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School districts could negotiate with a group of screened Arcade City drivers
for hard to serve aspects of pupil transportation (e.g., special needs, isolated
students, work-based learning).
9. Prepaid cards. Blockchains can help retailers offer secure gift cards and
loyalty programs without a middleman. Gyft, an online platform for buying,
sending, and redeeming gift cards, partnered with blockchain infrastructure
provider Chain to run gift cards for thousands of small businesses on the
blockchain, in a program called Gyft Block. Loyyal makes loyalty incentives
easily exchangeable across different sectors.
Prepaid cards could be used by cities, schools, and families to purchase out of
school learning experiences (e.g., an LRNG card) and associated
transportation (#7).
DLT could be used to power school stores and student businesses. In some
cases, a global network would be attractive, but in others, a permissioned
(private) ledger could limit the scope of a school economy.
14. Charity. For charitable donations, DLT provides the ability to precisely
track donations and, in some cases, impact. For example, GiveTrack, from
the BitGive Foundation, is a blockchain-based donation platform that
provides the ability to transfer, track, and provide a permanent record of
charitable financial transactions across the globe.
16. Governance. The benefits of using blockchain for smart contracts and
verifiable transactions can also be applied toward making business
accounting more transparent. The Boardroom app, for example, provides a
governance framework and app enabling companies to manage smart
contracts on the public and permissioned Ethereum blockchains.
17. Libraries. DLT could help libraries expand their services by building an
enhanced metadata archive, developing a protocol for supporting
community-based collections, and facilitating more effective management of
digital rights. San Jose State’s School of Information received a $100K grant
from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund a year-long
project exploring the potential of blockchain technology for information
services.
Authorship allows writers to publish their work on the platform. Readers can
purchase the books from the platform using Authorship Tokens (ATS), an
Ethereum-based cryptocurrency, and writers get 90% of royalties in ATS.
Authors own the copyright to their work, so they have the freedom to publish
and distribute it elsewhere.
20. Bonds. The World Bank is using blockchain to sell a bond. Moving the
process to the blockchain could cut costs and speed up trading for both bond
issuers and investors. School districts could benefit from faster and cheaper
bond sales.
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