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https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/building-blockchain-products-for-unicef-how-to-get-involved/
UNICEF has been experimenting with Ethereum and blockchain for several years. Examples of the solutions they've built include the UNICEF cryptofund (the first crypto denominated fund in the UN), Patchwork kingdoms (the largest UN's NFT for good collection) or staking as financing tool. Do you want be part of this journey? Come to the session and learn more about the solutions (architecture, tech stack, deployment process) and understand how you can help.
Speaker(s): Shane O'Connor, Naroa, Gerben Kijne
Track: Opportunity & Global Impact
Keywords: innovation,development,blockchain for good
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A
A
A
and
UNICEF
is
one
of
the
larger
un
organizations,
so
big
bureaucratic
sometimes
slow
to
move.
So
it
takes
us
a
long
time
to
try
and
get
UNICEF
to
move
in
this
type
of
space
and
to
get
us
up
to
speed
on
how
to
properly
use
the
technology.
That's
out
there
in
the
real
world
to
support
unicef's
programming.
A
In
my
own
team
that
I
work
with
the
Venture
fund,
we
have
been
providing
kind
of
seed
funding
to
support
what
we
call
Frontier
Technology
Solutions,
that
benefit
children
and
the
world,
and
we
have
some
people
from
a
few
of
the
companies
that
have
benefited
from
that
here
in
the
room
today,
but
really
from
the
slide.
There
you'll
see
we're
looking
at
the
intersection
of
the
needs
of
one
billion
people
and
100
billion
dollar
Industries.
So
we
look
at
AI,
drones,
3D,
printing
machine
learning
and
also
blockchain
and
cryptocurrency.
A
A
We
have
a
cohort
that
is
about
to
be
announced
in
the
next
one
month
or
so,
and
this
is
some
of
the
our
third
cohort
around
blockchain
and
you
can
see
some
of
the
kind
of
solutions
and
companies
that
have
been
involved
there
and
yeah
I
think
we'll.
Hopefully,
people
can
see
those
coming
out
pretty
soon
excellent.
A
A
But
we
do
have
another
cohort
graduate
that
is
supporting
us,
Room
San
from
Nepal,
but
using
blockchain
for
cash
transfer
to
really
increase
transparency
of
these
processes.
So
everyone
can
see
the
movement
of
the
funds
all
the
way
to
the
beneficiary,
and
this
is
interesting
for
us
as
a
UN
agency,
but
also
particularly
interesting,
I.
Think
to
donors
too
and
of
course,
saving
costs
compared
to
the
traditional
aspects.
For
this
this
particular
space
UNICEF
is
also
looking
currently
we're
using
blockchain
to
support
the
the
cash
transfer
programming.
A
B
So
my
name
is
Herman.
I
lead
the
blockchain
work
for
Giga
at
UNICEF,
gigas
kind
of
like
operates
as
a
little
startup
within
the
office
of
innovation.
At
UNICEF
we
were
started.
We
started
in
2019
and
we're
sort
of
a
joint
venture
between
UNICEF
and
the
itu.
The
international
telecommunications
Union
and
our
goal
is
to
connect
all
the
world
schools
to
the
Internet
by
the
year
2030..
B
So
we
have
quite
a
lot
of
work
to
do
and
we
operate
along
sort
of
three
pillars
of
work.
The
first
pillar
is
mapping
believe
it
or
not.
We
actually
don't
know
where
all
the
schools
in
the
world
are
so
we're
using
machine
learning,
algorithms
to
analyze,
satellite
data
and
identify
schools
and
actually
help
governments
find
all
the
schools
in
their
country.
So
that's
always
an
interesting
conversation
with
the
Ministry
of
Education.
B
The
second
pillar
is
about
financing,
so
we
estimate
that
it's
going
to
cost
approximately
428
billion
dollars
to
connect
all
the
world
schools
to
the
internet,
which
is
quite
a
lot
of
money,
so
we're
really
investigating,
like
Innovative
financing
models,
to
find
sustainable
ways
to
to
make
this
happen.
So
there's
two
types
of
expenses
that
we
have
to
we
have
to
solve
for
the
first
one
is
obviously
sort
of
capital
expenses.
You
know
putting
fiber
in
the
ground,
putting
putting
Towers
up
that
sort
of
thing.
B
But
the
second
is
you
know
once
you
connect
to
school,
you
have
to
pay
for
ongoing
internet
connectivity,
you'll
sort
of
have
subscriptions
to
that.
That's
kind
of
like
how
it
works.
