 Hello to everyone in this room. I'll call your attention to the front, and I will have you stop talking for a moment, and then I'll get you all talking again before I go back. Hello, good morning, welcome. This is Blockchain at the Edge, day two. My name's Hadassah Damian, I'm a facilitator with Consensus. We will talk at you for as short a time as possible so that you can talk to each other. What we started with yesterday was a two and a half hour session where we had about 50, 60 people through the room, thinking through some specific ideas, use cases, and information around instances where we might use blockchain for social impact, or, as like American scholar Bell Hook says, moving the margin to the center. So thinking about instances of where we're going to use blockchain that might be for people who experience marginalization, but actually making at the center the focus of what we're doing, as opposed to an edge. So what we're going to do real quick is we are going to orient you all to where we left off yesterday. We're going to break into groups by interest area so you can keep sharing with each other. We will also have a other new interest area, if anything that we were working on doesn't interest you. We're going to have a little time for thinking, ideation, things like that. And then we're going to share back as a group. And the goal of what we're doing over the week is to build on each other's thinking and grow our learning. So I will invite somebody who was in this group to talk about where are the ideas around finance and financial autonomy landed yesterday. OK, what we did yesterday is, so I'm Tessie Merain. I'm also a consensus and I'm also the provident blockchain. Anyways, so in this area, we talked about financial issues and how we can resolve them and what they might be. And so we ended up zooming in on the two main issues that came up. One being access, not having financial access. For example, let's say in Kenya, somebody was here who was talking about a project helping people by creating circular economies. So that would be creating access for people who otherwise wouldn't have access by providing basically a tokenization of assets and then making them liquid, right? Being able to exchange them by having a token and that way you could exchange them. And that token wouldn't come from, wouldn't have to be paid for. So therefore, it's creating a value chain that didn't exist before versus another issue in the financial category being, for example, countries in financial crisis where the money is devalued. So what you have is going away. And also countries under sanctions, right? You earn your money and somehow you have no control over it. So that ended up being the main topics were being about ownership and access, right? And so one of the learnings was that in some ways the proposed solution to create liquidity, it was kind of like everybody becomes their own little central bank could be, when it's scared, be the old system, right? And this would actually be exactly what we're trying to find alternatives for. While, on the other hand, creating a system like, let's say, for example, Bitcoin to be able to maintain control over your finances could also prevent access. So this is where we landed at the very end, that we had these two topics around finance and that potentially the solution for one part of the problem could recreate the old system and the solution for the other part of the problem could maintain the original problem. And so we haven't gotten further than that. But we also came up with a couple of ideas that have to be requirements and there were features like being permissionless, being tamper-proof, being trustless, being accessible, being global, and building an ecosystem and providing interoperability. So anybody who is interested in this area later should join on this side. And we'll go back to... All right, thank you Tessie. All right, so for folks who are just joining us, welcome, welcome. We're orienting to where we left off with our problems and ideas yesterday and we're gonna get you into working groups in a few minutes. But first, I'm gonna hand you over to Elix, who will talk a little bit about another problem area we were working on. Hi, I'm Elix Keller. So yesterday, same as Tessie was saying, that very small problem we were trying to solve for with the idea, lack of ideas, decentralized ideas in general. Got a small problem. Very, very hard to start a solution against that, but the synthesizer down into a couple of areas. And they are undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, need protected, verifiable, transferable identification because of access to social services, formal work, and protection, our contingent on an ID. So that was the problem statement we came up with. And the second one we came up with was communities without the ability to own IDs. So this is children, elders, since they're ill, sick, need the ability to determine who is responsible for and able to act on behalf of them and their ID because these peoples are the most vulnerable. So again, vulnerable communities that need to be centered and less on the edge. So we got this topical, like we've ripped it on this topic. There's other issues here. Again, if you're kind of an ID person, personally I'm more of like a track and trace person or no one wanted to do that yesterday. It's fine enough with ID and I like that though. Okay. So have fun parking with me over here. Cool. Thank you, Elise. The final issue area that we jammed on yesterday was on government governance, but in particular thinking about co-ops as DAOs, question mark, right? It's like using a really grounded example of cooperative businesses as decentralized autonomous organizations. Some of our big ideas were around what it meant to allocate scarce public resources fairly. How we could impact a supply chain positively and how we might combat corruption and monopolies to help small businesses and to help individuals who are small businesses. So one of the problem statements that we landed on, let's see if I can read it from here. Farmers and co-ops need a method to distribute value from its fields efficiently and fairly because often smaller farmers are not treated fairly. There's powers, right? And then we also pulled back and had a few more abstracted problem statements around decision makers or leaders in organizations needing to be able to make decisions in ways that are transparent, right? Sorry about that. So if you want to think about how cooperatives and how governance might support small businesses being more efficient and fair for small business owners, you can jam over here. You'll see that we have a fourth area, right? We have a talking about decision making in small business and governance for co-ops or I.E.'s or financial control and ownership are currently doesn't appeal to you. You are going to go to the other area and we will generate topics there. So in a moment, when I say go, you're all going to stand up and move and find a seat or bring over a seat with you into the area that you would like to talk about and work on for the next 40 minutes or so. So again. Is everybody clear on every one of the topics? Because I know some of you came in late. Financial is related to financial accessibility and maintaining the assets you have. Awesome, thank you. Cool. So, financial accessibility, governance and cooperative organizations, I.D. and like positive digital security. I don't want to talk about any of those. Let's talk about something else. If you have a burning topic in your mind you always wanted to talk about you wanted to get other people around, go here, propose it. What about the three? So. They are related, you're totally right. Financial is related to I.D. They're all related, we have only an hour. Right, so. So let's go talking in groups. Yeah, so on the count of three you're all going to get up. So the purpose of what you're going to do in your group is you're going to look at the problem statements that were left and you're going to improve them. The problem statements that we have, you just came up with yesterday. They're not good yet, right? And there's so much more information that you, with what you know, your experiences, you can add to these issue areas and these problem statements. So that's what we're going to work on over the next 40 minutes or so. Because we know that we have built something that we as a group can improve on. So, everybody stand up, find a seat in the issue area and you'd like to work on it. Welcome. Hello, hello, hello. Good morning. How're you doing? I'm fine, I'm eight exactly. Coffee time. Coffee time. Your hair is so dry, don't blotch it. No way for it to burn. I can't be good. Anybody go find an answer? Okay, there's some more chairs in the back. Anybody in the chair? There we are, it's a color. Let's look at the art. Let's look at some of the data. The problem states that we all have decided we're going with. The people in poverty need access to funding and the out-existing credit providers. They need chairs to help to start the government. People in developing markets need more and fewer ways of storing their money because the current way of storing them is not that safe. There was another one. 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