Explore Decentralized Tech with Content from FFDW and Beyond

This article dives into issues that threaten the humanitarian supply chain (i.e., lack of accountability and trust, lack of transparency, high fees, misaligned incentives, and coordination challenges) and looks at eight use cases of Web3 technology within this context.

This blog post announces a multi-year commitment of FFDW to the Starling Lab, a research center tackling the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in the most sensitive digital records of our human history.

HRDAG, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, harnesses the power of statistics to address human rights violations and promote accountability. By embracing decentralized web (DWeb) technologies like Filecoin and IPFS, HRDAG secures and preserves critical human rights data resiliently. This enables advocates and human rights defenders to access verifiable information, empowering them to drive positive social impact and promote justice worldwide.

This article discusses how blockchain technology and web3 tools are used to preserve and verify evidence of war crimes, as demonstrated by The Starling Lab's submission to the International Criminal Court using a blockchain-verified chain of custody. This marks the first evidence submitted using blockchain technology, ensuring its authenticity, preventing tampering or loss, and continuing its digital preservation. This approach can enhance transparency through provenance and accountability in legal proceedings related to war crimes.

This news article documents issues surrounding the fires consuming Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland. The photo presentation in this story was produced in collaboration with The Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford University and the University of Southern California. The photos are cryptographically authenticated and verify when and where they were taken. Captured data also includes confirmation that the images have not been edited, improving data integrity.

This Emmy-nominated investigative piece published by Rolling Stone, in collaboration with Starling Labs, explores unsolved war crimes in Bosnia. The images have authentication certificates, including cryptographic verification and hosting on multiple decentralized storage networks. This is one of the first deployments of photojournalism on the Dweb, ensuring that we have an irrefutable record of these events.

This article explores use cases surrounding data storage on the decentralized web. It explains how universities and organizations leverage decentralized storage to preserve useful information, such as research data and open courseware. It also addresses some of the challenges associated with the use of blockchain-based storage.

Innovative companies and individuals use blockchain to transform the world's biggest challenges into humanity's biggest triumphs. This webpage lists examples of how blockchain is used for social good (e.g., verifying environmental impact, supply chain verification, and micro-financing).