Biodiversity Funders Group
Eachmile Partner Mark Kaplan presents Fishcoin
I recently attended the Biodiversity Funders Group (“BFG”) Annual Meeting to present Fishcoin, participate on the technology panel and a smaller aquaculture working group. The meeting was attended by leading Marine philanthropic organizations like the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Oak Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, The Ocean Foundation; The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, implementing organizations like Rare and WWF along with USAID and NOAA. The relevance of this event was for us to get feedback from industry insiders and prospective partners on our proposition when presented cold.
The background people had was either press about cryptocurrency, the IBM advertisement about supply chains or the other Enterprise IT advertisement from another private company or corporate IT department selling their private use of blockchain. We received very positive feedback about the Fishcoin proposition to leverage blockchain to enable incentives for data entry and sharing. There was very little knowledge about blockchain in the room, but everyone had heard about it and was enthusiastic for the presentation.
It was a privilege to be able to educate the room about the Fishcoin Network use of blockchain to enable tokens as incentives for logging and sharing immutable data across an ecosystem of partners. Further, I described how the Fishcoin Network is designed to be truly distributed with data ownership based on permissions across the ecosystem. How Fishcoin will be open for Dapps to build businesses on the platform versus using our blockchain to aggregate data to our private and proprietary central database.
What is the Biodiversity Funders Group?
The BFG has a mission to support and grow a community of biodiversity grantmakers that pursues complementary and collaborative strategies. They achieve their vision for just, healthy, and sustainable future for all life on Earth supported by an effective philanthropic sector. They do this by:
- Sharing knowledge and strategies
- Building partnerships
- Identifying needs and emerging issues
- Creating a forum for leadership
Why Were We There?
Fishcoin’s open ecosystem enables access to data while protecting privacy and security. This will help buyers, NGO partners, governments and supply chain stakeholders have a better understanding of their fisheries and aquaculture. This data will enable these stakeholders make better decisions about nutrition and food security, improving the livelihoods of fishers and farmers, and the sustainability of our oceans.
We look forward to continuing to advocate for open and distributed uses of blockchain for the benefit of all partners in the ecosystem, across the industry, for the livelihoods of people who work in the seafood supply chain, for improving the lives of the people living in fishing and farming communities, and for the food security of responsible consumers.
Interested in becoming a Fishcoin partner?
Companies and organizations throughout the seafood industry are signing up almost daily to be rollout partners in the Fishcoin ecosystem. If you would like to know more about joining our community of partners please read through our white paper, and contact our team.
