2019-1-27 16:39 |
US think-tank New America, the public health graduate school of Harvard University and American apparel company Levi Strauss & Co are partnering on a new blockchain-based solution as reported by Reuters.
Their partnership announced on Thursday will focus on creating a system that will “augment outside auditors of factory health and safety with self-reporting by workers.”
Mexican Factories Will Use the SystemThree factories producing goods for Levi Strauss in Mexico will be the first to use the blockchain-powered survey this year.
The three factories employ a total of 5,000 workers.
ConsenSys, the Ethereum enterprise company will provide the blockchain solution.
The three partners plan to have an annual worker survey deployed on the blockchain which will help provide a transparent evaluation of the working conditions in the factories.
A US State Department grant is funding the project.
Talking about the project, Tomicah Tillemann, founder of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator (BTA) at New America said:
“Providing a secure, standardized, auditable, and transparent platform through which worker survey data can be aggregated and analyzed will be possible with this solution.”
How Will Harvard Contribute?The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has developed an index which will be used by the blockchain-based survey.
BTA executive director Allison Price told Reuters that using the index means that the results cannot be manipulated.
Director of Harvard T.H. Chan’s Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise, Dr. Eileen McNeely said that work in supply chains had been monitored mainly by audits for the past 25 years, but this system used alone is not very effective.
She said that a distributed system of inquiry that connects directly to the workers would offer a new solution.
The first pilot of the project will be tested in Q2 2019 and the second is scheduled for 2020.
US Think Tank, Harvard, and Levi Strauss Partner to Use Blockchain for Worker Welfare was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Blockchain News | Bitcoin News | blokt.com.
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