Identity & Ownership – PositiveBlockchain.io

iden3

Ronald — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Reading Time: < 1 minutes IDEN3 is a new open source project which enables a new blockchain-based model and identity management platform with the objective to solve some of the problems and limitations current solutions have, by providing: decentralized architecture, privacy of the user data, scalability on public blockchain, usability improvements and openness.

AID:Tech

Maciej — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:07:32 +0000

Today, astronomical values are circulating throughout the public, private and third sector ecosystems. Yet, trillions of dollars are persistently unaccounted for. As a result, public trust in how funds are being spent is falling. The status quo becomes increasingly under threat; funding levels are unsustainable for the long-term future and stakeholders struggle to justify continuous support. It is those who are on the receiving end of these services that suffer the greatest impact. Inconsistent services and growing threats around what resources are available to them risk leaving the most vulnerable further disadvantaged.

We believe data, leveraged in a way that empowers both organisations and end-users, is the key to addressing these major challenges. Access to transparent and trusted data offers organisations the capability of transforming how services are delivered. Decision making becomes data-led. For end-users, they gain control over secured, personal data; the basis for greater agency in everyday transactions.

Utilising innovative technologies, including blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, AID:Tech has developed and deployed proven solutions for governments, corporates and NGOs. Blockchain becomes the key to securely and transparently capturing data. And, AID:Tech’s proprietary technology enables advances in the management and dissemination of data. In time, artificial intelligence and machine learning will play key roles in making data available in ways that benefit and empower organisations and users.

AID:Tech was the first company in the world to successfully deliver international aid to Syrian Refugees in Lebanon using Blockchain technology. Our products and services help clients and partners address some of the world’s largest social issues as well as targets set by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – signed on by over 190 countries. Our solutions offer an unprecedented level of insight into performance, transparency, and efficiency – generating rich datasets with which, governments, NGOs and charities can harness to improve how funds, products and assets are distributed and tracked.

AID:Tech CEO & Co-founder, Joseph Thompson, has been recognised as one of only ten global SDG Pioneers by the UN for his work in promoting Blockchain technology and its potential in global development.

EduCTX

blaz.podgorelec4792 — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:59:07 +0000

Reading Time: < 1 minutes EduCTX is a decentralized distributed blockchain platform. It connects the institutions and their members, making knowledge certificate management easier for everyone. For more details check: https://eductx.org/

Blockchain HELIX

info708 — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:59:03 +0000

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Creating Trust with Self-Sovereign Digital Identity for Individuals & Corporates. Driven by Blockchain. #helixid

Uport

Paul — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:00:00 +0000

uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort’s open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data. Take a look at what we’re building:

Protocols: uPort consists of identity and messaging protocols that together form an interoperable identity layer for the decentralized web.

Credentials: uPort is building a shared identity web of trust. Your app can request access to the set of credentials a user has collected from the network. Users can always choose what to share.

Products & Tools: Our modular open-source components, developer tools, and mobile clients help you connect with your users. We help make it simple to build on Ethereum.

Celo

Maciej — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:22:18 +0000

Celo is a proof-of-stake based blockchain with smart contracts. The technology uses a phone number-based identity system with address-based encryption and eigentrust-based reputation. Celo’s stablecoins are stable value currencies, implemented by an algorithmic reserve-backed stabilization mechanism. The first stablecoin, cUSD, is pegged to the US Dollar.

Build on Celo
Celo is a platform that is open and open-source, allowing for an ecosystem of powerful applications built on top, including easier cash transfer programs, peer-to-peer lending, collaborative small-scale insurance, and other digital assets and wallets.

Earn with Celo
Celo increases access by enabling anyone with even a simple Android smartphone to participate and earn Celo for decentralized verifications.

Mobile-First Platform
To create a truly inclusive financial system, we started by building an infrastructure to serve those excluded from the current system. Celo’s protocol includes unique features that create a seamless user experience on mobile phones.

