FoodChain; Blockchain 4 Good | Leigh Jin

10/06/21 • 21 min

Blockchain has far-reaching disruptive potential often focused on charitable works.
Explore the humanitarian efforts of SFSU students leveraging this emerging technology for multiple blockchain projects, all related to blockchain for social good; applying blockchain technology to promote volunteer participation, and food safety monitoring for healthier food donations to hunger-relief charities.

In a conversation with Leigh Jin, Professor of Information Systems and Director of Technology in Business Education Initiative at San Francisco State University, we discover their design thinking methodology that went into building these application prototypes.

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Transcript

Lauren Weymouth (00:00):

Hello, I'm Lauren Weymouth and I lead the UBRI program at Ripple. We're into our fourth academic year of this amazing industry- university collaboration that is driving really interesting resear