Low-road capitalism has created a pattern of continually exploiting value from the poorest and most vulnerable members of our global society. Many international supply chains are reliant on cheap and unprotected labor to, ultimately, get your online order to your door a day earlier than expected.
As the first blockchain grant recipient from the U.S. State Department, and in collaboration with New America, Harvard University’s public health graduate school, and Levi Strauss & Co, I co-led an initiative at ConsenSys to make the process of factory workers reporting on their employer experiences safer, more transparent, and tamper-proof with the help of blockchain technology.