📝 Weekly Progress Update — 6 to 12 Aug
We are running a Myanmar Flood Relief Programme from 13–15 August. Our InfoCorp LATAM team attended AgTech Week — a public-private initiative to explore and share Argentina’s AgTech potential. Further on-the-ground usability testing of CrossPay Mobile app has been delayed due to the flood situation in Myanmar.
Here’s the full Weekly Progress Update.
A. Technical development
Sentinel Chain Development
Our dev team has started testing the different components of the new Sentinel Chain architecture.
CrossPay Mobile App Development
We have released CrossPay version 1.17.2 incorporating important usability updates such as:
(a) List of States/Regions, Districts, Townships has been updated based on new data collected from “Census Atlas Myanmar 2014” and review feedback from our Myanmar team.
(b) Based on the farm owner requirements in Nay Pyi Taw, we have added a new livestock type “Breeding” into the app.
Further on-the-ground usability testing with the farmers in Nay Pyi Taw has been delayed due to the flood situation.
B. Country updates
Myanmar
Myanmar Flood Relief Programme
We invite our community to join us to help the people in Myanmar who have been severely impacted by the torrential floods which have already displaced 150,000 people.
“There are normally floods, but not like this year. This year is the worst ever.”
Myint Myint Than, one of the hundreds taking refuge in a shelter in Bago.
Getting a first-hand experience of this crisis through our operations team in Myanmar, the Sentinel Chain team has decided to personally respond to this emergency. We will be making a 30 ETH donation to an NGO in Myanmar to provide aid to the flood victims. In the spirit of inclusiveness, we are coordinating a small donation drive to extend the opportunity for the community to donate your SENC to support this initiative.
To find out more: https://medium.com/sentinelchain/myanmar-flood-relief-programme-6bcf88af5fc8
Argentina
Our InfoCorp LATAM team attended AgTech Week — Ideas That Feed The World. AgTech Week is a public-private initiative to explore and share Argentina’s AgTech potential. The AgTech Summit in Córdoba, the First National Agtech Congress ever held — featured keynote speakers active in the Blockchain community such as Martin Hagelstrom, IBM Blockchain Executive for Latin America. M. Hagelstrom, responsible for IBM Blockchain market development, strategy and adoption delivered an insightful keynote on “Agribusiness in the era of the Blockchain”.
Sentinel Chain is a blockchain-based international marketplace for cross-border financial services and the world’s first platform to accept the use of livestock as collateral. Taking a unique approach to the last mile problem of financial inclusion, the Sentinel Chain model establishes livestock provenance through the creation of livestock insurance on blockchain — the registration of livestock provenance on blockchain provides the unbanked with a new opportunity: the real possibility of accepting livestock as ‘collateral’ for loans. Sentinel Chain is a project by InfoCorp Technologies
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