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 attraceted 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.

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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