Reading Time: < 1 minutes PositiveBlockchain: by the people, for the people! At the heart of our association, a group of volunteer contributors “Positivists” -as we call ourselves-. We are happy to keep welcoming new members recently, many new faces in 2022 already! You can join them too, see how here. Jessica Salama working with Gooddollar. From Bolivia and […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Mozamel Aman is an afghan social entrepreneur based in Berlin with a passion for Tech, Entrepreneurship and Education. He is the Founder of Startupistan a tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem initiative in Afghanistan. Last year, we organized blockchain 101 training with his community. We wanted to give him a voice regarding the local situation in Afghanistan […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minutes (Read the report here) Blockchain & the SDGs: How Decentralisation Can Make a Difference Blockchain’s use beyond speculative finance is emerging and maturing. In a collaboration with dGen, we analyse this potential for social good, guided by the UN’s SDGs. Twenty-five external experts lend their insights into current and potential applications, from diverse organizations such as: […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minutes (Event registration link here) we are happy to invite you to join this exclusive launch webinar of the report “Blockchain for the SDGs” prepared by dGen and PositiveBlockchain. Hundreds of tech entrepreneurs, startups, impact specialists, members of public or social organizations have experimented in recent years with the use of decentralisation and blockchain technology as potential […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minutes (Event registration link here) Communities are mobilizing across the African continent to explore positive use cases of blockchain technologies. Join the movement! During this online round-table, organization can introduce themselves, their initiatives and share ideas of synergies to strengthen initiatives across the continue. Some of the active organizations include: Blockchain Africa Alliance, Nigeria/SA + across […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Our partners at Celo have just launched the 3rd batch of Celo Camp blockchain accelerator! They have designed an 8-weeks online camp which includes mentors from top-tier organizations, prizes of over $30,000 cUSD, a fast track for Celo grants, and custom guidance and support to help founders scale their ventures. As Celo mission is to […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Strong female founders It’s hard to overlook the fact that female founders are strongly represented in the impact-focused industries. This might be a reflection of the educational background, leading to a focus on economics, the humanities, natural sciences, as well as creative subjects. However, the vast majority of tech startups are still founded by men […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes PositiveBlockchain is an open database listing 1000 blockchain projects for positive impact. But not only, we are also a community of volunteers exploring the potential of blockchain technologies for the embetterment of the world. We support the ecosystem in their quest of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals. The near future In 2021 we are aiming […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes A year after featuring the pilot results in our Community Currency report, we now talk to Sandra Uwantege-Hart, who leads the UnBlocked Cash project, which is now a live blockchain use case reaching 35,000 people in 2020 and scaling across the Pacific region and beyond. The project developed by Oxfam together with Australian Fintech Sempo […]
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