THELOGICALINDIAN - Elisabeth GrotheMller is an art history apprentice of the University of Copenhagen who wants to aid bodies who are afar from admired assets best bodies booty for accepted So Elisabeth and her ancestors created a peertopeer online belvedere alleged CommonCollection to affix bodies calm and change things Bodies can anon accord Bitcoin to those in charge as it is the built-in acquittal band-aid for the accommodating alignment From the all-around refugee crisis to accustomed disasters this adolescent woman and her ancestors are application the agenda bill to actualize a bigger world
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The apple has gone through a lot of agitation lately, and abounding people face economic hardships. The Grothe-Møller ancestors feels that we all can advice affluence the discrepancies amid those that accept and those that don’t.
Elisabeth grew up in a ancestors that traveled the world, seeing adverse affairs and consistently feeling the charge to help. With the abridgement in best regions in abysmal depressions, and the refugee crisis accident globally, bodies do charge a lot of help.
When visiting CommonCollection, you can acquisition assorted cases of individuals and families who charge banking assistance. One man is architecture capricious shelters for bodies adversity from the convulsion in Nepal. Some added cases that can be begin include someone attractive to armamentarium a laptop for a agent position in Karnataka, India; in Lesbos Prefecture, Greece there is an accomplishment to fund life jackets for refugees bridge baptize from Turkey to Lesbos.
Bitcoin.com got calm with Elisabeth Grothe-Møller to get some acumen and angle on the amusing belvedere she and her ancestors started to advice people. Elisabeth tells us the benefits of Bitcoin and how it can accommodate crowd funding and alms today.
Bitcoin.com (BC): What is CommonCollection all about?
Elisabeth Grothe-Møller (EGM): CommonCollection.com is a amusing media belvedere that is all about abutting P2P to about affiliate for a bigger world! It’s our axiological acceptance that there is so abundant unutilized abeyant and amicableness – and our ambition is, therefore, to present a amusing media belvedere area we can share, affix and accord with the purpose of creating an appulse on both receiver’s and giver’s lives.
BC: How did you get complex with activism?
EGM: I assumption we’ve consistently been complex with some array of amusing activism – or at atomic consistently had a abysmal admiring for a bigger world. I grew up in a ancestors that catholic a lot and whenever we accommodated addition who was active beneath abominable circumstances, or absolutely aloof opened up a newspaper, or saw a beggar on the streets, it was about enough not be able to do annihilation to advice — which is a activity I anticipate best of us admit and share. And this is article that has been axiological for the conception of CommonCollection.
When the founders, Annette and Thorkild Grothe-Møller, about 7 years ago aboriginal got the eyes of application the already amusing and affiliated internet to advice accomplish it easier for bodies to advice others and in about-face get advice themselves, it was the alpha of a accomplished new akin of ‘social’ and ‘tech’ activism. I was accustomed from a almost adolescent age to accompany a altercation as to how we could accompany these cool abstracted account animate application the internet, and that was actual special! The accepted adaptation 1 on CommonCollection, today, is a artefact of abounding alone prototypes and hours of testing and brainstorming. I am actual aflame to get started on adaptation 2, which we will activate developing back we accept abundant allotment from sponsors and investors because it will entail some amazing absolute improvements to the absolute ‘social’ apparatus of the site, which will accommodate new administration functions, contour improvements and UX design.
BC: Who alien you to Bitcoin?
EGM: My brother, Fredrik Grothe-Møller, who was the administrator of the Danish Bitcoin Foundation and is now developing his own Bitcoin-related business, aboriginal alien us to the many advantages of Bitcoin.
BC: What do you anticipate Bitcoin can do to advice the world’s poor?
EGM: I anticipate it’s ablaze to actively use Bitcoin to advice the world’s poor. Basically, CommonCollection.com use Bitcoin-to-Bitcoin as the built-in acquittal solution. We apprehend admitting that ability about Bitcoin is yet about limited, so for the accessibility of the givers and receivers, we additionally acquire bounded bill as donations and accomplish the payout in bounded bill by use of bounded bitcoin brokers, and uses Bitcoin as a media to alteration money beyond the world. Right now we use Copenhagen Bitcoin for the Danish bazaar and Unocoin for India, but we plan to aggrandize this partnership-model as we extend our attendance in altered genitalia of the world. I anticipate CommonCollection will advice appearance how we can actively use Bitcoin to advice the atomic of the poor – peer-to-peer – and thereby advice augment the compassionate of the abounding allowances of application cryptocurrency, as able-bodied as accomplish it added boilerplate back it is so absolutely chip into this amusing media platform.
BC: How do you feel about the accepted change of decentralization and peer-to-peer technologies accident globally?
EGM: Taking the ascendancy of money from axial authorities and accord to anniversary and every one of us, absolutely brings achievement for a bigger and added according apple in the approaching – that abstraction feels actual acceptable to me!
As Bitcoin is a decentralization of money, we are with CommonCollection aggravating to accomplish a decentralization of the accomplished charity-industry, which calm with Bitcoin can accept a above appulse on abjection about the world.
BC: Can you acquaint our readers about your partnerships?
EGM: CommonCollection additionally establishes partnerships with businesses, non-profits etc. that allotment our abstracted eyes and we accept best afresh addled up a affiliation with the Nobel Accord Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee and her accord foundation, ‘Gbowee Accord Foundation Africa, with the ambition to accommodate educational and administration opportunities to sustain advance and development in African countries. Imagine, actuality able to allocution with these adolescent woman and men through this amusing media belvedere and actuality able appearance them anniversary alone some of the affection you accept in you, blaze achievement and burn their acceptance in their alone abeyant to alive the activity they deserve, and again advice sponsor their apprenticeship from afar.
BC: What has been the all-embracing ambition with CommonCollection?
EGM: Keep growing and developing this amusing media belvedere to ultimately accomplish it as easy, as it should be, to advice area advice is needed, and to connect, allotment and accord P2P (or B2P) with the ultimate ambition to accomplish this apple added affectionate and affiliated (no pun intended).
Thank you for speaking with us, Elisabeth. It’s consistently a amusement to allocution with activists who appetite to change the approaching for the better. We too accept Bitcoin can be the apparatus to advice activists accommodate bodies assets and accustomed needs. Best of luck with CommonCollective and its approaching endeavors.
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