Blockchain applications: Fletcher & Vaccinet
Blockchain systems can be used to solve important societal challenges. These challenges range from improving supply-chains over the creation of self-sovereign identities to cross-country financial transactions. You want to know how this is done? Join our meetup!
Where: HG E 23
When: 13.06.2018
Time: 18-20.30 (incl. Apéro)
At our first meetup, we obtained a high-level overview of the Blockchain Research Zurich landscape. At the second, we had a lively discussion about monetary policies around Bitcoin and deflationary currencies.
For our third meetup, we want to investigate what tools and applications can be built with blockchain systems in order to tackle important societal challenges. So, we are happy to announce that two teams from BIOTS 2018 will present their solutions at our next Meetup. Each presentation will be commented by an expert in the field of blockchain applications and followed by a Q&A.
We will close the evening with one of our legendary Apéros :)
Program:
18:00 Welcome - Marcus M. Dapp, COSS/ FuturICT2
18:10 Fletcher - Decentralized Messaging on the Blockchain. (external pageGitHub)
Fletcher is a communication protocol that allows developers to give users greater control over the visibility of their messages. Fletcher is decentralized. It enables the development of blockchain applications with customizable transparency. Potential use cases are in messaging application and supply chain management. Fletcher can be deployed on Ethereum.
18:30- Qusai Jouda, Software Developer FuturICT 2.0, former blockchain lead UNICEF (New York)
18:40 Q&A
18:50 Vaccinet – Immunization and Public Health using Blockchain (external pageGitHub)
Each year, millions of deaths could be prevented by vaccinating a greater number of people in developing countries. Three main obstacles need to be overcome in order to solve this challenge: 1) There are not enough funds to pay for medicine, 2) a lack of trust in the system due to corruption and 3) a missing incentives for people to get vaccinated. Vaccinet attempts to solve these problems by introducing a Health- Token, which is given to each person upon vaccination. On a distributed ledger, every vaccination can be tracked ensuring trust in the system.
19:10 Max Roessner, Visiting Researcher, TUM Munich
19:20 Q&A
19:45: Closing - Marcus M. Dapp
APERO Sponsored by the COSS group & futurICT2.eu project.
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Impressions from the second meetup
