It makes me sad that we live on a planet where out of the aprox 7 billion humans, 700 million of them are chronically undernourished.. thats 10% of the world's population going to bed hungry everynight...How can we let this happen in 2017? humans are spending trillions of dollars, trillions of work hours, and using up whole lives developing highly complex technology from microprocessor factories to CERN to our space program, and yet we still allow 10% of our fellow humans to go to bed hungry every night just because they can't AFFORD to buy food on a planet where food comes out of the ground for free? Money is the only problem for them...We have PLENTY of food in the world...but people just dont have the money to buy
OR arent even allowed to have the tiny amount of land they need to grow it! Short of land redistribution, we should develop blockchain systems to distribute cryptocurrency directly to people who need it the most!
So these 700 million people go to bed hungry every night and thousands a day starve to death and its because we have failed our fellow humans..the system has failed these people...they DESERVE to have as much food as they need and more in a world where we have a massive food surplus! This is not communism or socialism or some sort of one world zeitgeist "global resource management" directive....No I simply want humanity to take care of the 10% that cant afford to feed itself
I believe it is just wrong to deny people the basic necessities of civilization, food (and shelter but I'll discuss that below) , just because they cant afford it? I propose we solve these problems using smartphones, the blockchain, crypto currencies and super cheap computers like the $8 CHIP etc...
or even BETTER the $5 Rasberry Pi!
Look at this amazing website I found with all the components from $20 LCD's that just display text for maybe hardware bitcoin wallets, or we make our own little tablet things with TFT full color touchscreens fo0r like $30 and a $5 Rasberry Pi!
or we just get obamaphones that peopel dont use and maybe get them donated, but this adafruit website is making me excited, makes me want to design a cheap android tablet or smartphone made just for keeping bitcoin but which can do everything else...like hardware bitcoin wallets!
Like this beautiful bitcoin hardware wallet design "Case" from circle
Or get already on the market working designs like the Trezzor! they are $100 but are hardware bitcoin wallets!
Or this from butterfly labs
makes me think we should just use already made cheap android tablets and smartphones...even teh cheapest $10-$30 smartphones available today or the $20-$40 Android Tablets are still pretty god and do everything you would need liek maps, youtube, webbrowsing, etc...
.But if we could get 700 million hungry peopel a tablet and explain to them to NOT trade the device for food because they will need it to receive more crypto currency in the future....and how to use the bitcoin or other crypto currency wallet that will come with it, to buy food, maybe allow them to recharge the bitcoins from some website they can sign into whenever they are near wifi and maybe we can use those Google wifi baloons to broadcast wifi to places in Africa without any internet..And because of this maybe we need to have the phones and tablets all come with cheap $1 gps chips and small cheap 4g radio antenna's to connect with whatever type of floating baloon internet system that Google pioneered, remmeber this?
Or we can use Amazon's idea of autonomous blimp/airships to broadcast internet to places where people are poorest and undernourished the most, maybe make automated food deliveries to the worst hotspots for global hunger, w
Also how about we use drones to deliver them food? And we incentive the people running drone food deliveries by allowing them to be paid in a blockchain bitcoin like crypto currency , people can donate and know that 100% of their money is going directly to people who need it because we can make it all open and seriously half this battle is getting internet coverage toi every last place one arth, and through WIRELESS mobile cell phone tower grid style systems OR googles BALOONS we can even just use the drones to make regular food deliveries to any area on earth where peope are going hungry , and for individuals spread out en mass it will be a challenge getting them all online, but remember, here is the stats on how many people are online, (in 2015 over 3.4 billion! and 2.5 billion have smartphones/tablets and thats 2015 so imagine in 2 years we must have even more !!
In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries.
We find the cheapest android phones or tablets or make very cheap android smartphone or tablets using rasberry pi and cheap LCDs etc or simply buy up all the cheap obamaphones people get for free in the US...you can get millions of those things...and honestly you will only need to aquire 700 million, and there are 2.5 billion smartphone
users on earth already and estimates say there are many billions of smartphones on earth, like cars there may be more than people..And once you make sure the worlds poorest people all have smartphones/android tablets etc, then you are ALSO giving them the opportunity to use those smartphones or tablets to post to local classified listings to find work, to start a business, to find local microloans or find them online! And we must make sure that with the smartphones preloaded with bitcoin and crypto currency wallet software, it must also come with a free 3g or 4g or even 2.5 g edge network subscription to a low level data plant to allow them all to have a basic data plan to make blockchain transactions AND to be able to go look for work, start a business, post to social media asking for help with a small business plan they can outline and post for everyone to see! We can do SO much for the worlds most poor if we just make sure we get a smartphone or android tablet in everyone of their hands! It's the most important tool they could ever have to pull themselves up from poverty, especially now with mobile blockchain apps! And there are now more smartphones than people just like we have more cars than people!
