Today Harvard University, the New America think tank and ConsenSys
launched a two-year blockchain initiative to develop a system to track worker well-being at factories that supply Levi Strauss. The $800,000 collaboration is supported by the U.S. State Department, Levi Strauss Foundation and ConsenSys.
Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health has been working with Levi Strauss & Co since 2015 measuring the well-being of nearly 9,000 workers to date. The new system will anonymously and securely track worker well-being on a blockchain. One benefit is once the data is recorded it’s tough to tamper with it. Another is anonymity. Three Mexican factories will be tested in the second quarter of this year with another test in 2020.
There are numerous blockchain projects aimed at targeting
food traceability, and product
provenance. And many of those include sustainability and ethical practices. One example is
Pacifical fishing which is employing blockchain for tuna fishing in the Western and Central Pacific. In that case, there’s an observer and third-party audits.
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