Podcasts about hiveonline

In this third episode of season 6 of Prophetic Voices: Preaching and Teaching Beloved Community, we speak with Episcopalians committed to the Beloved Community about the texts for Maundy Thursday. The texts covered in this episode are Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14, and John 13:1-17, 31b-35. Our guests this week are:  The Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining, rector of St. Christopher's Church in Gladwyne, Penn., and creator of The Hiveonline spirituality and wellness digital community. Additionally, Hillary is a beekeeper, yoga and meditation instructor, and a forest therapist. The Rev. Dr. Erin Kirby, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Marion, in the Diocese of Western North Carolina. She is a Sacred Ground facilitator and is committed to social justice, racial reconciliation, and seeing the Sacred in all of Creation.   The Rev. Christopher McNabb, an Episcopal priest living in Seattle, Wash. He's passionate about ministry with first responders, especially EMS, as well as the rights and the needs of immigrant communities. When not working, he's out exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest with his dog, Lucky. Prophetic Voices is hosted by the Rev. Isaiah “Shaneequa” Brokenleg, The Episcopal Church's staff officer for Racial Reconciliation. For more information on Becoming Beloved Community, visit iam.ec/becomingbelovedcommunity.

The utopian future of blockchain promises a future of more inclusion for the underserved and unbanked. But in a world where it's been reported that 9% of accounts hold 80% of the NFT market and 2% of accounts hold 95% of Bitcoin - is inequality being solved? Blockchain technology has created new opportunities for emerging markets, including digital finance solutions to help communities access affordable credit, insurance, and savings in the informal economy. Today we're excited to be joined by Sofie Blakstad, founder of hiveonline to talk about the financial inclusion gap and how they are giving rural smallholder farmers access to credit and markets through decentralized finance. In this conversation, Sofie and I talk about the complex barriers that have kept so much of the world's population unbanked and without access to financial services, why infrastructure matters, what decentralized finance means, and why it's a good solution for creating access, how hiveonline leverages existing social systems to work with local cooperatives and farmers in Mozambique, the opportunities to connect DeFi with centralized banking systems, and more.   Highlights Welcome Sofie Blakstad Sofie's accidental entry into technology and banking How lack of infrastructure impacts populations The complex reasons why many people around the world remain unbanked Bridging the financial inclusion gap with decentralized finance (DeFi) Why Sofie wanted to focus on working with cooperatives in Africa How DeFi reduces costs for end users Some of the issues with preexisting FinTech solutions Leveraging existing social systems to allow access without infrastructure The founding premise of Hiveonline How traditional savings groups work Connecting DeFi with centralized banking systems Hiveonline's plans to digitize alternative value systems The difficulty with validating whether protocols and ecosystems are truly green   Key terms Decentralized finance (DeFi): a major growth sector in blockchain that offers peer-to-peer (P2P) financial services and technologies built on protocols such as Ethereum, Cardano, Polkadot, and Solana. DeFi loans, investments, trades and swaps are typically transparent, permissionless, trustless, and interoperable. Smart contract: a self-executing code or protocol that carries out a set of instructions verified on the blockchain. These contracts are trustless, autonomous, decentralized, and transparent; they are irreversible and unmodifiable once deployed. Definition source: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/   Connect with Sofie Blakstad Hiveonline https://www.hivenetwork.online/ MyCoop.online https://mycoop.online/AboutUs Sofie Blakstad on Twitter https://twitter.com/sofieblakstad   Connect with Eve Wealth DAO Go from crypto-curious to crypto-confident with the DeFi Curious Course https://www.evewealth.com/defi-curious   Check out our social channels at @evewealthhq: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/eve-wealth-hq/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/evewealthhq/ Twitter https://twitter.com/evewealthhq Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evewealthhq   Eve Wealth Website https://www.evewealth.com/

In our tenth episode we hear from Sofie Blakstad, CEO and Founder of hiveonline. hiveonline is a blockchain based community finance platform rolling out to unbanked communities across sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Prior to starting hiveonline, Sofie spent nearly 30 years building and transforming technology and businesses for international banks.In this episode we learn about Sofie's journey starting hiveonline, lessons learned in building a global product and team, how she is thinking about hiveonline's business model going forward, and the biggest challenges and opportunities on the horizon in the fintech space.

Sofie is a pioneer within our space. She is a Fintech founder, an author of several Fintech publications and a Fintech advisor to the UN. Sofie has extensive experience within Financial Services and leverages that within her own Fintech, Hiveonline. Hiveonline is a true example of using Fintech for Good. One of the key use cases is using their technology to improve credit scoring in Sub Sahara Africa. This helps small businesses to access capital, which often would not that otherwise would have not been possible. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Oliver Sjöstedt and Simon Schou from Copenhagen Fintech dig into why and how a global NGO is collaborating with a fintech startup together with Rasmus Jacobsen from Care Denmark and Sofie Blakstad from Hiveonline. Care and Hiveonline talk about their joint experience with their work to bring a blockchain based solution to bank the unbanked nomadic population of Niger.

Kan bæredygtig innovation være en god forretning?For at løse verdens mange udfordringer og samtidig skabe en bæredygtig fremtid, skal der masser af nye opfindelser, produkter og services til. I 2. episode af CSR Agendaen taler vi om, hvordan innovation og bæredygtighed kan gå hånd i hånd og kaste nye markedsmuligheder af sig.Vært: Eva Harpøth Skjoldborg, redaktør på CSR.dkGæster: Jacob Ravn, CEO i Access2innovation, Sofie Blakstad, CEO i Hiveonline og Rasmus Jakobsen, Generalsekretær i CARE.

In a digital and networked world we need new kinds of trust to continue working together, and to continue developing. If the world going to be even more digital and networked than it is today, we need technology that can establish new kinds of trust relationships between people. In this episode we meet Sofie Blakstad from Hiveonline. Hiveonline uses blockchain technology to create trust in a economic systems. As always the jingle is "Magisk Svamp" by Danish artist Grævling. Listen more to Grævling here: open.spotify.com/artist/5M0HLtuFxIbDsGov9fOyVv