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Dec 9, 2020

Event Recap | AgriTechAction 2020

By Borja Prado, Claire Branley

On Tuesday, November 17 the GeoTech Center hosted AgriTechAction 2020, a three-day conference that explored the relationship between agriculture and technology, with the goal for future solutions to food security challenges to be accessible and sustainable for all. In the conference, experts and leaders in agriculture, technology, and national security came together to discuss and help guide the further deployment of data and technology in agriculture; specifically in food production, processing, distribution, security, efficiency, and sustainability

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Nov 24, 2020

Launching the New Economy of Trust Newsletter

By GeoTech Center

In partnership with SICPA and its project to open a Campus for the Economy of Trust, the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center is pleased to launch the new Economy of Trust newsletter. This newsletter will highlight advances in technology and data activities that provide the opportunity to improve nations and sectors alike, centered around building trust and more transparent frameworks. While it may feel like the last decade has been a period of widening polarization and mistrust within societies, both SICPA and the Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center believe we can reverse this trend and build resiliency into organizations and societies.

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Oct 22, 2020

Nikhil Raghuveera: Mission-driven cryptocurrency requires an active commitment to equity

By Atlantic Council

"For cryptocurrency to meaningfully move “the needle on large global challenges,” as Armstrong writes, the underlying causes of inequality must be addressed. And while mission-driven cryptocurrency organizations cannot expect to do this alone, they have an important role to play in developing and directing their products to be used in the service of addressing the underlying problems. Those who declare they’re on a social mission inevitably sign themselves up for this challenge."

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Nikhil Raghuveera is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. He is a strategy & innovation partner at Celo, a layer 1 blockchain with a mission to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity. At Celo, Raghuveera helps support and lead the ecosystem’s decentralized finance initiatives. Raghuveera also cohosts Untying Knots, a podcast series published by the Harvard Kennedy School Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. His expertise is on digital currency, decentralized finance, and the intersection of technology, social inequality, and systems of oppression.

Prior to Celo, Raghuveera worked in management consulting, nonprofit management and economic consulting with organizations including the Boston Consulting Group, the Equal Justice Initiative, and Cornerstone Research.

Raghuveera graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science from Emory University where he wrote his thesis on how political violence can be used to create the conditions for democracy.