2020 awards

Bitcoin Beach

Economic development that incorporates sound money principles and using technology to better the lives of the poor.

Bloinx by BX Smart Labs

Bloinx is developing a decentralized application that helps people build their own rotating credit and saving associations.

DADA’s Invisible Economy:

DADA’s Invisible Economy allows a global community of artists to create collaborative digital art driven by intrinsic motivations, and receive a social dividend regardless of the free markets, while creating collective long-term wealth.

DistributedTown

DistributedTown is a network of interconnected, self-sovereign communities – that lets anyone join an existing one, or create their own based on a mutual credit system, to switch from a system based on Money, to a system based on Value.

Dreamer: Bitcoin Beach

Economic development that incorporates sound money principles and using technology to better the lives of the poor.

Dreamer: DistributedTown

Dreamer: Wikibank

The most efficient donation of fresh food to those in need

Exalti

exalti is a digital platform through which associations and NGOs but also companies can publish their mutual help requests so the other actors can lend them time and expertise to tackle the subjects. These exchanges are based on a time-based cryptocurrency, called exalto. One exalto represents a few hours of time exchanged via the platform; and its circulation attests to its effectiveness. exalto are forged thanks to financial donations made via the platform by family or corporate foundations, companies, or individual donors.

Fiscal digital

#Fiscal_Digital digitally certifies official election documents on public blockchains allowing anyone to access them in a tamper proof way. Then, we count the votes together!

Orígenes

Allows people to empower their rights to know their biological identity as well as reunited families, bringing high level security and privacy. Problems are scaled globally, our solution as well.

PlastiCoin

Plasticoin is a rewards program that gives value to Plastic waste. Connecting efficiently the generators with recycling chains.

Shaper: DADA’s Invisible Economy

Shaper: TraceRx

More than 30% of the goods that go towards humanitarian development and relief disappear every year. Our platform delivers granular insight into the supply chains responsible for these shipments and drives vision into eliminating this loss.

Shaper: Trustlines protocol

Trustlines Protocol is an open source technology stack for peer-to-peer mutual credit. Instead of government money or bank money, Trustlines enables communities to create payment systems out of People Powered Money -- in other words, using everyday “I-owe-you” agreements based on trust.

The Blue Future Organization

A digital blue inspired organization to help the planet by cultivating Algae and seaweed on the oceans.

TraceRx

Trustlines protocol

Wikibank

The most efficient donation of fresh food to those in need

2019 awards

AgUnity

AgUnity empowers small farmers, improving trust and transparency through optimizing co-operatives operation and communication.AgUnity ensures market transparency across the agricultural value chain.

Artisan OrigIn

A / O is created with the purpose of professionalizing the artisanal industry, through tools that validate, certify and document; master craftsmen, techniques, materials, creation story. It consists of a blockchain certification for every artisan, as a digital sign to validate their origin. With Artisan Origin a new way of empowering artisan work is possible by giving the crafters autonomy and independence.

BanQu

BanQu brings transparency & traceability in the global supply chain using a non-crypto blockchain platform to connect last-mile farmers and workers to global economy. Its mission is to lift people out of extreme poverty. With over 200K last-mile beneficiaries, BanQu uses a for-profit, for-purpose business model a to connect the users, brands, organizations and governments.

Cambiatus

Cambiatus facilitates the creation of digital communities (DACs or Decentralized Autonomous Communities, also known as DAOs) seeking to achieve their common social and environmental objectives.Cambiatus offers the technological platform for communities to connect, interact, make decisions and achieve their objectives in a decentralized and resilient way, using social currencies on blockchain as economic incentives.

ClimateTrade

In support of Climate Action and aiming to help reduce carbon footprint, ClimateTrade offers a platform where businesses, consumers and investors can transact to offset carbon foortprint while incentivizing disruptive technologies and investing in green financial products.

Closing The Loop

Closing the Loop is aiming at providing solid proof to donors on funds allocation and spending. Increase trust, dignity and equality among NGOs and beneficiaries, Donors and NGOs. Increase impact measurement in humanitarian aid distribution.

DORIUM

DORIUM will enable and support social entrepreneurship and economic growth. Its Community evaluates, rewards, creates and finances social and environmental improvements without further fiat currency investment. DORIUM can change the life of billions of people by changing current incentives and creating money backed by the value of social improvements.

ETHKids

EthKids is a Dapp that enables charity donations for children. An open source, non-commercial decentralized protocol using the dynamic bonding curve model as incentive for donors which allows donation rewards, EthKids tries to solve the problem of short-lasting relations with the donators.

FamilyEOS

A project to build a modern and decentralized economy in Venezuela. They offer financial inclusion to locals in need in the first phase of the program, fostering a local and tokenized economy. They motivate university students to be active users of the blockchain space and provide them with tools to learn and build.

