by Daniel James Paterson

1. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
Blockchains Fighting Poverty
Daniel James Paterson
danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty

2. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
Daniel James Paterson
• Worked for five major pico-solar companies in
developing countries
• Also digital technology for solopreneurs
• University of Nicosia Bitcoin / Blockchain course

3. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
People in developing countries face problems which
don’t exist in the West
...and blockchains can provide many new solutions
Here are six examples from:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/
BlockchainsFightingPoverty

4. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• Example:
Publicism
• Press freedom
• Provides
anonymity AND
source reliability
• Plus anonymous
funding
opportunity

5. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• Example:
Provenance
• Digital history of
each product:
transparency and
traceability
• Prevention of
counterfeit
medicines and
robuster patient
record keeping

6. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• Examples:
Bitland, Bitfury, etc
• Providing proof of:
• identity
• ownership
• Allows e.g.
• banking
• borrowing against
homes (“dead capital”)
• property improvement
• preventing land theft
• community assets
management
• Errr, but how?
...“community attestation”

7. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• Example: World
Food Programme
• Reducing overhead
transaction cost
(2.5%)
• Also to:
• prevent
incorrect food
distribution
• reduce identity
fraud and data
mismanagement

8. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• Example:
Follow My Vote
• Voting
robustness
• Transparency,
self-verification
of vote and
independent
macro auditing

9. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• ID storage for
refugees
• ID docs are
often lost or
confiscated
• Helps with the
refugee issue of
our time: who is
treat and who is
not?

10. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
• Example:
AID:Tech
• Distributing aid
funding in a
traceable
manner
• ...to reduce
inefficiencies
and fraud

11. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
Plus...
• Distributed manufacturing (1000 products
split across 100 3D printers....)
Example: FieldReady
• Transaction cost reduction through Bitcoin
(“M-Pesa on a planetary scale...”)
• Wildcard... Helping to tackle poverty in the
West by using smart contracts to set how
benefits can and can’t be spent

12. Daniel James Paterson danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty
Blockchains Fighting Poverty
Daniel James Paterson
danieljpaterson@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlockchainsFightingPoverty