Representatives of the IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, together with representatives of the world’s leading technology and consulting companies, announced today the launch of LAC-Chain, a new alliance to promote the use of blockchain in Latin America and the Caribbean. The presentation of this new alliance took place at the FOROMIC 2018 conference, which is being held this year in Barranquilla, Colombia.
LAC-Chain seeks to promote the use of blockchain in an inclusive manner, ensuring that its benefits reach the most underserved populations in the entire region. This alliance is formed by the Alastria Consortium, ConsenSys, Everis, NTT Data, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and RSK, and will soon also include the Ethereum Foundation, Hyperledger, the MIT Media Lab, IBM and Accenture. LAC-Chain was conceived with the aim of developing an inclusive, efficient and safe blockchain ecosystem for all.
“Blockchain technology has the extraordinary potential to provide vulnerable populations excluded from the formal system with access to financial and non-financial services, digital identity, and ownership of their own data,” said Irene Arias, IDB Lab manager. “However, this does not mean that the technology’s enabling environment—its ecosystem—is ready and available to everyone, so together with our international partners we have decided to launch this Global Knowledge Alliance for the Development of the Blockchain Ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC-Chain).”
LAC-Chain’s objective is to share knowledge of the different initiatives that are emerging in countries for the development of national ecosystems in the region, providing technological advice, market stimuli, and analysis of impact data as catalysts for the democratization of the use of this technology.
Source/More: Global Alliance to Promote the Use of Blockchain in Latin America and the Caribbean | IADB
