Cardano Supports 4 Humanitarian Aid

CS4HA disrupts legacy systems with new Dapp use cases that can reach millions of new Cardano users who need access to vital human resources

Variety of DApps ready 2 trial in decentralised humanitarian ways:

• Financial
• Location-based
• Identity
• Trust
• Traceability
• Network
• Supply-chain

• Target audience - who will use the solutions and how many could they reach during trials?
• Portability - can solutions be used in more than one regional context or use-case?
• Distribution - which organisations are identified and should be engaged to propose trialling prototype solutions?
• Ease of use - is it easy for Babushka (grandma) to use the solution? Can someone with low-skills/no skills or low-tech/no-tech experience?

In the past weeks the situation in Ukraine has brought to light many humanitarian issues that the world has long been faced with.

However Ukraine is not the only humanitarian crisis in the world and this in itself is worthwhile addressing with design thinking and innovation for distributed systems and decentralised structures.

During times of humanitarian crises, critical civilian infrastructure is of the highest importance to protect, however in all too many instance this is also the first aspect of war to become fractured or altogether broken.

People are unable to transfer value when ATM machines run out of cash, or banks close. Vital wireless networks go down, preventing point of sale digital transactions to take place in stores that remain open.

Needless to say, older generations or people that do not live in parts of the world we could consider modern societies (and sometimes even in modern societies as we've seen most recently) are often not equipped to address these issues with the available technology they have themselves.

Innovation is needed to improve all aspects of these important human processes, provide personal safety, and to safeguard against the inhumanity that is sometimes forced against innocent bystanders caught up in political conflict zones.

A variety of DApps could be produced that leverages Cardano to improve the resilience of humanitarian aid and support systems. These could include:

• Financial: One-click, Peer 2 peer payments that are aware of constraints of people without smart devices (considerate of feature phones, or old-gen devices)
• Location-based: how can blockchain improve location based services and communications?
• Identity: solutions that eliminate the need for legacy ID documentation for crossing borders or proving who you are to third parties.
• Trust: solutions that enable trustless systems to benefit those in need or in times of crises
• Traceability: solutions which provide confidence about provenance
• Network: critical internet infrastructure is sometimes unavailable - how can we prevent this
• Supply-chain: among the most challenging, how can we deliver aid to those who can get it to those who need it, without limitations such as breaks in the chain, trust, legitimacy, and authentication.

Each one of these categories of application use-cases has the potential to reach and impact millions of users and their lives