You
have
to
pay
your
bills,
otherwise
you
get
disconnected
so
we've
got
a
team
sort
of
focusing
on
on
making
that
happen,
and
the
third
pillar
is
about
actually
connecting
so
we
operate
a
team
called
the
accelerate
team
where
we
work
with
governments
to
investigate
different
kinds
of
business
models
for
different
kinds
of
scenarios.
B
You
know,
schools
in
urban
areas
needs
a
different
solution
than
schools
in
super
rural
areas.
So
we
work
with
governments
to
try
to
figure
that
out
and
advise
them
on
sort
of
the
best
way
to
go
so
that
they
at
some
point
can
take
over
the
financing
and
the
rollouts
of
these
programs
and
do
it
sustainably.
B
So,
like
I
said
we
launched
in
2019.
Our
goal
is
to
connect
all
the
world
schools
by
2030..
So
far
we
were
joined
by
19
countries.
We
have
connected
5
300
schools,
we've
mapped
about
1.1
million
out
of
an
estimated
6.5.
So
there's
still
like
quite
a
lot
of
work
to
do,
and
we
were
super
happy
to
be
joined
by
14
partners
that
support
us,
including
Ericsson,
Dubai,
Keras,
musk,
Foundation
dell,
recently
joined,
which
is
a
really
big
deal,
and
we've
raised
about
210
million
dollars
towards
this
goal.
B
So
the
first
one
is
what
we
call
gig
accounts,
which
is
like
a
accounting
platform
and
a
sort
of
monitoring
platform
for
the
people
who
are
actually
controlling
the
money
to
pay
for
a
school
internet
connectivity.
So
the
way
it
usually
happens
is
that
a
country,
government
or
a
UNICEF
country
office
will
write
out
a
contract
for
like
100
Schools
or
a
thousand
schools
in
a
country
and
have
very
little
tools
to
be
able
to
actually
monitor
whether
this
internet
service
is
delivered.
B
So
what
we're
developing
is
a
way
for
them
to
make
it
super
easy
to
monitor
that.
So
we
we
have
our
own
sort
of
real-time
data
application
that
schools
can
install
on
their
on
their
networks
and
reports,
data
back
to
us
so
that
if
data
is
subpar
or
connections,
get
disconnected,
we
can
actually
hold
internet
service
providers
accountable.
So
that's
that's
our
thing
and
what
we're
hoping
to
go
with
this
is
right.
B
Now
the
tools
really
sort
of
to
support
support
these
people
in
their
in
their
in
their
work.
But
what
will
be
really
cool
is
to
actually
connect
this
with
smart
contracts
and
monitor
where
the
internet
quality
is
delivered
and
if
it
is
automatically
pay
in
10
service
providers.
So
that
comes
super
easy
for
people
to
to
connect
schools
and
to
to
get
paid
for
that.
B
The
second
product
we're
working
on
is
called
connectivity
credits,
it's
kind
of
kind
of
similar
to
the
carbon
credit
market,
so
we're
building
a
Global
Marketplace
for
connectivity
to
make
the
connection
of
schools
sort
of
more
Equitable.
So
what's
currently
the
case
in
the
free
market
is
that
schools
in
rural
areas
get
connected
and
the
ones
in
urban,
in
urban
areas
don't
or
if
you're
a
school
in
the
rainforest.
B
An
internet
service
provider
isn't
gonna
like
lay
a
fiber
optics
cable
there.
So
what
we're
doing
is
we're
providing
a
marketplace
where
we
put
tokens
on
these
difficult
to
connect
schools
and
allow
internet
service
providers
to
redeem
these
tokens
for
benefits
from
the
government
like,
for
example,
tax
breaks
or
special
deals
when
bidding
for
Spectrum
bandwidth
and
that
sort
of
thing.
B
So
that's
currently
in
progress
in
in
Botswana
and
we're
looking
for
other
countries
to
to
implement
this
another
area
that
we're
investigating
is
nfts,
so
we've
launched
in
the
beginning
of
this
year.
The
first
first,
the
largest
I,
could
say
the
largest
sort
of
collection
within
the
UN
for
this
called
Patchwork
kingdoms.
It's
based
on
all
the
school
data
that
we
have
so
for
these
1.1
million
map
schools
that
we
have.
B
We
worked
with
the
data
artist
data
analytics
artist
to
create
these
1000
unique
art
pieces
and
raise
funds
for
Giga.
So
we
sold
all
of
them
raised
about
700
thousand
US
dollars
for
that
which
is
really
cool
and
looking
to
sort
of
build
upon
that
with
our
follow-up
collection.
