Crypto Altruists: Real-World Stories of Social & Environmental Impact with Web3 Episode 44 - Tokenizing Social Impact Pt. 2 - Fishcoin and "Best Fit" Tokens, ft. Michael Cooper from Panagora Group
In this episode, we welcome back Michael Cooper, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Panagora Group, to continue our conversation on Tokenizing Social Impact. In this episode, we use Fishcoin to demonstrate how tokens can be used to address specific types of social impact problems and the role of behavior change and adaptive management in finding the “best fit” token.
Part one of the conversation with Michael can be found HERE.
About Michael and Panagora Group
The Panagora Group is a leader in providing evidence driven innovation in social impact to the United States Agency for International Development and is actively building the tools for effective and ethical digital impact.
In his role with Panagora group, Michael works with foreign assistance providers from various U.S. federal agencies, the United Nations and World Bank in designing and learning from social impact interventions. His mandate is to build evidence to improve the design and management of social impact interventions using government funds. He has worked in 27 different countries and completed fellowships with the University of Notre Dame on the use of data science in decision making and is now focusing on building the initial learning agendas and protocols for optimizing the use of blockchain technology for social impact.
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