{"id":9096,"date":"2018-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2018\/09\/29\/ripple-social-program-for-education\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"ripple-social-program-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/ripple-social-program-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripple launches a social program to incentivize education"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blockchain payment processor Ripple<\/a><\/strong> has formally announced the launch of its social impact program<\/strong> called “Ripple for Good”, through which they will donate funds in order to create and promote educational programs.<\/p>\n Via a press release issued yesterday, the startup made public the name of their program, Ripple for Good<\/strong>, with which they pretend to teach people about fintechs, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, as well as to let them have access to these.<\/p>\n This investment is truly significant for the company founded in San Francisco in 2012, for they feel that education is the key point and first step to the adoption and better understanding of business policies and finances.<\/p>\n Ripple CEO and co-founder Chris Larsen<\/strong> said the firm would focus on building things capable of solving real world problems.<\/p>\n “Focusing the Blockchain movement on that, will allow more than two billion people to become full economic citizens<\/em>,” he said.<\/p>\n The head of social impact for Ripple Ken Weber, stated that a true commitment to transform global change, could ensure that innovations in banking and global payments may be available to everyone, regardless of whether the population is unbanked or not. “Our goal is to fulfill the promise of an Internet of value for all<\/em>,” he said.<\/p>\n Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and Financial Technology are the most likely areas Ripple programs will focus on. However, they have yet to determine carefully what projects will become Ripple for Good.<\/p>\nForce of change<\/strong><\/h2>\n