Mashbean is researching robust digital identity in Taiwan, with a focus on resillience and decentralized infrastructure.

Digital Identity Infrastructure

Teodor Petricevic leads blockchain initiatives at the UN Development Programme, mapping Ethereum-based projects within the UN ecosystem and developing an impact management framework.

Blockchain Impact Framework for UN Development

Sharfy Adamantine enables environmental stewardship by connecting climate finance directly to local conservation efforts and data at Gainforest, improving compatibility and functionality of the Hypercerts standard.

Climate Finance for Local Conservation

Robert Cowlishaw is an aerospace engineer researching zero-knowledge proofs, trusted execution, and satellite imagery for automatic and verifiable emergency response systems.

ZK-Proofs for Emergency Response Systems

MUQA - Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative

Municipal Quadratic Funding

Commitment pooling, local currency, and indigenous mutual aid practices.

Commitment pooling and community currencies

Mercedes' research focuses on understanding the impact of crypto in Venezuela through the lenses of human experiences and how this can help us creare Web3 solutions to strengthen civil organizations in Venezuela

Activism, Human Rights and Web3 in Venezuela

Lefteris is focused on reducing marine plastic pollution by engaging with fishers in Greece and the Mediterranean and adopting cleaning and sustainability practices.

Fishing for the Commons

Reclaiming space for thought in our attention economy through decentralized publishing and creation networks.

A Quieter Internet

Eddie's Antugrow platform digitizes farmer production records and farm metadata to create reputation scores on-chain, with a goal to access to affordable working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives in Kenya

On-chain credit scores for smallholder farmers and co-ops in Kenya

David is documenting the nuts and bolts of running a node in Nigeria and, more generally, on the African continent and all the challenges that come with it.

Operating a node in Africa

Studying and documenting grassroots adoption of blockchain and other decentralized applications within the Ukrainian community

Volya - Web3 through the People's Lens

Mulenga is developing a tokenized artifact registry and experimenting with museum revenue sharing for community documentation of art, customs, and crafting practices.

Digital repatriation of art and revenue sharing

Ongaeshi is exploring retroactive solidarity payments in education and employment.

Retroactive solidarity payments in education and employment

Devansh is exploring retroactive funding for citizen journalists using the hypercerts standard.

Retroactive Impact funding for Journalists

Brian investigated the needs of web3 workers through Copra Finance, a startup that designs web3 financial products for working folks in Jakarta, Indonesia

Fair Lending for Web3 workers

The scouting movement is decentralised by nature and community-driven by essence. They are working on a Scout's passport on chain, onboarding youth all over the world.

Scouting for the Future

Empowering disenfranchised communities in Latin America using Ethereum

LatAm Empowerment

Beyond Borders - Unveiling Potential of Blockchain in a Crisis - the case of Syria

Peer to peer aid in Humanitarian Crises

Bloinx is a project that focuses on 'tandas' in Mexico. In 2022, Gabriela conducted user research with several women's saving circles, and ran a pilot of Bloinx deployed on the polygon and celo side-chains.

Small Business Savings Circles

Farmer Finance

Naroa explores Ethereum-based solutions as part of Giga's effort to connect every school to the internet.

Internet for every school

How should the world's largest NGO approach decentralized technology?

Re-decentralizing with BRAC

Chuy explores government-issued documents on chain in Argentina and other LatAm countries.

Identity Solutions for Govtech

Microinsurance products for small-scale farmers in Kenya in extreme weather events

Microinsurance for Every Farmer

Benson Njuguna

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Microinsurance for Every Farmer

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Blockchain Impact Framework for UN Development