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qi card article draft

qi cards

  • Angle: gig economy neoliberalization, financialization on these terms

Start with a woman that goes and withdrawals (aya?), then move on to talking about how the qi card has become at the forefront of Iraq’s digital transformation

Talk about Iraqi smart card company, run by x, y, z, iraq is cash only economy with parallel currency, recent law that was passed that forces companies to accept dinars and not dollars, although this simply serves to move it to the black market. Ever since earlier this year the black market rate has moved without the

Legacy of 2003, rump state, sectarian violence for pensioners

Reforms in 2014/2015 with abadi

  • a bank card, although most people just withdrawals all their money from it, possibly because they compare it with lebanon
    • quote about lebanon here

How do people feel about the qi card? They think it’s much more convienant, but at a cost

  • teachers
  • martyr benefits
  • pensioners

Why does this matter? Because in the wake of a rump state particular community based networks developed in order to pay: principles would go get money from the ministries, people need to queue up

Qi card breaks this by changing the social layer, qi card quote here

Qi card’s corruption issues, declaration, biometric data, how ministry of justice and ministry of finance adopt it

  • hashd

Visiting the headquarters feels very strange, talk about how it’s very sleek and pretty

Very similar to the uber model of gig workers, the minfeds themselves must front the cash. Hilla experience, qi card has managed to grow with a homegrown network, although this is very strange, follows similar effects worldwide, similarly to india

Psuedo state role, qi card has become a state within a state, really an example of destruction of state institutions causing aggomlerations, private sector innovation, also private company has made it difficult for the people to respond to, a homegrown company

  • quote about how teachers used to be furious at even 250 dinars missing from their paycheck

  • maybe a section on how money is related? hawala and cash economy