Blockchain System For Human Rights Preservation
January 30 2019 - 1:15PM
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January 30, 2019 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- Earlier this month IBM
announced two projects working to reduce the potential for human
rights violations regarding laborers in the mining industry in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Now highlighting the ever-growing
potential of blockchain technology, Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of
Public Health is working with ConsenSys and New America to design a
platform that brings the benefits to humans directly.
Supply chain management is one of
the most directly applicable industries for blockchain technology.
The networks perfectly integrate other emerging tech like AI and
IoT to create much more efficient systems for transportation, along
with integrated payment processes. However, rather than stopping
there, a group of researchers and students at Harvard thought there
was still more potential.
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Fueled by a grant from the American
government, the the three groups are focusing on alleviating
potential human rights violations of factory workers in Mexico.
They will pilot a system for tracking and assessing “well being” of
the laborers in a clothing manufacturing plant through this year
and 2020. The funding from the government, Levi Strauss Foundation
and Consensys for the pilot totalled $800,000, and is only made
possible by the work done at Harvard before hand to develop the
Well-Being Index.
The Sustainability and Health
Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health’s Health creates a universal benchmark for
assessing workforce well-being and the conditions. The system
provides a workforce-wide view of factory conditions and individual
health and well-being. This deep rooted information is an important
first step to effectively improving the overall labor system in
large factories.
This data comes together as an
index that businesses have already been used in in factories around
the world, including Levi Strauss & Co. since 2015. Nearly
5,000 workers are employed at their Mexico location, and have all
taken the survey. With this new collaboration the ability of the
data to move toward actionable improvements should strongly
increase. The pilot program is already planned for a two year
extension after 2020.
“For the last 25 years, work in
supply chains has been monitored mainly by audits. We know from
research and serious traumatic events that this system alone is not
effective. A distributed system of inquiry on the blockchain that
goes right to the source [workers] offers a new solution. Most
supply chain blockchain use cases are for material tracking, so
leveraging this new technology for the evaluation of the human
condition is an exciting innovation with broad potential for
positive impact on worker well-being worldwide” - Dr. Eileen
McNeely, Director of SHINE at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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