City bundling blockchain hacks for homelessness in Bloomberg challenge

The Blockchain Trust Accelerator was recently cited in an Austin Monitor article by Chad Swiatecki regarding its collaboration with the City of Austin in using blockchain technology to combat homelessness.

We’re excited to be bringing technology to the homelessness sector, and in doing the work to solve this, you learn that the thing that solves this is also something that we all need,” said Kerry O’Connor, the city’s chief innovation officer. “We had a multitude of service providers to the homeless community and a swath of the tech community here collaborating, and it was so cool to have all those people together to weigh in on the solutions.”

O’Connor said research and conversations with groups such as the Linux Foundation and Blockchain Trust Accelerator have helped her and other city staff in their work to best utilize the hackathon projects in creating a complete technology based around blockchain that can help secure a person’s identity.