2019 Commons Foundation Donation Campaign
The Commons Foundation is dedicated to creating a commons ecosystem by developing and supporting sustainable socio/psychological changes based on commons philosophies for culture, economics, governance, and social models.
This year, the Commons Foundation plans to launch a new campaign using blockchain to support those who practice the commons spirit and to establish a transparent and sound donation culture by sharing knowledge.
The organization that’s going to do this donation campaign with Commons Foundation is the ‘Yuhengsa’, which means ‘people seeking the happiness of abandoned animals’ in Korean. ‘Yuhengsa’ is a non-profit organization formed by individuals willing to volunteer for abandoned animals. Volunteers gather on the street near Noksapyeong Station in Yongsan-gu, Seoul every Saturday to conduct an adoption campaign for abandoned animals.
Animals that have been rescued can be adopted if they have been in the shelter for 10 days. (The abandoned animals can stay at the local government provided abandoned animal protection center, but they can be euthanized if the owner does not visit or if they are not adopted within 10 days of the mandatory protection period.)
The company is operated by peer to peer methods and does not go through a specific group or institution when adopting animals. People who want to adopt abandoned animals have to meet volunteers face to face. The donated items or money are managed transparently and the details of their use are disclosed on their social media channels.
The donation will be raised by using MicroBitcoin which was developed based on blockchain technology and represents decentralized P2P transactions and transparency.
MicroBitcoin is an open source community. MicroBitcoin’s ecosystem is built by each individual who contributes to MicroBitcoin’s protocol, application, and service levels.
In order to facilitate smooth participation of individuals and groups in the donation campaign and its transparency, volunteers who agree with the commons’ implementation and ‘Behind.io’ which acts as a practical platform, will join the donation process such as exchanging MicroBitcoin to KRW, purchasing goods, its delivery and etc.
Behind.io is a decentralized P2P exchange and it ensures more secure services to end users and transparency between individual transactions. Behind.io will provide an escrow service to exchange an amount of MicroBitcoin donated from donors into Korean Won.
The Commons Foundation is able to implement the transparent donation campaign using blockchain technology with Yuhengsa and Behind.io by making donors check whether donations have been used properly for abandoned animals or not, so it will make sure it’s transparent and trustworthy.
The campaign will be a great opportunity to establish a sustainable donation culture and support the people who practice the commons spirit.
