Smart Donations: Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain

Ludwig Trotter; Mike Harding; Peter Shaw; Nigel Davies; Chris Elsden; Chris Speed; John Vines; Aydin Abadi; Josh Hallwright

doi:10.1145/3441000.3441014

Smart Donations: Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain

Ludwig Trotter, Mike Harding, Peter Shaw, Nigel Davies, Chris Elsden, Chris Speed, John Vines, Aydin Abadi, Josh Hallwright

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Recent work has questioned the largely unconditional nature of charitable donations and explored the value of conditional giving with contemporary donors. In this paper, we extend this work by exploring how to operationalise features of conditionality in charitable giving, situated in the context of large international non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Building on prior engagements with international aid organisations, we present design considerations and a conceptual architecture supporting real-time, conditional giving for individual and institutional donations. Our architecture leverages properties of distributed-ledger technologies (DLT) to empower donors to (i) attach conditions to their donation, (ii) store funds in a secure, decentralised escrow and (iii) automatically release funds once conditions are met. Unlike prior work that envisions radical disintermediation and the removal of intermediate NGOs using DLT, our work recognises the expertise of NGOs in tackling complex global problems and instead investigates compelling new way for charities to increase transparency and accountability by introducing dynamic pledge controls.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OzCHI 2020
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2020)
Editors	Naseem Ahmadpour, Tuck Leong, Bernd Ploderer, Callum Parker, Sarah Webber, Diego Munoz, Lian Loke, Martin Tomitsch
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	546-557
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781450389754
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441014
Publication status	Published - 2 Dec 2020
Event	OzCHI ’20: Australian conference on human-computer interaction (HCI) - Virtual, Sydney, Australia Duration: 2 Dec 2020 → 4 Dec 2020 http://www.ozchi.org/2020/

Conference

Conference	OzCHI ’20
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	2/12/20 → 4/12/20
Internet address	http://www.ozchi.org/2020/

Keywords

Blockchain
charitable giving
even-driven computing
conditionality

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Trotter, L., Harding, M., Shaw, P., Davies, N., Elsden, C., Speed, C., Vines, J., Abadi, A., & Hallwright, J. (2020). Smart Donations: Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain. In N. Ahmadpour, T. Leong, B. Ploderer, C. Parker, S. Webber, D. Munoz, L. Loke, & M. Tomitsch (Eds.), OzCHI 2020: Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2020) (pp. 546-557). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441014

Trotter, Ludwig ; Harding, Mike ; Shaw, Peter et al. / Smart Donations : Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain. OzCHI 2020: Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2020). editor / Naseem Ahmadpour ; Tuck Leong ; Bernd Ploderer ; Callum Parker ; Sarah Webber ; Diego Munoz ; Lian Loke ; Martin Tomitsch. New York : ACM, 2020. pp. 546-557

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Trotter, L, Harding, M, Shaw, P, Davies, N, Elsden, C, Speed, C, Vines, J, Abadi, A & Hallwright, J 2020, Smart Donations: Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain. in N Ahmadpour, T Leong, B Ploderer, C Parker, S Webber, D Munoz, L Loke & M Tomitsch (eds), OzCHI 2020: Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2020). ACM, New York, pp. 546-557, OzCHI ’20, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2/12/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441014

Smart Donations: Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain. / Trotter, Ludwig; Harding, Mike; Shaw, Peter et al.
OzCHI 2020: Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2020). ed. / Naseem Ahmadpour; Tuck Leong; Bernd Ploderer; Callum Parker; Sarah Webber; Diego Munoz; Lian Loke; Martin Tomitsch. New York: ACM, 2020. p. 546-557.

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