Leveraging Ethereum for Sustainable Solutions in Southeast Asia by Gesa Schneider | Devcon SEA

[Music] my name is Gaza and in my talk I want to take you on a journey through southeast Asia where with the help of ethereum we can create a more sustainable future let's start with zzak a young farmer in rural Thailand every year he suffers from unpredictable weather patterns unfair market prices and the constant need to increase his stealed by using pesticides zzak story is not unique it's a reality faced by millions of farmers across southeast Asia and besides Farmers a lot of more people are affected by climate change with rising sea levels deforestation at an alarming rate and um energy demand Sky rocking southeast Asia has now the fastest CO2 emission growth in the world the consequences you you can see here and when I arrived here in Thailand actually over one month ago I wanted to go to changai but I couldn't because it looked like this after I could make it finally to changai I made my way to Vietnam to the very north of the country close to the border of China where I encountered situations like this I made these pictures and then talked to the local people this is the very last sport um where they could find fish and you could imagine how this will um look like if it if it continues um with the DRS but how do we change an um a system that is uh facilitated by um economy of scale where a lot of people suffer and only a few benefit economically um for this let us understand the the um fail just better so the reason for many of our our um social and environmental issues are indeed coordination failes issues that could be solved through better collective decision making this is where cryptoeconomics comes in as it brings it with it all the aspects that could solve these coordination issues the key question is how do we Design cryptoeconomic Systems so that they are um enable a sustainable future let us remind us what what sustainable sustainable means sustainable means the res the resources are steady um the resource availability is um not depleted over time the system is steady the concept of regenerative however goes behind Beyond sustainability as resources are regenerated over time the capacity is built up sustainably while being resilient to shocks and this is a concept generative Finance or refi builds up on and this is something we want to build on let's see how eum can help to achieve this vision of a regenerative future in Southeast Asia so um platforms like iser Risk offer insurances against Natural Disasters um they give automatic payouts to Farmers like zzak renewable energy trading platforms like power Ledger or ar cream um offer peer-to-peer energy trading that means households with solar panels can sell excess energy directly to others and besides these projects there are a lot of more promising refi project in Southeast Asia considering the time I leave you with this overview but if anybody's interested feel free to get in touch with me after the talk and I would also highly recommend um The Regan Hub where many of these projects are um yeah present yeah with ethereum we can go uh beond sustainable and Empower regenerative systems but let's return to szak and see how we can help him so as mentioned before smart contract Insurance zza can use to um get get um payouts in case of um um natural disasters then he could also o list his uh list his Harvest directly on the marketplace he can get um also gain better prices by verifying the quality and a peer-to-peer energy trading uh platforms can help him um to gain an um additional income stream by selling um solar energy thanks to ethereum Solutions zzak now um gets fair market prices adopts regioner ative farming practices and sell solar energy but um many of these Solutions um doesn't exist yet so that means we need to build them and now is the the best time to do that the reasons you can see here and yeah uh with this I would like to end and um the the tools are here the need is clear and the time is now so let's build the regenerative future we all Don kitchen uh very happy to see some of the Thai projects in uh on the slide uh like happy ground just happy to see them uh any question from the audience one lady over there still couldn't hear you maybe try this one so much fun everyone should get a chance to throw it it's still not oh it's not working no now it's working oh thank God all right it's nice to have that help um I was wondering just the piece on your presentation about um access to the information of the market right because I think that's one of the major challenges of farmers in the global South is actually being able to see what's being sold at what price range Etc so I I love the idea here I just want to understand more of our how our folks incentivized to share that information that I find it very challenging for people to openly share what's being produced and at what cost um so you mean um the transparency from the pricing to to get that information how how to improve that um yeah of course this is something um we need to need to figure out I mean there are already some um some existing Solutions data right um yeah that are connected to blockchain I think we can collaborate with them but um otherwise I think that's a great topic for the upcoming Heaton for [Music] sure any questions in the audience other questions anyone okay oh one over there catch it hello hello oh yeah um so you mentioned the different things that um based on ethereum that can help with coordination like you energy trading and and the marketplace and things like that um I think the reality of many local change makers is that like time and Tech skills are also a barrier how do you see or in what ways do you see that going forward kind of ethereum and the issues on the ground of change makers coming together or converging how do you see that moving forward time on Tech Goods um yeah uh I mean uh of course we need uh more developers but I think um people from all uh kind kind of fields because uh often you need also people to bring in new ideas and to develop these Concepts right um and I actually by my own um attended a lot of heatons um and I first thought I can't attend them because I'm U I'm actually not a developer but um in the end you need this divers diversity at at heatons right and um to really um yeah bring the right Solutions um to the market and and also attract more people yeah because you need um to communicate the vision um and and to bring in more people from all kind of fields and I think this is exactly where we are right now also with ethereum that we open up and um yeah um attract people with by showing um the positive outcomes and future um we can create and that's it for our question time thank you again Kissa next