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Grants are designed to support local community groups and individual leaders running initiatives that work to expand digital financial access from the inside out. If you understand your community’s barriers firsthand, this program is built for you. We want to work with individuals and organisations who can bring local communities together around open payments and digital financial access, create space for learning, discussion, and hands-on experimentation, and share what they find with the broader Interledger community.
Projects serving communities in the Global South [sic].
N.B. The Global South/Global North/developing countries terms are inaccurate and misleading. First, they are descriptively inaccurate, even when they refer to general notions such as (economic) development. Second, they are homogenizing, obscuring important differences between countries supposedly part of the Global South and North groups. In this respect, these terms are no better than alternatives that they are trying to replace, such as ‘the West‘ or the ‘Third World‘. Third, the Global South/Global North terms imply a geographic determinism that is wrong and demotivational. Poor countries are not doomed to be poor, because they happen to be in the South, and their geographic position is not a verdict on their developmental prospects. The correct terms are low or medium-income countries.
