- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:32:48 -0400
- To: Web Payments IG <public-webpayments-ig@w3.org>
The Gates Foundation has just announced their LevelOne project, which is an attempt to extend financial services to the world's unbanked and underbanked: https://leveloneproject.org/ If you only have 5 minutes, here's a video summarizing the project: https://leveloneproject.org/videos/overview/ A few weeks ago, I was invited out to the Gates Foundation to participate in the work that led to this announcement. There is a very large amount of overlap with the work we're doing here and the work that the Gates Foundation needs to have happen to achieve the mission they've outlined for the LevelOne project. There are use cases that we should integrate into our use cases document: https://leveloneproject.org/the-guide/user-requirements-behind-the-level-one-project-guide/ There is also a great deal of "lessons learned" that should deeply impact our thinking wrt. the design of the Payment Architecture: https://leveloneproject.org/the-guide/payment-systems-lessons-learned-and-highlights/ Finally, they've released a Digital Financial Services guide that outlines the key components that they believe will lead to successful deployments of digital payment systems. https://leveloneproject.org/the-guide/guide-for-digital-payments-system/ This work, and the US Fed Faster Payments work, are two very important guides that should impact the technical direction of the work at W3C. I learned a great deal more during my time at the Gates Foundation and hope to share with the group during our call next week now that the embargo has been lifted. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/
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