As mentioned in the rash of events post last week, tonite we’ll be at at Hackerspace Charlotte (@hackerspaceclt) giving a presentation titled Minutes to Money: How Africa Hacked the Cellphone and Changed the Credit Card Industry.

This talk (15-20min) will discuss the trend of mobile money (transfer and technologies) and how culture, economics, and mobile disruptions make for a fertile ground for such innovations.

Hackerspace Charlotte is located at 430 E 36th St Charlotte, NC. Feel free to come through. Its a free event,. Though, if you can’t attend, you can view the slide deck.

To those looking for the connection to mobile ministry (#mobmin), its all about understanding the context of behaviors that leads to identifying opportunities in whatever space faith can be a participant in the discussion. For some of you, mobile money has meant simply how you can get your projects or ministries funded. You’ll need to think beyond that frame of thought and activity if you are going to take the activities identified in the mobile money space and make those a case of relevant faith transfers as well. Do add your questions or insights to the comments to this post if you have any.

Notes About Slides
If this is your first time (or its been a long time since) taking a look at slides done here at MMM, we use the S5 SlideShow system in order to create and share presentations. This HTML/CSS/JS format is versatile enough for any device and all that’s needed is a browser in order to view it. Unfortunately, this keeps us from sharing in avenues such as SlideShare, but other networks and methods are easily available since this is simply web and nothing else.

The QR codes are linked to URLs in this deck; and the resources such as Tomi Ahonen’s Pearls Vol. 3 and the Netsize Guide are very good and profitable resources for this type of talk.