Food Traceability on Blockchain
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/food-traceability-on-blockchain/
Sep 28, 2017 - This case study looks at Walmart’s pilot projects with IBM to track mangoes in the Americas and pork in China, from farm to table with focus on food safety. Blockchain technology helps to identify the source of contamination quickly, so that food producers, processors, distributors, and retailers can act quickly and protect the public from harm.
Keyword: China,
food provenance,
food safety,
IBM,
mango,
pork,
retail,
RFID,
SDG 2,
SDG 3,
Tsinghua University,
Walmart
Blockchain Revolution in Higher Education
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/blockchain-revolution-in-higher-education/
May 25, 2018 - This project explores how blockchain is transforming education with a focus on higher ed—vocational schools, community colleges, universities, and corporate training and development—from establishing student identity, protecting their privacy, financing their coursework, measuring their progress, and recording their credentials of achievement through open data exchange protocols. The development of microcredentialing capabilities, pay-as-you-learn funding models, and massively open online courses, plus the co-creation of open educational resources, are making the meta-university and lifelong learning affordable and accessible for more stu...
Keyword: academic record,
BlockCerts,
edtech,
education,
Learning Is Earning 2026,
MIT Media Lab,
MOOC,
OER,
OpenBadges,
SDG 10,
SDG 4,
SDG 5,
Sony Global Education,
student ID,
T&D
Blockchain Revolution in Education and Lifelong Learning
File Type: Document
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/blockchain-revolution-in-education-and-lifelong-learning/
Apr 22, 2019 - Updated in collaboration with the IBM Institute for Business Value, this project explores how blockchain is transforming education with an emphasis on lifelong learning and the reskilling of the workforce. It covers not just traditional educational institutions but also corporate training and development, where innovators are using blockchain to establish student identity, protect privacy, finance coursework, measure progress, and record badges of achievement and skills mastery. The implementation of microcredentialing capabilities, pay-as-you-learn funding models, and massively open online courses, plus the co-creation of open educational re...
Keyword: BlockCerts,
Credly,
Degreed,
edtech,
education,
IBM,
IMS Global Learning Consortium,
learning pathways,
MIT Media Lab,
MOOC,
OER,
open data exchange protocols,
OpenBadges,
SDG 10,
SDG 4,
SDG 5,
Sovrin Alliance,
student ID,
T&D
Declaration of Interdependence
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/declaration-of-interdependence/
Jan 16, 2018 - This manifesto for change calls for a new social contract, one that redefines the relationship between individuals in society and the institutions they have created to self-govern. It looks at the four drivers of this change—the Fourth Industrial Revolution, globalization of ideas and the economy, climate change, and demographic shifts due to war, drought, and oppression. It identifies such global disruptions as structural unemployment and inequality; failing education, healthcare, and research and development; human rights violations; and a biosphere in crisis. It identifies the four core change makers—the private sector, the state, civi...
Keyword: artificial intelligence,
automation,
biotechnology,
Bretton Woods,
climate change,
education,
financial crisis,
Fourth Industrial Revolution,
government,
healthcare,
Internet of Things,
labor union,
machine learning,
offshoring,
outsourcing,
populism,
portable safety net,
robotics,
SDG 1,
SDG 11,
SDG 13,
SDG 16,
SDG 2,
SDG 3,
SDG 4,
SDG 5,
SDG 8,
universal basic income
The Nine Disruptions
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-nine-disruptions/
Jan 16, 2018 - This is an excerpt from a manifesto for change, which identifies such global disruptions to our social fabric as structural unemployment and inequality; failing education, healthcare, and research and development; human rights violations; and a biosphere in crisis.
Keyword: climate change,
financial crisis,
global warming,
governance,
government,
labor union,
offshoring,
outsourcing,
privacy,
SDG 13,
SDG 3,
SDG 4,
SDG 8,
security
Reclaiming Medication on the Blockchain
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/reclaiming-medication-remedichain/
Mar 31, 2020 - The RemediChain project has emerged as a blockchain-based national database that collects drug waste data and supports the redistribution of safe, unused drugs and the safe destruction of expired or spoiled medication. The platform—a hybrid of Enterprise Ethereum incorporating Hyperledger Besu client and Istanbul Byzantine fault tolerant 2.0 with a proof-of-authority consensus mechanism—checks the quality of donations and tracks their provenance from source to destination, either to patients or to government-approved incinerators. This research explores the opportunities and implementation challenges of such a solution for stakeholders.
Keyword: ConsenSys Health,
FDA,
Good Shepherd Pharmacy,
healthcare,
IDLogiq,
KitChain,
Lipscomb University,
MediLedger,
Rymedi,
SafeNetRx,
SDG 12,
SDG 3,
TraceLink,
UCLA Health,
xCures
