Episode 46 - Tokenizing Social Impact Pt. 3 - Smart contacts, impact tokens, and the oracle problem – how do we reconcile them? Ft. Michael Cooper from Panagora Group

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In this episode, we welcome back Michael Cooper, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Panagora Group, to continue our discussion on social tokens and how to effectively monitor impact, and breakdown the Oracle Problem, a complex challenge that can limit the potential of social tokens.

Part I - An introduction to social tokens

Part II - Fishcoin and “Best Fit” tokens

About Michael and Panagora Group

The Panagora Group is a leader in providing evidence driven innovation in social impact to the United States Agency for International Development and is actively building the tools for effective and ethical digital impact. Along with colleagues from the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, Notre Dame and Cardiff Universities, Michael has recently published a paper that explores the use of tokens to achieve the behaviors necessary for social impact, which can be found HERE.

In his role with Panagora group, Michael works with foreign assistance providers from various U.S. federal agencies, the United Nations and World Bank in designing and learning from social impact interventions. His mandate is to build evidence to improve the design and management of social impact interventions using government funds. He has worked in 27 different countries and completed fellowships with the University of Notre Dame on the use of data science in decision making and is now focusing on building the initial learning agendas and protocols for optimizing the use of blockchain technology for social impact.

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