Category: Illinois Blockchain Taskforce

“A Blockchain Profile for Medicaid Applicants and Recipients.” Institute for the Future, biocryptic process, biometric data, Bitcoin, Bitcoin entrepreneur Andreas Atonopolous, Blockchain, Bloomberg’s What Works Cities, Chamber of Digital Commerce and Coin Center - Blockchain Alliance, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, datum, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Enigma, Evernym, a Utah-based company - digital identity solutions, Fummi, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, Internet of Things, iris scans, JB Pritzker, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Casey, global economics professor, MIT Digital Currency Lab, Municipal ID Card / Payment Programs, Neha Nerula, Ocean Protocol, Pay for Success, refugee crisis, Santoshi Nakamoto - “Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System.”, Self Sovereign Identity, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, un-housed - homeless, unCHAINed - refugee UI, universal basic income (UBI)Leave a comment
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Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, and Selling Off Humanity

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Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Digital currency payments validated with biometric information like iris scans have been prototyped using refugee populations over the past few years (see the featured image). While the technology that undergirds it is complex, programmers are … Continue reading Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, and Selling Off Humanity

AI and education, Angela Duckworth, app-ified “solutions”, Atlantic Philanthropies, Automated Drones, “evidence-based” approaches, behavioral economics, big data and the surveillance state, Bill Gates, Blockchain, Bloomberg, Callsign (digital identity authentication), Cambridge Analytica, Cass Sunstein, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Characterlab / Grit, Choice Architects, Citi Group’s “Living Cities” program, Cornell-Technion’s Small Data Lab, criminal justice reform, Daniel Kaheneman, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), digital exhaust, digital nudges, DISC Holdings (digital payments and credit on blockchain), Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, e-government transactions, EA3 devices, Element (biometrics), Evan Nesterak - The Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative (PBSI), Goldman Sachs, Google, Google’s Eric Schmidt Data is the New Oil, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), Ideas42, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, impact metrics, Institute for New Economic Thinking - George Soros, International Finance Commission (IFC), Internet of Things, John and Laura Arnold Foundation, John Arnold- Enron, Katherine Milkman, Lisa Nutter - Sidecar Social Finance, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Nutter - What Works Cities, MIT Media Lab, neoliberal practices, Nudge Unit, Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OccupyICEPHL, Pay for Success, Philadelphia District Attorney’s office - Larry Krasner, Project Trillion Billion, PTB Ventures, public pensions, Results for America, Richard Thaler, Smart Cities, social control, social impact investing, Swarthmore Professor Syon Bhanot, Tata Consulting, The Brookings Institution, UPenn’s GRASP lab, US Army Research Lab, Wharton Business School, Wharton’s Behavior Change for Good programLeave a comment
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Digital Nudging: Data, Devices & Social Control

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Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. …“Choice architects” create these systems and weave them into public policy. Through strategic application of “nudges,” citizens,  otherwise “irrational actors” in the market, can be guided to conform to economists’ expectations. Through nudges, … Continue reading Digital Nudging: Data, Devices & Social Control

Break the Ban, data dashboards, digital identity, digital identity systems linked to public assistance benefits, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, food insecurity, Gina Cornia of Utahans Against Hunger, Healthy eating incentive, hunger, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, INET, Janis Dubno, neoliberal practices, Nudge - healthy choices, nutrition, outcomes-based contract, outcomes-based funding stream, Pay for Success, Pay for Success Fund, performance-based contract, Poverty, Ridge-Lane, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, ROI - return on investment, San Francisco Federal Reserve, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, social impact investing, The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, third grade reading scores, white supremacyLeave a comment
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Test Scores and Child Hunger: The Cold Calculus of Pay for Success Predators

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Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Through outsourcing and the imposition of hard metrics, “what works” lobbyists intend to push the poor, and those teetering on the brink of poverty, into an abyss of impact-driven digital slavery. They’ll pull … Continue reading Test Scores and Child Hunger: The Cold Calculus of Pay for Success Predators