IATI and blockchain technology

@ODIHQ have a Friday lunchtime discussion coming up for folks in London (free!): http://opendata.institute/lunchtime-lectures/friday-lunchtime-lecture-data-infrastructure-technology-are-blockchains-the-answer

Also, some useful reading:

James Smith (Open Data Institute Head of Labs): http://theodi.org/blog/data-infrastructure-technology-blockchains

Jenni Tennison (ODI Technical Director and Deputy CEO): Using blockchains outside of crypto-currencies: http://www.jenitennison.com/2015/05/21/blockchain.html

BBC explanation of blockchain tech (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ky3mDUoh74

[~379]’s work in progress - blockchain as a potential solution for disappearing IATI identifiers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qxzYSfrChWQPLlOiukqOjAITvSwL7VYFiRW-mrHV08Q/edit

All interesting stuff, and great to have a shared place to discuss this emerging technology. Particularly good to read James Smith’s blog on the implications and immutability issues.

Were you able to make the ODI session that you mentioned? If so, would be interesting to hear any notable outcomes…

I write some bits that might be of relevance here: http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2016/01/15/following-the-money-preliminary-remarks-on-iati-traceability/

In case anyone’s interested, I’m helping a nonprofit building a new crowdfunding platform collecting micro-donations for aid organizations involved in crisis response (OneRelief) experiment with using a blockchain ledger behind the scenes to communicate with organizations via exchanging simulated IATI data.