"we're over-producing vehicles to the point that there are now more cars than people in the world. According to A Plus, there are 10 billion cars in the world, yet only a small portion of those are active and on the road." -elitedaily.com
and by 2014 there was officially for the first time more smartphones/tablets/devices than people...This is just proving my point that now that everyone WITH money has had multiple generations of smartphones, that we can donate our OLD smartphones to people who REALLY could use them!
"Feb 25, 2014 - There are almost as many cell-phone subscriptions (6.8 billion) as there are people on this earth (seven billion)—and it took a little more than 20 years for that to happen. In 2013, there were some 96 cell-phone service subscriptions for every 100 people in the world."
"Oct 7, 2014 - For the first time ever there are more gadgets in the world than there are people,
For the first time ever there are more gadgets in the world than there are people, including a growing number that only communicate with other machines, according to data from digital analysts at GSMA Intelligence. The number of active mobile devices and human beings crossed over somewhere around the 7.19 billion mark.Oct 7, 2014"
Ok so this PROVES my point that we ALREADY have made so many phones that there is MORE than enough for every last ONE of the 700 million chronically undernourished people on Earth! And they also need battery chargers, they should be given a FREE phone and FREE battery usb chargers, a couple each because heck, i just found out theres more smartphones than people since 3 years ago now! Theres probably twice as many now since 3 years have gone by! WOW So THAT just proves my point...They need a FREE subscription we should find a way to PAY these peoples Mobile data subscriptions and give them just enough to use bitcoin or crypto currency wallet app,but they have at least 3g and even 4 g almost everywhere on earth now honestly...we shouldf try to make sure those 700 million chronically undernourished people each have one of the over 10 billion smartphones and tablets we have
..You take cheap smartphones/tablets and load them up with bitcoin wallet apps and have them signed up to a database and directly send every last one of the 700 million hungry people in the world a daily allowance of crypto currency to use to buy food with, and this wil help us map out the networks we will need to expand to get the highest possible amount of
people fed using existing food distribution networks..
Once everyone has one of these cheap android devices we will end that barrier to entry to overcome hunger which is a cost barrier, by giving a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME but ONLY for starving people! I think thats pretty fair!I really think we could also help these 700 million chronically undernourished because they also happen to be the same group that is the worlds most poverty effected group...These people have the least amount of money on earth and they will be able to save their crypto currency which will be more valuable in the future, and with 700 million users it will be the largest blockchain in the world i would think....and it would have 7000 times more users than the 1 million bitcoin users! So if we made a brand new crypto currency for hungry people it could start out as very cheap and we can maybe keep savings accounts for them whioch we can send to them after theyve ben kept well fed,
direct basic income food allowance....
Humans can achieve such mind boggling complex things, just look at a computer's central processing chip...you can't even imagine how complex and detailed and intricate that thing us unless youre one of the few people in the almost priest like class of CPU designers and Intel/AMD engineers who actually do think about how they work...But for
most of us, that is just a great example of how advanced modern technology has gotten
in 2017..the computers in our pockets called smartphones are the key....
Here is a great website for Rasberry Pi $5 computers and accessories including cheap lcd screens and other peripherals and raw materials for inventors! We should build a dirt cheap bitcoin wallet device with 4g connection to a low data 4g free subscription to allow them to connect these hypothetical bitcoin or blockchain crypto currency (Like a Hypothetical Hunger coin Charity crypto blockchain) to collect their daily or weekly or monthly food allowance...
OK So upon further research I found a handful of new blockchain projects aiming to help homeless and hungry people...
One is @BlockCrushr https://www.blockcrushr.com/ending-homeless-hunger-with-the-blockchain
"BlockCrushr Labs is incredibly excited to announce today our prototype and submission of Hypergive for consideration in the UAE Blockchain Virtual GovHack. Hypergive is a system that allows communities to crowdfund secure digital food wallets for homeless and hungry people, tackling the dual problems of donor cynicism and a cashless society.
BlockCrushr Labs say they have a rock solid solution to revolutionize P2P (person to person) street giving, using “Blockchain” technology to ensure that funds given to buy meals and other necessities are spent for their intended purpose. The system addresses diversion of funds and the declining prevalence of people carrying cash, by allowing people to anonymously load “digital food wallets” of homeless or marginalized people in their neighborhoods through common payment methods such as smartphones, credit cards and Paypal. The “smart wallets” can be spent securely at participating food retailers."
Another is World Food program's blockchain program
"The World Food Programme (WFP) is testing the use of blockchain, a bold technology that can potentially transform the fight against hunger. Blockchain technology, most famously associated with the crypto-currency Bitcoin, offers unique opportunities for humanitarian agencies to provide the best-possible assistance to vulnerable people around the world.
In recent years, WFP has significantly scaled up its cash transfers. In areas where markets and services are well functioning, these transfers are often more effective and efficient at improving livelihoods. Not only do they allow recipients to choose which food to buy, they also inject much-needed cash into local economies.
