Week 1: Impact Opportunity

• Select your challenge.

• Develop an agile & transparent network for connecting surplus foods & supplies to communities in need.
• To create a decentralized system that collect excess food supplies from local resources and distributes these resources to local food insecure individuals.

• Define the scope of problem

• For our summer project, we are limiting the POC to a small number of local farmers with excess food supplies (two pick up dates TBD ) to be picked up by transportation volunteers who will transport food supplies to agreed upon drop off point .

• Why is blockchain needed to solve this problem

• A supply chain model has been determined to be the best way to initiate, track and deliver excess food supplies. The above model has many unknown individuals who do not need to form a relationship with the parties at the other end of the supply chain.

  Blockchain enables a digitized, verifiable, decentralized technology that’s used to capture and verify transactions between multiple parties in a provable and permanent way.

  Due to its decentralized nature, multiple stakeholders use the blockchain to efficiently record, report on and track verified interactions.

  This makes it easier to track and manage the sourcing, storage, transfer and distribution of food donations.

  • To connect donors with receipts
  • Capture and verify the quantity and handover of food & supplies
  • Track where food & supplies are located at any time
  • Understand where food & supplies are sourced from and who the recipients are

• What is the size of the market? What demographics will you serve? Which industries will you impact? Any concurrent trends?

• For our POC we will limit the size of the volunteer pool and we will determine the best spot to deliver. Current discussion revolves around local food banks, shelters, and R.F Veterans connections. The industry we are attempting to impact is the Local Charity Giving by creating a system where unknown parties can easily on-board and contribute.

• Who are the stakeholders involved? How are they thinking/feeling/acting currently?

• Local Farmers with excess food are more than excited to be a part of the project. Transporters might prove a challenge The food insecure people who receive a donation should be handled with privacy and dignity and the system develop should reflect this.

• What are the geopolitical, cultural-social-economic factors that must be taken into consideration? What are some nuances and complexities that must be addressed?

• Some factors are SUSTAINABILITY, food spoilage , timing of transportation as well as dignified deliver system.
• Potential for food spoilage.
• Product liability associated with being a supplier of food.
• Supply pipeline to get foods from Donor to Consumer must be efficient enough to avoid complexities 1 and 2. 

<<ScottS>> 

<<GaryT: Meeting of 6/12/19>> See end of document for suggested Next Steps, Risks, etc <<GaryT>>

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