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Jari Ala-Ruona
Jari Ala-Ruona

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Mar 30, 2020

Pivot the world

Economy has just come to a squealing halt. The IMF has received 80 requests for emergency assistance — a domino effect is taking place. The IMF advises governments to spend more to save jobs and businesses. …

Transformative

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Pivot the world
Pivot the world
Transformative

8 min read


Feb 26, 2020

Digitally Sustainable

Key to Sustainable Development is Universal Access to the Internet for Everyone I have been involved in digitalizing Africa with smartphones for the past 10 years — first with some smartphone applications in South Africa on Symbian OS and now it’s all Android. …

Economic Inclusion

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Digitally Sustainable
Digitally Sustainable
Economic Inclusion

3 min read


Sep 14, 2018

MyData, Self-Sovereign Identity, Verifiable claims for financial inclusion

MyData movement is about empowering people with their own data as individuals, groups for better society. The attendees at the MyData 2018 event have discussed multiple topics around personal data. To us domains of identity, trust frameworks, self-sovereign identity standards, ethics of AI, open credit score, and decentralized economy in…

Blockchain

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MyData, Self-Sovereign Identity, Verifiable claims for financial inclusion
MyData, Self-Sovereign Identity, Verifiable claims for financial inclusion
Blockchain

4 min read


Jul 3, 2018

Crypto industry enters early adulthood

Quite a month, this past June of 2018. We participated in events in Helsinki (Ethereum meetup), Oslo (Seed Forum Global) and Gibraltar (TokenMarket 2018 Summit) and had several meetings with advisors, partners and customers in Tallinn and Johannesburg. In some ways it feels like crazy amount of teenage crypto hormones…

Blockchain

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Crypto industry enters early adulthood
Crypto industry enters early adulthood
Blockchain

5 min read


May 31, 2018

Systemic social innovations are required to curb financial and digital exclusion

With my co-founder Joakim we have had busy few weeks following unstealthing of our start-up — Aion Sigma. A road tour of the Nordic capitals of Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Tallinn has been on for a few weeks. …

Blockchain

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Systemic social innovations are required to curb financial and digital exclusion
Systemic social innovations are required to curb financial and digital exclusion
Blockchain

5 min read


May 13, 2018

Similarities in open source projects, social movements and blockchain startups

Some weeks ago we at Aion continued validation of our business by applying for a pitching competition at the Innofrugal 2018 in Helsinki. We wanted to explore the impact investment space, how impact investors view movements and disruptive solutions for emerging markets. Our thesis was that impact investors and Aion…

Impact Investing

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Similarities in open source projects, social movements and blockchain startups
Similarities in open source projects, social movements and blockchain startups
Impact Investing

4 min read


May 4, 2018

Universal, decentralized financial identity - the case for #trustonomics and #trustscore

At the re:publica 2018 conference Valerie Lux, Charleen Fei and Ulrike Otto were on stage to talk about important topics around identity documents and the societal aspects of blockchain. Also, workshops took place sprouting ideas about self sovereign identity as core building block of a more inclusive, more sustainable society. Financial inclusion is slowed down by digital exclusion …

Fintech

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Universal, decentralized financial identity - the case for #trustonomics and #trustscore
Universal, decentralized financial identity - the case for #trustonomics and #trustscore
Fintech

3 min read

Jari Ala-Ruona

Jari Ala-Ruona

18 Followers

@aionsigma - Inspired by innovations with purpose.

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