Margie Cheesman
Affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge
Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy
Margie Cheesman is affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge
December 01, 2022
Around the world we are seeing real-life experiments of so-called web3 technologies, and communities in precarious financial and political positions are at the receiving end of these solutions, our new report shows.
These communities already face great disadvantages. They include refugees and stateless people, natural disaster survivors, and recipients of development aid programs in Vanuatu, Jordan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and elsewhere. They are people who lack choices and alternatives, and are not able to turn down the financial incentives that start-ups provide.