Blockchain can make public welfare more fair and transparent
Editor's Note: This article comes fromChain reference (ID: lianneican), Author: Internal Reference Jun, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
Editor's Note: This article comes from
Chain reference (ID: lianneican)
, Author: Internal Reference Jun, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
The epidemic affects the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. On the one hand, the angels in white who are fighting on the front line are doing their best, on the other hand, there is a shortage of protective equipment in front-line hospitals; on the other hand, donations from all over the world are pouring in, and on the other hand, protective materials are in urgent need in various parts of Hubei... All these have pushed the Wuhan Red Cross Society to the forefront.
The 350 tons of vegetables donated from Shouguang, Shandong to Wuhan, Hubei, stirred up waves with one stone. "Why are the vegetables donated by Shouguang sold?" "Why is the money donated to the Red Cross?" "Is the Red Cross involved in the reselling of charitable materials?" Netizens raised various questions, triggering a frenzy of public opinion on the Internet.
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On January 30, a doctor at Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital asked for help online, saying that all supplies in Union Medical College Hospital were about to run out, and he begged the society to help, and the postage can be paid on delivery, and emphasized, "It's not an emergency! It's gone!!" 12:55 a.m. At the end of the day, the official website of the Red Cross Society of Hubei Province announced the use of 17 donated materials. It shows that Wuhan Ren'ai Hospital, which focuses on infertility diagnosis and treatment, received 16,000 N95 donated masks. The Union Hospital, one of the 61 fever clinics in Wuhan, only received 3,000 masks. Some netizens questioned that the distribution of donated materials by the Red Cross Society of Hubei Province was unreasonable.
Public welfare pain
On January 28, according to People's Daily, in order to help the people of Wuhan tide over the difficulties, Shandong Shouguang donated 350 tons of fresh vegetables for free, and Shandong promised to continue to supply Wuhan with high-quality and cheap vegetables for 10-15 days. The 350-ton disaster relief train traveled day and night to Wuhan. And what happened after that became more and more magical. According to the Wuhan Bureau of Commerce, the 350 tons of vegetables donated by Shouguang for free will be sold at a low price in Wuhan, and all sales proceeds will be donated to the Wuhan Red Cross Society. Where did the money go? At noon on January 30, the Wuhan Red Cross Society urgently issued a statement: The Wuhan Red Cross Society has not received a cash donation of 350 tons of Shouguang vegetables. Moreover, it stated in its statement that it is currently only receiving urgently needed medical supplies related to epidemic prevention and control. So who's lying about where the cash went for 350 tons of fresh vegetables?
On the evening of January 29, a donation refund form issued by the Hubei Red Cross Foundation was questioned by netizens as fraudulent, triggering heated discussions on the Internet. That night, the foundation deleted Weibo. On the morning of the 30th, he posted on Weibo again, saying that due to a work mistake yesterday, the "sub-branch" of the receipt was written as "Zhixing", and now he has communicated with the finance and the bank. The correct receipt and the donation of the Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation will be announced later.
On January 30, a doctor at Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital asked for help online, saying that all supplies in Union Medical College Hospital were about to run out, and he begged the society to help, and the postage can be paid on delivery, and emphasized, "It's not an emergency! It's gone!!" 12:55 a.m. At the end of the day, the official website of the Red Cross Society of Hubei Province announced the use of 17 donated materials. It shows that Wuhan Ren'ai Hospital, which focuses on infertility diagnosis and treatment, received 16,000 N95 donated masks. The Union Hospital, one of the 61 fever clinics in Wuhan, only received 3,000 masks. Some netizens questioned that the distribution of donated materials by the Red Cross Society of Hubei Province was unreasonable.
These allegations are very specific, and the Hubei Red Cross made specific explanations. Netizens summed up a few words after reading it: not serious, inaction, and irresponsible.
