Championing kindness with ArdCoin

By Giovanna Mingarelli

CEO of M&C Consulting, MC2 and MC3 Inc., and Board Chair of International Dignity

I’m delighted to be again in Ulaanbaatar for the primary time since 2013. The nation has modified – it’s develop into lovely with many new buildings. I see the millennials (inhabitants between the ages of 25 and 40) are empowered and doing many tasks, together with the International Shapers Hub. I had the good pleasure of assembly the International Shapers Hub’s crew this morning as a part of the International Dignity workshop, for which I’m right here. I used to be invited to Mongolia to symbolize International Dignity in my capability as each the board chair for the worldwide group and the Canadian chair.

International Dignity is a non-religious, non-political, non-profit group dedicated to empowering kids in kindergarten to grade 12 with dignity in 80 nations. Yearly, we impression 1 million youth all over the world, providing free coaching supplies and sources on our web site and organizing actions from 20-minute workshops to half-day schoolwide plenary periods, in addition to occasions and concert events. Our function is for everybody to steer a dignified life. What which means is for everybody to acknowledge and respect their very own worth and to acknowledge and respect the worth of others. After we do that, it builds confidence, it builds love, and it builds belief. And when now we have belief, now we have higher productiveness, positivity, cooperation (each domestically and internationally), and most significantly, it brings peace. Belief brings peace, and we’re in a essential time on the earth the place we want extra peace.

I’m thrilled to be in Ulaanbaatar right now and facilitating this workshop together with my colleagues Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt, the CEO of Ard Monetary Group (Ard) and the nation chair for International Dignity in Mongolia, and our esteemed friends and contributors. One of many issues that we mentioned throughout the workshop was the continued Unite Kindness social media marketing campaign that International Dignity developed in Could 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The marketing campaign was designed to empower younger folks in order that they will really feel a way of empowerment throughout a time of misery, with lockdowns occurring due to COVID-19. We wished them to have the ability to share their acts of kindness on social media, to really feel like they had been part of a world group of those who had been participating and taking motion of their communities, and to not really feel like they had been on their very own. The marketing campaign is technologically enabled by a mix of AI-powered chatbot expertise and aggregation software program that pulls acts of kindness from Fb, Twitter and Instagram and showcases all of the acts of kindness throughout 40 completely different kindness campaigns worldwide on the International Dignity web site at globaldignity.org/unitedkindness.

Our objective for Unite Kindness is to achieve 1 billion acts of kindness within the subsequent three years. It’s an enormous objective, nevertheless it’s potential. Since we began the marketing campaign, we’ve reached 2.6 million acts of kindness. We’re very excited right now to announce that Ard may even assist us take this marketing campaign one step additional as we start our rollout in Mongolia. Ard goes to sponsor 100,000 USD within the type of ArdCoin in direction of acts of kindness that folks will full. For each act of kindness that a youngster does for the marketing campaign, Ard can be giving 1 ArdCoin and the worth of that coin can be donated to International Dignity in return, which creates a brand new type of crowdfunding utilizing a cryptocurrency. This can be a new mannequin of charitable, philanthropic donation by an organization. We’re very enthusiastic about this and grateful for Ard’s generosity in permitting us to proceed the marketing campaign and develop it outdoors present parameters.

As well as, Canada celebrated our first Nationwide Kindness Week within the third week of February this yr. That is laws that was introduced into impact in June of this yr, making Canada the primary nation on the earth to have fun one week of kindness the place the federal government has legislated that each one corporations, organizations and people trade sources and instruments and interact in actions that promote higher kindness as a result of it’s a matter of well being and well-being of all Canadians to take action. And so, we launched the marketing campaign in Canada domestically. That was our first native engagement of the marketing campaign. We’re now rolling the marketing campaign out internationally via city-based launches. Mongolia goes to be the subsequent nation that we launch the marketing campaign in. We’re additionally in discussions with officers in London, the UK and shortly, in Italy.

As well as, I spoke concerning the “Way forward for Work” as a part of the Mongolia Financial Discussion board on April 8. This discussion board was the unique motive I used to be invited to Mongolia again in 2013 and a motive I got here again this time. I used to be happy to hitch this dialogue and share some insights from Canada concerning the Canadian authorities’s entry into the gig financial system via our technologically-enabled platform, Expertise Cloud, for which I’m an exterior advisory board member. Canada is making an effort to incorporate gig-based contract work into the federal government that enables for insurance policies equivalent to trip pay and so forth that’s by no means been seen earlier than in a authorities. I shared about this on the Mongolia Financial Discussion board.

Lastly, in my capability because the founding father of M&C Consulting Inc., I’m additionally very excited to share that our partnership with Ard has deepened on this journey. My firm has been working with Ard since final spring once we partnered to help Ard lengthen their firm into North America, beginning with Canada. After going via numerous stakeholder interviews, focus teams and introductions to native companions, Ard is already changing into a recognized power in Canada, notably in Japanese Canada, the place we plan to begin out the rollout of the corporate. This can be in partnership with my corporations, MC2 and MC3, that construct software program and providers with social impression expertise, notably AI-powered chatbots, for social acts that help ESG campaigns in workplaces and governments and for the general public. We hope to combine ArdCoin into our expertise in North America as properly, seeing that it is without doubt one of the hottest cryptocurrencies in Asia presently and it’s seen as such in North America. We’re very excited to proceed this partnership and relationship with Ard and deepen the financial relations between Mongolia and Canada. At the moment, mining merchandise are the first import and export for our nations and this partnership provides a really fascinating fintech and cryptocurrency component to our relationship.