Publicism

Three years ago, blockchain was only discussed by a select group of hard-core IT aficionados. Today, almost $1 billion has been invested in blockchain start-ups. But despite the interest and intense work, no one has an end game in sight. There’s no killer app or key business proposition on the horizon yet. Financial institutions and fintechs recognise the potential of blockchain technology. But how will – or should – it be applied to other sectors? And better still, how will it support a better society?

Soon after founding the social enterprise Publicism we noticed academic experts donors, and sponsors are willing to support our goals. So we started off in september 2016 as an international research project, researching:

the possibilities of blockchain supporting a decentralized news medium.
the anti-censorship possibilities of blockchain technology. – the possibilities of anonymity and pseudonymity.
the possibilities of safe monetization for journalists.
The next phase – after our research – will be the creation of a dashboard that will make it easy for journalists to entrance and use a safe blockchain environment – in order to publish their content and data attached to that blockchain environment. After AB-testing based on the prototype. We aim to launch this dashboard first quarter of 2017.