Caroline King
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Caroline King is a PhD Fellow at WiSER, focusing on unstable monetary systems in West Africa, looking at digital financial infrastructures in Ghana, more specifically mobile money systems and fraud in urban and rural Ghana.
She holds a BA in History and English from the University of Zurich, as well as an MA in African Studies from the University of Leipzig. She is currently completing a Writing Fellowship with the CERI at Sciences Po, Paris.
Her overall research interests include (digital) infrastructure and connectivity in West Africa as well as the importance of oral history and memory in research. Her ongoing work uses a qualitative data approach to reconstruct the perception and usability of digital financial systems in Ghana, vis-à-vis other forms of value, including cash and gold. In addition, the topic of fraud as a major destabilizer of financial technologies (FinTech) is discussed, in light of the linking of the national ID (Ghana Card) to the SIM by government intervention in Ghana.