Blockchain pilot to test decentralised solutions for crisis response [pdf]

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20 pointsdeproders3 comments

One of the dirty secrets of crisis response is that authority is already delegated by donors to NGOs, by giving them money. No blockchains or software required.

The funding campaigns which happen in the hours after an event happens do not raise funds for the response effort; they merely piggyback on it for marketing effect.

Consensys is constantly implementing lots of useless solutions for attention grabbing subjects to try to drive the price up on the cryptocurrency they hold a lot of. Almost all of their ideas do not actually work in the real world.

I'd guess they've found a great match: never have I seen a community so prone to irrational hypes around random new technologies as the international development and humanitarian aid communities.

The whole blockchain narrative will be a feast for them, probably with the end result that some overworked local medical workers will now have to deal with semi-broken blockchain apps to buy fresh toilet paper.

Many lives will be improved (in Brooklyn, NY).

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