11/2-11/4: BGIN Block #4 meeting (Virtual Nairobi/Lome/Accra)

Date / Time
- November 2 - November 4, 2021 (Tuesday - Thursday)
- 12:00 pm - 15:00 UTC
Meeting Report
Click here to view the meeting report from the block #4 meeting.
Who should attend?
- Developers
- Regulators
- Business entities
- Consumers
- Civil society
- Academia
- And anyone interested in blockchain ecosystems!
Draft Agenda
Day 1: Tuesday, November 2 * 12:00-15:00 UTC
12:00-13:00 Opening Plenary [BGIN Draft Code of Conduct] [BGIN Draft Note Well]
- Opening Remarks
- Opening Remarks: Mai Santamaria
- Welcome Address from local hosts
- Introduction of BGIN: Shin’ichiro Matsuo
- Reports and introduction of Day 2 sessions from BGIN Working Groups
- IAM, Privacy & Key Management Working Group: Nat Sakimura
- Bylaws Task Force: Nii Quaynor and Ryosuke Ushida
- Decentralized Treasury Working Group
- BGIN Steering Committee: Shin’ichiro Matsuo
- Decision making process at general meetings
5 minute break.
13:00-14:00 Invited talks: Adoption of blockchain for development in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDE)
- Session moderator: Bernard Avle, Economist/Ghanaian Media personality
- Dr. Ernest Addison, Governor, Bank of Ghana
- Nobuyasu Sugimoto, IMF
- Prof. Bitange Ndemo, Professor of Entrepreneurship/Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications in Kenya
- FATF (TBD)
14:00-15:00 Open discussion: What regulatory environment for blockchain and crypto assets development in EMDE: AML/KYC/FATF/risks/financial security?
- Panelist 1: Kwame Oppong, Fintech Department, Bank of Ghana
- Panelist 2: Erik Feyen, Head Global Macro-Financial Monitoring and Lead Financial Sector Economist, World Bank Group
- Panelist 3: OECD
- Panelist 4: Nobuyasu Sugimoto, IMF
- Panelist 5: Roselyne Wanjiru, Lead On-Chain Analyst, Utafiti, Nairobi, Kenya
- Panelist 6: Alain Aina, Trstech, Lome, Togo
- Panelist 7: Muthoni Njogu, Njogu & Associates Advocates, Nairobi, Kenya
Day 2: Wednesday, November 3 * 12:00-16:00 UTC
12:00-13:00 Bylaw-Task Force (Co-chairs: Nii Quaynor and Ryosuke Ushida)
- Goals of the session
- Gather feedback from participants on BLTF’s ideas/proposals for the preliminary by-law
- Ask for approval for the tentative document finalization/publication process
- Call for contributions to the BLTF!
- Agenda
- Introduction of By-law Task Force
- Lecture on the Internet Governance (ISOC-IETF): [Presentation materials]
- Progress report and roadmap: [Presentation materials]
- Open discussion
- AOB
13:00-14:00 Decentralized Treasury Working Group
- DTWG introduction (Leon Molchanovsky, Co-Chair DTWG) - 5 min
- DTWG raison d’etre (Drew Wallin, Relationship Manager, IOHK) - 10 min
- Bonds as Time Machines (Ali Nejadmalayeri, Co-Chair DTWG, Professor of Finance, University of Wyoming) – 10 min
- Dash Investment Foundation (Ryan Taylor, CEO - Dash Core Group) – 10 min
- Risk Framework Overview for Decentralized Treasury (Andrew Collingworth, Managing Director, Collingworth Consulting) – 10 min
- Q&A period - 15 min
14:00-15:00 IAM, Key Management and Privacy Working Group (Chair: Nat Sakimura)
- Introduction of IKP WG/SGIP
- Briefings on documents in progress
- Inputs from participants
- Any other business
5 minute break.
15:00-16:00 Unconference Session (in parallel at two/three breakout rooms)
- Examples of topics:
- Ransomware reaction
- NFT
- Decentralized technology
- Energy consumption
- Decentralized funding of research
Day 3: Thursday, November 4 * 12:00-15:00 UTC
12:00-13:00 Presentations from local blockchain community
- Session moderator: Elly Ohene-Adu, Digital Financial Services Specialist, Accra, Ghana
- Presentation 1: Alain Aina, Trstech, Lome, Togo
- Presentation 2: Roselyne Wanjiru, Lead On-Chain Analyst, Utafiti, Nairobi, Kenya
- Presentation 3: Dr. Settor Amediku, Director, Payment systems, Bank of Ghana
13:00-13:30 Talk: Adoption of Cryptocurrency to Developing Countries
- Luis Rodríguez, El Salvador
- Lord Fusitu’a, Tonga
5 minute break.
13:30-14:15 Administrative Matters and Future Roadmap
- Administrative matters
- Future roadmap
- Potential work items
- Potential new working groups and task forces
14:15-15:00 Closing Plenary
- Reports back from Working Groups/Task Force
- Internal Governance Working Group
- IAM, Key Management and Privacy Working Group
- Decentralized Treasury Working Group
- ByLaw Task Force
- Preliminary ByLaw
- New activities
- The next general meeting - Block #5: Spring 2022 (Tokyo, Japan)
- Closing remarks by Mai Santamaria