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The Silicon Valley Approach to Poverty: Humanitarian Designers at Work in Financial Inclusion.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Silicon Valley Approach to Poverty: Humanitarian Designers at Work in Financial Inclusion./
Author:	Greger, Jeffrey .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	188 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-02.
Subject:	Design. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13899112
ISBN:	9781085666275

The Silicon Valley Approach to Poverty: Humanitarian Designers at Work in Financial Inclusion.
Greger, Jeffrey .

The Silicon Valley Approach to Poverty: Humanitarian Designers at Work in Financial Inclusion. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 188 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Jose State University, 2019.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This thesis explores the application of ethnographic research and commercially-derived design approaches in support of financial inclusion, a global movement to bring affordable financial services to low-income and rural communities that have traditionally lacked access to these services. I collaborated with and interviewed designers and anthropologists working on financial inclusion projects that range from small, grassroots efforts to create payday loan alternatives in Silicon Valley and London, to more formal international development projects funded by large corporations and philanthropic organizations. Participants in this study shared a strong belief: ethnographic perspectives and design practices that incorporate marginalized voices into the decision-making process can lead to innovative, sustainable, and locally-relevant interventions that improve the lives of people experiencing poverty. However, this study's participants also wrestled with the knowledge that well-intentioned humanitarian projects often fail to achieve their goals, at times further retrenching social and economic inequalities. These participants needed to weigh the risks of proposing hubristic solutions against inaction in the face of injustice. This thesis highlights the ongoing conversations among designers and anthropologists on how they can-and should-ethically work to achieve social change.

ISBN: 9781085666275Subjects--Topical Terms:

518875
Design.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Design for development

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