Social Impact Project for Geoidentity

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Project Description and Impact

How do you survive in a world of verification without proving who you are?

Today over 1.5 billion people around the globe have no means to prove their identity. And 108 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of wars, political-religious persecution and climate change, losing access to vital personal documents such as graduated or present students' certificates.

The loss of physical academic certificates once people move from one country to another and their titles not being recognised, because of the inconsistency of validation processes between countries, makes it impossible for refugees to rebuild a life. This leads to exclusion from education and employment opportunities, perpetuating poverty and inequality.

Geography has the power to draw and define our existence. A reality that I want to share through their voices: “My family house was bombed three times: Oh my God, I’ll never get the opportunity to finish my studies" "I am a stateless person I do not have any document to prove who I am".

—These are the voices behind the huge stats. This is a call to redesign fundamental systems beyond any geographical borders: because political borders are abstracts, they are created by humans. These words stayed with me, sparking the idea of Geoidentity.

In the past, we invented the passport to travel around the world easily. Imagine if every country could request a different document and process to access the country, who could travel more?

Geoidentity aims to do for academic data what the passport did for travel: provide a universal, easily verifiable, and borderless system to authenticate identity and education globally.

Geoidentity prevents vital data loss from wars and unpredictable climate and political crises using digital transformation to protect access to education & identity, turning them into undeniable human rights. It introduces a universal system for study validation with an academic blockchain-powered passport to preserve one’s identity. The system operates on a blockchain platform, where data is logged and validated in a decentralized ledger. This ensures that students can share their credentials with any host university, anywhere in the world, without concerns about authenticity or loss of data. This creates a global infrastructure that overcomes the existing fragmentation in academic systems, particularly for displaced or migrating students.

I need support to create the first MRV and how we scale the project. I have a visual prototype of the platform. I need support in finding opportunities to connect with an ecosystem of partners, investors, and global stakeholders who can help catalyze our growth.