Crypto Institutions

The first article is posted on Engineering for Change! Some minor edits to the first article and the other two articles will be posted soon. All three can also be accessed here.

It began by scouring the internet for ideas to apply automation to peace engineering. Information automation rose to the top because physical technologies are often too expensive and technocratic when not designed by the end user. Thinking for a long time about how advanced technology could actually change the fundamental problems that lead to poverty, violence, corruption, etc, I began to develop ideas which I later realized are 'self-sovereign identity.' I also realized how cryptography in the form of differential privacy, zero-knowledge, and distributed databases (blockchain) have the potential to remake social institutions in more effective, fair and democratic ways.

Big thanks to Joe Hughes of Drexel Peace Engineering for guiding me through this research. I wouldn't have made it this far without your encouragement and expert nudges to the right next steps.