RfC: Ideas for Venezuela

Request for Comment

Request for Comment from the community about how Universe may assist Venezuelan's with their quest in a regime change and rebuilding their government and economy.

I attended a Galaxy Digital event last night and ran into Santiago Siri, Founder of Democracy Earth. https://twitter.com/santisiri. Santiago used to work out of our offices at Blockstack.

@dant and I attended a “Help Venezuela” workshop at Consensus on Tuesday morning. Someone from Democracy Earth was on one of the 3 panels they had. DE is looking to provide Venezuelans with decentralized voting. They currently use Blockstack ID’s for their identity.

Dan and I were chatting and thinking of ways Universe can assist Venezuelans with ID’s and at the event last night, I asked Santiago how we can help and he said we should get together and brainstorm.

One ambitious long term goal is to provide them with decentralized Blockstack/Universe ID cards. Physical cards.. and digital cards.

I know David Kelts from https://www.idemia.com/ and can reach out to him. David produces 48 states driver’s license ID cards, all of Canada’s and quite a few of Europe’s as well. I’ve had conversations with David at past IIW https://internetidentityworkshop.com/ events about this.

I'd love for everyone to assist.

Consensus session

Tue May 14/ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM ( 2 Hours )

Not the Petro: Bottom-Up Blockchain Ideas for Venezuela

Room A, Concourse Level

Cryptocurrency has become a lifeline for many Venezuelans seeking respite from the country's dramatic collapse. Hear first-hand from the projects operating on the front lines, and contribute to a broader discussion on how blockchain technology can help rebuild Venezuela's economy and institutions.

Workshop

Speakers

Joe Waltman Executive Director GiveCrypto.org Speaker

Ruben Galindo CEO Airtm Speaker

Eduardo Medina Lead Developer Democracy Earth Foundation Speaker

Mariano Di Pietrantonio Community Lead Latin America MakerDAO Speaker

Jonathan Kohn CEO and Co-founder Cripto Conserje Speaker

Daniel Knobelsdorf Blockchain Strategist Kruger Corp Speaker

Moises Rendon Associate Director & Associate Fellow Center for Strategic & International Studies Moderator

Bailey Reutzel Multimedia Editor CoinDesk Moderator

Yaya Fanusie Senior Felllow Foundation for Defense of Democracies Speaker

Fernando Cutz Senior Associate The Cohen Group Speaker

Elena Sofia Giralt Meetup Organizer Blockchain Latinx Speaker

Alex Gladstein Chief Strategy Officer Human Rights Foundation Speaker

Daniel Sierra Public Policy Advisor Venezuelan Embassy Speaker

Armando Armas Congressman Venezuela National Assembly Speaker

Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian Director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity Organization of American States Speaker

Josh Swihart Vice President, Marketing and Business Development Electric Coin Company Speaker

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