Currently
title
in
progress
called
nft2,
where
we're
basically
looking
to
build
the
world's
most
comprehensive
decentralized
database
of
school
data.
B
So
the
idea
will
be
to
create
an
entity
for
every
single
School
in
the
world,
give
this
nft
for
to
the
schools
themselves
to
own
and
give
them
the
ability,
together
with
their
communities,
to
edit
the
data
for
their
school,
keep
it
up
to
date
and
and
own
this
data
themselves.
So
right
now,
it's
sort
of
on
our
Cloud
Server
in
Frankfurt
sort
of
looked
up
and
for
for
us
to
use,
but
it'd
be
really
cool
if
schools
own
their
own
data.
B
At
this
event,
it's
like
we're
finally
allowed
to
talk
about
this
in
public,
which
is
really
cool,
is
a
staking
experiment
that
we've
been
running
in
Rwanda,
so
we've
been
working
with
the
ethereum
foundation
and
the
the
government
of
Rwanda
to
create
an
impact
investing
product
using
ethereum
staking
to
pay
for
school
connectivity.
So
that's
currently
live
and
we'll
also
be
talking
about
that
more
in
the
panel
discussion
on
Thursday.
B
If
people
are
interested
I
think
that's
it
and
then
I'll
hand
over
there's,
one
more
so
I
mean
Rome
wasn't
built
in
a
day
and
these
products
aren't
either
we're
still.
You
know
iterating
on
these,
so
we're
asking
you
guys:
do
you
want
to
help
us
build
so
Antonio
Gutierrez
yeah
mentioned
us
at
the
previous
sort
of
General
Assembly,
so
there's
really
sort
of
been
a
global
call
now
for
governments
to
step
up
and
and
and
help
with
this
help
with
this
course
to.
C
Finish
with
the
with
the
talk
before
we
go
into
breaking
sessions,
is
that
we
we
cannot
do
this
alone.
We
are
relatively
or
fairly
small
team
compared
to
all
the
things
that
we
do
and
all
the
products
that
we
are
building.
So
we
work
with
companies
with
people
on
different
ways.
One
one
is
that
we
have
a
tech
team,
an
internal
Tech
Team
of
product
product
managers
that
the
scientists,
software
developers-
and
we
are
continuously
sourcing
for
that.
C
So,
if
you
are
interested
in
joining
our
team
keep
an
eye
in
our
website,
because
you
have
different
jobs
that
go
out
there
at
the
moment
we
have
one
for
a
blockchain
developer,
that's
open,
I!
Think
it's
going
to
be
open
for
another
week
or
so
so,
if
yeah,
if
either
you're
interested,
you
know
anyone
that
might
be
interested.
Please
just
read
the
word.
There
will
be
another
one
for
a
blockchain
product
manager,
Rod
as
well,
that
will
be
coming
out
soon
and
others
will
keep
coming
out.
C
So
definitely
keep
an
eye
on
that
and
and
apply.
We
also
especially
for
blockchain
work,
because
many
of
the
things
that
Urban
was
presenting
are
so
new
and
they
are
experiments
and
prototypes
that
we
are
building.
We
work
with
external
companies
and
with
vendors
to
to
build
them,
and
then
we
take
them
and
we
scale
them
internally,
but
we
first
work
with
companies
to
to
build
them.
C
C
So
again,
if
you
are
in
that
space
of
smart
contracts,
Etc
feel
free
to
apply
and
then
the
last
one
that
will
also
shortly
be
coming
out.
It's
on
the
connectivity
credits.
We
are
building
that
at
the
moment
in
Botswana
about
looking
to
Pilot
it
in
couple
of
other
countries.
So
there
will
be
another
call
looking
for
companies
to
build
that
a
token
Marketplace
for
for
connectivity
and
then
yeah
I
think
those
are
the
main
goals
that
will
be
coming
out.
C
Of
course,
then
we
also
work
with
companies
as
partners,
so
not
so
much
Contracting
them,
but
we
work
with
companies
like
that
they
must
well
that's
not
a
company
or
the
mass
Foundation
Ericsson
IHS
towers
as
partners
where
these
these
companies
give
in-kind
contributions,
either
funding
monetary,
but
also
sometimes
they
give
us
tech
support
either
through
their
developers
through
their
team.
So
again,
if
you
are
interested
in
helping
out
a
reach
out
to
us
and
then
finally
the
last
one,
it's
the
Venture
fund.
C
C
It's
coming
out
so
so
again
that
will
be
out
and
it's
an
investment
of
one
hundred
thousand
hundred
thousand
dollars
more
or
less
with
that.
I
would
also
encourage
you
to
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