerLedger and AWS/Azure with a one‑hour mini-loop proof‑of‑concept; community counts ~1,400 contributors across 47 countries.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Digital public goods
- 3:14Why digital public goods matter for governments
- 6:49DPGs vs open source
- 9:37DPG ecosystem challenges
- 13:51Open source in emerging markets
- 15:37GDP Connect case study
- 20:36Mojaloop’s financial inclusion
- 24:32Cloud and open source benefits
- 27:03Mojaloop community impact
- 31:40Q&A
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