GRACEaid

Provides refugees with necessary clothes and essentials.We aim to track the donated currency-convert it to goods-ship and distribute-verify receipt from individual beneficiaries.

Gaiachain

Enables Community Driven Development supporting the Women's association to focus on sustainable charcoal production. Holding government-issued title to help restore the highly degraded Forest in Ivory Coast; the Women association implements Agro-forestry techniques to produce climate-positive charcoal resulting in a net increase in forest cover.

Grassroots Economics: Community Inclusion Currencies (CIC)

Through community currencies people have a way to exchange goods and services and incubate new businesses, without relying on scarce national currency and volatile markets. Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs), A Grassroots Economics project, propose reinventing cash transfer programs to act as a catalyst for communities to develop and trade their own medium of exchange (CICs) backed by their own productive capacities. Current pilots in Kenya have shown that CICs enable vulnerable communities to have a long term multiplier.

LendSV-Monetix

Blockchain based Peer-to-Peer Lending with focus on Microfinance where all parties reap the benefits. A continuing low-interest environment, searching for yield and an ever increasing higher prioritization of social objectives makes this market, however, also very attractive for foreign investors who are willing to lend at significantly lower rates.

PhiEconomy

A framework that creates new type of jobs & ieconomic means to people who want to be part of a a new way of value creation that leads them towards solving their own local problems. PhiEconomy's model aims at aligning the right behaviors to get people involved in solving their city/province/nation/global's problems while creating a source of income from it.

PolloPollo

Moved by the unsustainable situation suffered by Venezuelans lack of food, this projects sets out to build an intermediary for charitable donations of physical products governed by conditional payments from a donor to the producer/shop subject to the recipient's confirmation of the physical product.

Ribbon Blockchain

A Public health incentive app that rewards patients, healthcare practitioners and community health workers for proactively addressing major health issues and allowing greater access to healthcare for the people in South Africa.

Shelpin

Shelpin is an full open source model that aims to support a global movement of Socially Responsible businesses, consumers and brands that turns a % of transactions made into traceable, accountable and verifiable donations to selected causes chosen by conscious fans and consumers as a means to achieve a more equitable society.

Social Diner Project

The Social Diner Project encourages and rewards social diner volunteers by accurately registering work effort carried out to prepare food and feed the people. At the same time, it is creating an internal economy within the vulnerable neighbourhoods in Argentina.

The Humanized Internet

Using new technologies to defend the rights of vulnerable people, and give every human being worldwide secure, sovereign control over their own digital identity. Concrete step towards E-sovereignty by providing the basic tools and solving towards persistent storage and selective disclosure.

VenezVit

VenezVit aims at fulfilling unmet needs for live-saving medications to reach people in need. Depending on the country, some regulations impose disposal of medications (from diseased patients) that have been unused and in good conditions to take. VenezVit wants to create an application that helps distribute donated and recycled medications to where it is needed most and can help save lives.

2018 awards

Proyecto Comedor (Community Driven Dining Room)

The project that certifies, via blockchain, a human effort of group of 15 women who are making food for the people in needs in Argentinian Slams.

ACT project

ACT is a curation market and decentralized crowdfunding dApp. Any number of "ACT Funds" can be created which all utilise our decentralized curation engine where curators are rewarded for their work.

AidCoin

AidCoin enables donations in 28 cryptos to charities registered at AIDChain platform.

Arcadia

Arcadia enables NGOs to provide peer-to-peer financial services to refugees without requiring partnerships with financial institutions or navigating of cumbersome regulatory landscapes.

Bitland Global

Land Title Registration backed by a blockchain based protocol

Blockchain Tierras (Land Registry Colombia)

Addresses the security challenges and the reliability in the adjudication resolutions for the rural land ownership by the state governing body, the Agencia Nacional de Tierras (ANT)

Bonfire

Advance community work by linking together localized and decentralized communities. Concretely, we propose a model in which self-governing community members get together in a physical location and contribute to the growth of that location based on a set of DAO-like rules.

Cripto Conserje

Educate users and business owners to transact with cryptocurrencies which can provide economic stability to LATAM, particularly in places such as Venezuela where communities are suffering from severe shortages of food and medicine.

Crypto Development Fund (CDF)

The CDF creates an investment platform through which international investors can invest in promising, high-impact startups from developing countries. The funding is based on milestones and impact reports which have to be prepared by the startups and validated by different partners. This allows for increased transparency but also for industry reports once the platform has attracted a certain number of investors.

DAO IPCI

Transparent, inclusive and cost-efficient blockchain ecosystem that helps draw financing into low-carbon economy and therefore fights climate change. Allows transparent P2P operations with verified carbon units, renewable energy certificates and other green financial instruments.

