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.

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.

A year after its groundbreaking pilot, Oxfam in Vanuatu, together with 17 local and international partners, is scaling its blockchain-based UnBlocked Cash project to distribute cash and voucher assistance to over 35,000 beneficiaries affected by the Category 5 Cyclone Harold and COVID-19.

UnBlocked Cash is now serving as a single payment platform to unite partners in the harmonized delivery of cash assistance, enhancing coordination, collective capacity, and ensuring more value for each donor dollar by boosting the local economy. Oxfam is deploying this solution in Papua New Guinea later this year and in the Solomon Islands in 2021, with the Pacific region leading other pilot locations across Oxfam’s global confederation.

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project, powered by Australian fintech Sempo, is set to tackle the growing humanitarian demands by saving costs of distributing aid by up to 75%, reducing delivery times by over 90%, and bringing more transparency and accountability in the process.

All of this is possible thanks to a blend of humanitarian assistance, digital financial inclusion, and locally-led blockchain innovation. The UnBlocked Cash solution consists of the e-voucher “tap-and-pay” cards used by beneficiaries, a smartphone app through which vendors receive the payments, and an online platform where NGOs like Oxfam can monitor transactions remotely and in real-time.

The innovative use of digital currency, in this case, a digitized version of the local currency in the form of a collateralized blockchain token, has introduced the concept of digital financial inclusion and access to Vanuatu, where the majority of the population are unable to access ‘brick and mortar’ banking services. In other iterations of the initiative, the use of stable digital currencies (stablecoins) as a “borderless” digital store of value has also introduced the potential for the institutional donors to fund, and track funds across multi-country programs, with just a single contribution and access to a central analytics dashboard. The platform also has the potential to flexibly integrate direct cash distribution and individual donations, allowing for a more transparent, direct, and participatory model for humanitarian assistance globally.

Earlier this year, Oxfam won a €1M prize from the European Commission to support the development of this humanitarian innovation beyond the Pacific region.

Vanuatu Pilot 2019

“During the UnBlocked Cash pilot, Oxfam in partnership with Sempo and ConsenSys distributed 966,443 Vanuatu Vatu (VUV) or
11,896.91 Australian Dollars (AUD) to 187 heads of households and 29 vendors, which was estimated to have directly benefited some 1,209 individuals in two urban communities in one of the world’s most at-risk countries.

Over the course of a month, Oxfam and its partners were able to successfully deliver a first-of-its-kind Distributed Ledger
Technology (DLT) based solution employing the Dai (DAI) stablecoin. Additionally, the system piloted in Vanuatu saw the successful deployment of a novel near-field communication (NFC) card, which in tandem with a ‘side-channel’ developed by Sempo, allowed the system to cope with poor internet connectivity while ensuring double-spends were impossible despite offline transactions.

Oxfam set out to determine whether DLTs can reduce the cost and transaction time of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), while improving transparency, security, and overall user experience (UX) within the urban context of Port Vila, Republic of Vanuatu.

With the support of Sempo, the UnBlocked Cash pilot has shown modest cost-savings and significant time-savings related to
operational activities. Onboarding recipients to the platform was reduced to an average of 3.6 minutes per individual compared to over an hour during the Ambae volcano response in 2018. Additionally, the tested system eliminated slow identity (ID) verifications and reduced dependency on post offices or banks to deposit cheques.

The quality of the tested solution, which encompassed transparency, security, and user experience indicators, was found to be
extremely high. Recipient and vendor feedback alike indicates an overwhelming preference for assistance of this type.

UNOPS and IOTA collaborate to bring transparency and efficiency to UN work

The term “cash transfer programming” describes all the various mechanisms of cash transfers, including cash-for-work and vouchers, used to implement programs. While cash transfer is a methodology used to achieve program goals – not a program aim itself – the term “cash transfer programming” has been widely adopted as the overall description for any use of these mechanisms in field programs.

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, social innovators have striven to leverage cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies to develop faster, cheaper remittances, new solutions in micro-finance, and a whole host of CTP solutions. However, there is little unity across the social sector to scale these solutions in real experiments and best determine which can affect the most positive change.

The Bifröst Initiative, initially developed by ConsenSys Social Impact, MakerDao, and Dether, is a nonprofit consortium of blockchain companies and NGOs seeking to affect positive change in the evolution of cash transfer programming by using cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The initiative works across blockchain ecosystems and is always open to partnership and grant inquiries.

Everyone can study the subject of their choice and receive a basic income that allows them to study in peace. Men and women have learned to communicate in a non-violent way and they are lucid about their needs. Technology is at the service of the weak, play and joy fill the streets of the cities.

To participate in the development of this society, associations with a vision and a project need a strong and fair currency. This is why Ventureo promotes cooperation between organizations, multiplies the strengths of everyone by providing a platform that provides visibility, services, advice and means of action.

Joining the Ventureo network will bring you new and more effective tools to fulfill your missions and will put you in contact with other organizations whose work is complementary to yours so that everyone can help each other and overcome the difficulties faced by the poorest.

If you are an entreprener or a non profit you can get 100,000 Ventureo to develop your project. It is an unconditional basic income for organizations.

TruBudget is a software that uses a distributed ledger to give donors and governments access to records of budgetary spending on schools and hospitals from the point of disbursement to subsequent transactions, such as procurement, contracting and implementation of a given project.

Pinkcoin’s new platform is revolutionizing the process of being charitable. Not only does our unique software allow you to earn interest simply by running a wallet, but it also allows you to automatically donate any portion of this interest to any charity at zero cost to you.
Several celebrities and charities are already onboard and more are being pursued. Join our movement and help spread the word about the future of being charitable. Finally, you can make a difference. $PINK is available for purchase on Bittrex and Poloniex.

A New Initiative
Pinkcoin is a unique digital currency inspired by the pursuit of philanthropy and pareto-optimal game theory. Pinkcoin offers a secure and trustless network to disrupt the non-transparent charity model. On our network, help yourself by helping others; earn money while holding Pinkcoin and simultaneously be a champion of charity. Our newly upgraded Pinkcoin blockchain is a hybrid model incentivizing users to secure the network by either mining via traditional Proof-of-Work (PoW) or by participating in an innovative and gamified Proof-of-Stake (PoS) design. Flash-stake (FPoS) and side-stake blockchain technologies encourage PINK holders to earn stake rewards while concurrently sharing their wealth. Users are further motivated to stake and share due to Donate 4 Life (D4L), a system designed to reward participants for helping others.

Blockchain Established Altruism
Pinkcoin’s exclusive D4L blockchain pool system is powered by our revolutionary side-staking capabilities. See donations in real time on the blockchain instantly go to a charitable partner, educational campaign, or technology development. Watch as your tips and those of others stake continuously, providing revenue to any fund of choice. As a bonus, individuals of the entire staking community are eligible to receive additional automated payouts as a secondary reward layer. Donate4Life is comprised of nine pool systems, each with its own unique and optimized function. There are two subsets within D4L, those being the “Directive,” and the “Rain Forest.” The Directive system is comprised of six divisions that directly impact Pinkcoin’s development as well as its charitable outreach. These include Charity, Education, Disaster Relief, Development, Marketing and Random pools. The Rain Forest system is comprised of three divisions that directly impact the users of Pinkcoin, the community. These include the Rain Cloud, Elder Tree and Acorns.