United Citizens Organization launches as a blockchain initiative at COP26
A consortium of partners spoke during the COP26 conference about the inception of a new blockchain climate initiative and shared details on its future ambitions. Speaking at a COP26 press conference in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday, a panoply of experts from the tech-environmental sector spoke to global citizens across the world about improving coordination and support for climate action with blockchain technology.The GloCha United Citizens Organization (UCO) for Action for Climate Empowerment has been launched at COP26 as a blockchain-based quasi-international organization located in....
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The Water Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing sustainable water projects to sub-Saharan African communities, has launched a new bold initiative, with the help of bitcoin. The organization has introduced a new program named "The Water Promise," which combines high-tech remote monitoring with local repair teams to ensure that water is reliable and self-sustainable in the long term. Each bitcoin donation will be allocated to one of 42 new sensor-enabled water projects in Kenya managed by the organization. The Water Project team is looking for donations as little as 0.196 BTC to....