WFP’s Innovation Accelerator is therefore exploring approaches to delivering cash-based transfers in order to reduce costs and risks, while improving data protection and speeding up delivery.From sandbox to field: The first, successful test at field level of WFP’s blockchain innovation — called ‘Building Blocks’ — was carried out in January 2017 deep in the heart of Sindh province, Pakistan. As vulnerable families received WFP food and cash assistance, the transactions were authenticated and recorded on a public blockchain through a smartphone interface. Transaction reports generated were then used to match the disbursements with entitlements."
"Blockchain can revolutionize the way WFP delivers assistance to vulnerable families across the globe. It can bring us closer to the people we serve and allow us to respond much faster,” said Farman Ali, from the WFP Karachi provincial office.
Using the lessons learned in this first phase in Pakistan, WFP is now moving towards a full-scale pilot.
Immense potential Blockchain has the potential to allow faster intervention in some of the world’s most difficult environments.
For example, in vulnerable countries lacking financial infrastructure, blockchain could help humanitarian actors roll out life-saving cash assistance in a matter of days when disasters strike. Blockchains can be seen as a foundational technology akin to the internet, upon which many different applications can be built. Just as email was the first widespread application of the internet, payments have been the first widespread application of blockchains. And just as the internet rapidly expanded beyond email, blockchain applications have already expanded beyond payments. WFP is monitoring the scope for applications beyond cash-based transfers, identity management, and supply chain operations. The full potential of blockchains can only be realized if all humanitarian actors collaborate around this platform."
WOW So They already ARE using blockchain as we speak to help give direct digital cash transactions to vulnerable people in developing nations! This is going to be huge!
And this new app helps redistribute uneaten food to the hungry!
Jason King's @UnSung project http://www.unsung.org/ "This is the sharing economy to redistribute existing abundance to those who need it most."Jason King has founded Unsung, an app-based service, which allows businesses to arrange pickup of food that could go to waste, but instead is being delivered to those who need it the most."
This is very promising too, putting food on the blockchain, allowing people to gleam all the uneaten food, even an app to allow people to take their leftovers from home or at a restaurant which they dont want to eat, and allow them to box it up in a doggy bag and leave it in a special donation bin area that a homeless person can check for food whenever they need it ...and good charitable people can simple leave their uneaten food in neatly wrapped packages or doggy bags in these little boxes, you could even use old news paper and free magazine stands that have stacks of free magazines, that you can open and take 1? Those would be great for stashing food in for people who are hungry! Anyway this system has a lot of potential! We should all support UnSung app! It's even better than the idea I had to use large military grade Predator drones but to deliver food to the most hungry!
Another problem I want to solve this way just in America is the homelessness and how 500,000 homeless people and 100,000 chronically homeless people aren't allowed to live in a house like everyone else because again they can't afford it..its not because they ran out of homes, no just like with the almost billion hungry people in the world, its not because we dont have enough food or houses its because they simply dont have enough money to buy the food or rent a place to live in....Imagine an AirBNB type system to allow homeless people to acquire credits they can only spend on housing or hotels or hostels etc...Here is a campaign by AirBNB to bring attention to new york city's 60,000 homeless.
I imagine a system that can allow land owners and real estate investors or even people who own warehouses that are vacant and never used, or vacant lots, to allow homeless people to setup tents or cots to allow them to have a place to finally stay and settle..maybe in exchange the renter or land owner or property owner/manager can receive a type of credit that can go towards a blockchain credit, that they can get paid for, like a real life version of Siacoin or StorJ x coin or Golum
Or imagine a system that allows you to rent not computer space, but real life space, in exchange for crypto currency, and maybe we can allow an air bnb type system for open lots and warehouses or places homeless can go during rainstorms etc, i'll flesh this one out later as it seems more challenging but same idea core concept as HungerCoin, maybe HoboCoin...ALSO we should think about donating super cheap electric scooters or simple electric bicycles or bicycle kits to make any cheap bicycle electric and viable transportation for the poor or homeless in the developed and developing world.
And for shelter we need to just built tons of this IKEA designed refugee housing shelter that can be shipped in flat packs and assembled with zero tools! This would solve many of the homelessness in America and refugee migrant crisis in Europe and the middle east/north Africa.
And then finance or microloans would be another way to speed up the process of ending world poverty!
And like with everything else it touches, the Blockchain is revolutionizing micro finance and micro loans to the third world and even within the first world, helping to fight poverty all around the world especially since keeping bitcoin or other crypto currencies are more or less immune to inflation, the secret tax on the 99% .
Map showing showing percentage of adults who do NOT use formal or semi formal financial services...they are like users who are RIPE for bitcoin usage! Future bitcoin and block chain crypto currency users!
And if we start using Steemit for Crowdfunding by posting ideas like I am doing here, and asking for upvotes as donations to create a small fund to get this idea off the ground by paying for programmers and development, etc, we could even break into the whole kickstarter, gofundme, indiegogo Crowfunding scene by using Steemit for Crowdfunding!