Open Conversations: From the Ground Up: Localizing Blockchain for Real-World Impact (Anke Liu)

Financial inclusion is an interesting problem because it touches on so many different facets of people lives my name is analu I'm the ecosystem growth need at the Stella development foundation the Stella development foundation is a nonprofit founded in 2014 to support the growth of the Stellar Network and Stellar is an open- Source layer one decentralized blockchain network designed for everyday Financial Services people need financial services and capital to be able to to pay for food be able to like pay for Health Services we in the US and in Europe and elsewhere we don't really like know what Financial Collision sometimes really is because we have access to anything like banking lending uh borrowing but this is not the case for many people like in the world there are 1.7 billion unbanked people in the world at the Stell development foundation we believe that empowering communities locally where they are can actually provide real change and that uh ethos is shared with uh the funding the comment as well David first came to me with the idea of like hey I want to be able to provide like service to like displ people and like specifically also like Burmese communities that are like spread across southeast Asia that currently like have limited access to uh the financial system and just to like social services and and Health Services so we decided that we were going to use specifically The Residency and the design jam and hackathon to really like IDE ideate collaborate with like local like refugees humanitarian Aid Partners on the ground to be able to ideate and get endorsement on such Solutions and Pilots