DIDI

Financial inclusion and blockchain ecosystem developing in Argentinian slums. Digital identities, property certifying and social inclusion for the people that is living out of the regular system.

DappNode

DAppnode is a software that allows to easily deploy own nodes and DApps as the access way to a real decentralized web and world that will change the status quo. DApnode allows to develop communities by generating income and building trusted networks that are connected to a DAppnode

Decentralized Technologies

Open source movement based in Guatemala, creating and promoting protocols that empower the individuals by giving them access to capital, the ability to claim ownership and the possibility to have multiple purpose based identities on the blockchain.

EV Share

The real electric, shared, autonomous, clean, blockchain based community-driven, zero-emissions, energy and transportation system for smart cities.

Ethic Hub

Peer to peer micro lending for farmers that connect them directly with the investors via blockchain

Give Bytes

GiveBytes.com is a crowdfunding platform where users can support fundraising campaigns of their choice by donating their computing power to mine cryptocurrency and matching it through CSR with corporate money.

HelperBit

HelperBit developed a transparency donation platform where people can donate directly to NGOs for generic causes or to other entities (such as civil protections, hospitals, municipalities..) involved in the emergency management. Even verified single users in need can directly benefit from worldwide donations.

Kidner Project

Provide an auditable and accountable record of organ allocations to improve trust in medicine.

Kidner Project

Kidner is a platform that helps healthcare facilities finding match for kidney paired-donation. It's a global database, Blockchain-based, secured with cryptographic tools. Kidner increases the chance to find rapidly a proper match while being fully protected. Kidner offers the opportunity to extend paired exchange for all incompatible donor-recipient pairs in a secure and rapid way.

Rohingya Project

Empowering stateless Rohingya through a Blockchain-based digital identity system to access financial opportunities.

The Sun Protocol

We are creating a blockchain in and for rural Africa. For that we provide with our partners or ourselves affordable electricity and internet access. With the electricity we introduce a loyalty program, that uses a wallet and a token as mean of distribution and transaction. This creates what we call the energy standard - a token worth exactly a fixed amount of electricity.

Tykn

Helping governments & NGOs in bringing socio-economic inclusion to people at the fringes of society by giving them a digital identity. Absolving the world of invisible people & improving the process of humanitarian relief action!

Waba Network

They have built two networks on blockchain that solve problems of the everyday economy. The first one is MonedaPar.com, which allows 800 micro-SMEs in many different Argentinian cities to sell more and access to credit. On the other hand, Discoin was launched a year after MonedaPar. It is a network which encourages citizens to shop local at 40 shops in La Plata, Argentina. Thanks to Discoin, local businesses can use their idle capacity, while keeping the wealth within the city.

2017 awards

Alice

Decentralized social impact ecosystem

Amply

Using blockchain to enable pre-school teachers to easily access government subsidies that support disadvantaged children to pay for schooling

Bitgive

Real-time financial transparency and project outcomes.

Blockchain 4 Transparency

Corruption is one of the main wounds of Latin America. Among the most important causes of this social problem is the ability to manipulate public information by officials and governments, until now

ComGo

ComGo is the blockchain based technology platform of the Common Good Ecosystem (CGE)

Denominator

Vaccines Supply Chain data insights, security and efficiency

EthicHub

Decentralized P2P lending for small farmers

Helperbit

Helperbit uses bitcoin blockchain, exploiting the efficiency, speed and transparency of this technology in order to offer a unique P2P donation platform that empowers users to have full control over their donations and gives public audit of organizations activities.

Hola Luka

Bringing the unbanked into the world of Fintech and humanizing money

IDbox

Enables people to create IDs/wallets without access to internet and power grid

Kamano

Crowdsourcing, fundraising, non-profit or community projects and micro-loans.

Moneda PAR

Stimulating Social Economy by allowing for Mutual credit system that works with a cryptocurrency:

Pesabase

The project aims to contribute to bridging the huge financial gap in Africa, starting from South Sudan where only 3 percent of the population is banked.

Sandblock

Consumption and donations: Sandblock is creating a decentralized consortium for brands and customers. It is a new kind of economy where brands can offer branded tokens instead of loyalty points.

Shelpin

Shelpin connects socially responsible consumers, brands and NGOs so each purchase generates a donation that is only released when the community validates the outcome of the social project

Slavefreetrade

Platform for ensuring legit and slave free production methods and supply chains

Systemad

Exploring blockchain as a tool for social , economic and civic inclusion in low income neighbourhoods

The Good Cards

Cards that inspire people do good things for others

Usizo

Crypto donations via smartmeters to primary schools

Waba

Organized community across the globe willing to achieve its social and environmental goals and cannot find a successful strategy within the current governing financial system.

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