Blockchain for the Global Goals

A #SocialGoodTech Twitter Chat

Blockchain is a revolutionary new way to structure data, allowing global citizens around the world to share a digital ledger to track transactions through a network of computers. Blockchain has the potential to limit the need for the central authority figures that currently manage these relationships. From fighting hunger to global health, organizations and entrepreneurs are already exploring how this emerging technology and its secure transaction capabilities could transform the development space.

This Twitter chat will highlight the successes and challenges of this emerging technology and how blockchain is progressing the Global Goals.

• Date: January 23, 2018
• Time: 10am ET
• Hashtag: #SocialGoodTech

Questions we will be addressing:

• How would you define blockchain in one tweet?
• What are the main benefits blockchain brings to international development?
• How is blockchain currently being used to progress the Global Goals? For which issues is it being most effectively utilized?
• What are your favorite blockchain success stories?
• What are the challenges of using blockchain for international development?
• How can we work to address those challenges?
• How can leaders at the World Economic Forum ensure that technologies like blockchain are being used for social good?
• What do you hope is the future of blockchain for the Global Goals?

This Twitter chat is part of our 2018 Emerging Technologies for the Global Goals series. Learn how you can get involved here.