An alternative voting mechanism aims to capture how strongly members of the public feel about a particular policy or topic, beyond simple approval or rejection. In ‘Quadratic Voting’, voters are…
Blockchain
The World Bank has priced the world’s first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a $100 million ($73.16 million) deal designed to test how the technology might…
Liverpool City Council has signed a ground-breaking contract with an eco-digital company, the Poseidon Foundation, in a bid to become the world’s first “carbon positive” city by 2020. By becoming…
A collection of philanthropists, academics and investors, working in partnership with the French Polynesian government, have begun The Floating Island Project. This a pilot program, which will see 300 homes…
A group of Buddhist programmers have created the world’s first cryptocurrency-based spiritual community. Lotos is an online Buddhist network built on Ethereum blockchain. Members pay a monthly fee to access…
The OpenLitterMap Foundation has created a blockchain reward system for anyone who wants to help map plastic pollution. Littercoin is a Citizen Science Open Data Litter-Mapping Game that allows users…
