Compliance, Governance, & Human Rights

This episode discusses key corporate governance, compliance, and social responsibility initiatives that distributed ledger technology makes possible.

Despite the controversy surrounding blockchain, today distributed ledger technology is used to track food, address land grabs, protect refugee identity rights, combat bribery and corruption, eliminate voter fraud, and facilitate financial transactions for those without access to banks.

Prof. Marcia Narine Weldon, Rachel Epstein and Paul Madsen share the potential to transform the way companies look at governance and enterprise risk management, and to assist governments and businesses in mitigating human rights impacts.

Download Prof Marcia Narine Weldon’s paper, Beyond Bitcoin: Leveraging Blockchain to Benefit Business and Society

This episode was recorded January 3rd, 2020