On February 1, Hubei Province held a press conference on the prevention and control of pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus infection. At the press conference, a reporter asked about the material supply of the Red Cross Society. Li Qiang, a member of the party group of the Wuhan Municipal Government, responded that donations from the Red Cross Society are an important channel to meet the needs of medical supplies, especially in the prevention and control of the epidemic. ① An important reason is that consumption is greater than supply. ②The Red Cross publishes urgently needed materials on its official website, and the donated materials do not correspond well to these urgently needed materials in terms of varieties, models, and standards. ③Of course, there are some gaps in our work, such as the turnover is not fast enough, and the allocation is not timely enough. These are the things we need to continuously improve in our work.
In the current epidemic situation, it is a race against time, and speed is life. Faced with the crisis of trust in charities, some netizens suggested that they could start a live webcast to broadcast the work process of the Wuhan Red Cross Society, and also broadcast the process of applying for the allocation of materials from the Health Commission at any time. It is convenient for the people of the whole country to supervise at any time, and it is open and transparent.
Ge Yunsong, a professor at Peking University Law School, also wrote that the civil affairs department can coordinate active charitable organizations to build a platform with reliable technology and easy-to-use, which can aggregate their respective information and provide a platform for institutions and individuals in need to seek help. Provide effective information for donation intentions and charitable organizations' decisions. Charitable organizations are required to hand over corresponding funds and materials to five institutions, who will carry out targeted donations. The increased information communication, material inventory and delivery, etc. are completely unnecessary.
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Public welfare on the chain
From the Guo Meimei incident to this turmoil, the credibility of public welfare has always been the key to criticism. The lack of credibility stems from the unpredictable people's hearts, but also from the opacity of information. Instead of spending energy and time speculating on the right and wrong of public welfare, it is better to let the machine judge.
As we all know, blockchain technology has four major advantages: decentralization, openness and transparency, information traceability, and automatic execution through smart contracts. These four advantages just correspond to solve the problem that the original charity project was criticized by people.
Public welfare chaining is more fair. The blockchain can distribute information related to charitable public welfare projects on each node of the network. At present, there is no technology that can tamper with more than 51% of the node data on the entire network at the same time, which prevents a certain organization or individual from manipulating a charitable public welfare project for themselves. seek profit.
By purchasing cryptocurrencies issued by the blockchain platform or using other cryptocurrencies to make donations, this is probably the earliest record of public welfare introducing blockchain. Donating through the blockchain can not only eliminate the hidden danger of misappropriation of charitable funds, remove suspicion of charities, but also expand donation channels, which is a great help to the development of charity and public welfare.
Public welfare on-chain is more transparent. Unknown whereabouts have always been one of the pain points of public welfare and charity, which not only aroused mutual suspicion, but also gave some people an opportunity to take advantage of. Therefore, the use of blockchain to trace the source of donations has become an important means of public welfare and charity.
Since all transactions in the blockchain are broadcast across the network, and each node will receive and record it on the ledger, this makes the blockchain have a traceable function. Relevant persons can query and trace each transaction. In this way, we can know who is the corresponding recipient of each donation, how it is used, how many times it has been distributed, how effective the rescue is, etc., and we can query and trace the relevant responsible persons point-to-point.
Public welfare on-chain is simpler. Not only can it improve the credibility of the platform, but blockchain technology can also simplify the intermediate process and reduce the operating costs of charity.
Blockchain is a distributed storage ledger with superior sharing functions. Share the information of public welfare and charity projects through the blockchain, unite with organizations that have Internet fundraising authority on the relevant network, and connect with civil affairs departments, hospitals and other precise poverty alleviation information, so that the entire rescue process can be online and the line can be reduced. Lower operating costs.
At the same time, the use of blockchain smart contracts solves the problems of complex processes and black-box operations in traditional charity projects. We only need to set the relevant conditions and requirements, and the smart contract can be executed automatically. The amount of the payment, the steps to use the payment, and the effect to be achieved will all be reflected in the contract. The entire contract can be operated automatically from receipt to execution, and the execution status will be automatically given feedback. The whole process does not require manual intervention and is supervised by all parties involved. The fully automatic mode of smart contracts ensures the smooth implementation of the project.
