Designing Blockchain based Systems to Transform Rural Communities

Chun-Wei Chiang, Eber Betanzos,� Michael Austin, Saiph Savage

Immigrants Give Back to Their Rural Hometowns

7 times than local government budget

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BUT, Impact is limited:

1. Immigrants distrust government and hence only do small things with their rural families.�
2. Government development plans for rural communities that do not address needs of rural communities.

Yevgeny Kuznetsov. 2006. Diaspora networks and the international migration of skills. Washington, DC: World Bank Institute

CivicGov: �Using Blockchain to transform rural communities

Collective Milestone Setting

Cash Flow Visualization

Rural Community Evaluation

• Fundraising
• Address citizens need.

• Provide transparency fiscal report
• Improve accountability

• Public assess period results

Thank you!

Chun-Wei

Email: cc0051@mix.wvu.edu

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Twitter:

@CWC_WV

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Website:

Chunwei.org

Check out: www.infrarrual.com

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