Emerge

Lucas — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:55:45 +0000

Emerge builds decentralized systems to solve problems for enterprise and public sector while tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues, as defined by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Our end-to-end solutions are built on a blockchain-based foundational layer, seamlessly integrate complementary technologies like machine learning algorithms and IoT devices, and incorporate partner service providers to facilitate a coordinated approach to otherwise fragmented operations and systems. In connecting our stakeholders, we are also able to create live loops of relationship management, data insights, and feedback that affect the entirety of our clients’ ecosystems.

What we build and the way we build are as holistic as how we measure performance – with metrics along the interrelated dimensions of profit, people, and planet.

Bitland

Lucas — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:50:39 +0000

Bitland hopes to create a digital land registry that is universal, transparent, immutable, and bridges the gap between the government and undocumented areas. The company currently runs pilots in 28 communities in Kumasi, Ghana, and aims to expand across Africa to train people about blockchain technology, land rights, and corruption reduction in the land sector.

PB Notice: project seems inactive since a while with website “under construction”.

BanQu

Lucas — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:42:33 +0000

BanQu is a groundbreaking for-profit / for-purpose blockchain-as-a-service software company solving the toughest global problem – Extreme Poverty.

As the world’s first and only non-cryptocurrency blockchain platform—we help lift people out of extreme poverty by connecting them to the global supply chains they participate in and the brands, organizations, and governments that power them.

Through the implementation of BanQu’s cutting-edge blockchain platform, we provide benefits to the businesses, organizations, and governments that interact with the world’s poorest on a daily basis. Each of these interactions are captured through a secure, immutable, and distributed ledger of financial and personal records using blockchain technology—in turn building the Economic Identities necessary to connect the “unbanked / underbanked” to the global economy, thus helping to lift them out of poverty.

BanQu allows the unbanked to set up a personal digital identification profile while connecting them to the global supply chains they participate in (i.e. brands/ companies they work for, banked network including family, friends, small businesses, and associated NGOs). As they start accumulating a transaction history on the BanQu blockchain, the unbanked also develop a trackable, vetted financial and personal history. Our blockchain platform allows people to record a variety of transactions including business exchanges, remote purchases, funded wallets, term purchases, cash disbursements, property records, health records, education records, and credit histories among others. This Economic Identity provides a baseline for the unbanked to participate in the global economy. In return—BanQu’s platform provides benefits to the businesses, organizations, and governments that interact with these unbanked individuals on a daily basis.

Irisguard

sandeepbajjuri — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:41:14 +0000

IrisGuard is viewed as the world leader in biometric technology that pioneered iris recognition development and applications, particularly in homeland security, banking and finance. IrisGuard products & services revolves around iris recognition research and development, iris camera engineering, design and manufacturing of worldwide commercialization of iris end-to-end identity solutions.

In 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) has used IrisGuard’s private Ethereum blockchain technology to enable streamlined payment services for thousands of Syrian refugees seeking humanitarian aid, according to a report by ETH News.

IrisGuard’s EyePay system has already serviced over 10,000 refugees in Jordan using iris recognition technology (IRT), which allows for food purchases to be settled on the blockchain.

The blockchain’s robust encryption system ensures that all transactions are secured and are executed without using a card, pin, username, password, ID, or mobile device.

As a result, the platform is ideal for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and aid organizations, as the IRT eliminates any logistical and monetary barriers related to integrating card and smartphone issuance for every refugee.

The system also removes the possibility of fraudulent transactions and embezzlement of funds.

“The UNHCR has achieved financial inclusion for unbanked refugees and enabled them to efficiently receive international donor cash assistance directly on unattended bank ATM’s and food at checkout counters in supermarkets and nonfood items in camps; all while refugees are either unable or not allowed to open a bank account by law,” IrisGuard said in a statement.

Over the past few years, several aid programs have been investigated by governments who have focused on providing humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees.

The United States Government Accountability Office (GOA) released a report last year that stated that US agencies could improve on fraud oversight.

IrisGuard solutions could potentially help to combat issues of fraud and banking the unbanked.