Blockchain and Sustainable Development – How Does It Work?

 

Everyone is talking about blockchain and DLT. But what exactly are they and how do they work? In RESET’s latest Blockchain Special, we offer some answers to those questions and take a look at how the tech can be used for both social and ecological good.

Blockchain and Sustainable Development – How Does It Work?

Everyone is talking about blockchain and DLT. But what exactly are they and how do they work? In RESET's latest Blockchain Special, we offer some answers to those questions and take a look at how the tech can be used for both social and ecological good.

Blockchain-Based Platform Textile Trust Aims to Make Industry Supply Chains More Transparent

Consumers are rarely given information about where their clothes come from and how they were made. In Germany, a new platform aims to bring more transparency into textile supply chains.

Threadcounts: Sustainable Fashion With the Help of the Blockchain

The Berlin startup Threadcounts is tracking and tracing the journey of fairtrade textiles - from farm, to consumer, to recycling centre. All with the help of the blockchain and a product passport that shows just how sustainable your clothing really is.

More Transparency, Less Corruption, “Better” Bureaucracy: How Can Blockchain Help?

Blockchain isn't only set to shake up our financial system – it could also help reduce bureaucracy, make supply chains more transparent and fight corruption around the world.

Blockchain and DLT: Inflated Expectations or a Real Digital Social Revolution?

Blockchain is still a relatively young technology, and while it still has a few challenges to overcome, there are already several real world examples of its potential for positive change.

Democratising Access to Essential Services With Digital Identities and Blockchain Technology

Blockchain could help provide a secure infrastructure for the deployment of digital identities - makin

What Exactly Are the Blockchain and DLT?

What is it exactly that blockchain can do? And why it so incredibly hyped? RESET takes a closer look at the technology and where its strengths (and weaknesses) lie.

Interview: How MineSpider is Using Blockchain to Keep Conflict Minerals Out of Our Supply Chains

MineSpider, a Berlin-based startup, is using distributed ledger technology to tackle the tricky problem of how to track where minerals come from and where they end up.

Nature 2.0: How Can Blockchain Help Ecosystems Manage – and Protect – Themselves?

Can the blockchain help natural systems manage themselves? A team of developers, theoreticians and researchers is trying to find out. We talked to Paul Seidler, one of the brains behind terra1.