Report by Aseera Shamin, National University of Singapore The Rohingya are not just the victims of a military genocide. They are active victims of a cultural genocide as well. There is a brutal ongoing campaign of erasing all aspects of Rohingya culture and history connected to their ancestral homeland and their civic participation in Burma […]
Rohingya Historical Archive Pilot Report Read More »
30 January 2021 – The Rohingya Project, a grassroots initiative for financial and social inclusion of stateless Rohingya worldwide, has received the Catalyst Prize from the Roddenberry Foundation for the creation of an archive on the Blockchain of important historical documents for the Rohingya people, the R-Archive. The catalyst prize is awarded to early-stage and
Introduction The Rohingya Project is a grassroots initiative to uplift and empower the stateless and financially excluded Rohingya people by creating a secure and transparent digital ecosystem. The R-Academy is a new initiative under the Rohingya Project which aims to provide Rohingya people with skills that they would find applicable and necessary in their lives.
R-Academy: Providing Education & Skills to the Stateless Read More »
The last quarter has seen a noticeable decline in the market for cryptocurrency exchanges. In the broader context, this may seem like a slight dip in the view of crypto as an often volatile speculative financial tool. Crypto may now be reaching its age of maturation where it has pushed its boundaries outside of mere currency
Coin Fomania: Can Cryptocurrency Fill the Informal Gaps? Read More »
This is an action-oriented event aimed to produce concrete research and practical contributions to the Rohingya Project led by Muhammad Noor. The brainstorming sessions will be focused around key issues. You are invited to this one-day collaboration workshop to share ideas, and work together to produce future outcomes with this grassroots community organisation. This event
Collaboration Workshop at Tilburg University, Netherland on 21st Feb 2020 Read More »
ABSTRACT The report provides an assessment of a pilot project led by the Rohingya Project (RP), a Malaysia-based refugee-led non-profit social enterprise. The pilot has entailed the valorization and circulation of a blockchain-backed crypto-token called “R-Coin” (short for Refugee-Coin) to 35 participating refugee volunteers. R-Coins were distributed to refugees upon completion of voluntary community-based social
SYNOPSIS This report provides a feasibility assessment for The Rohingya Project (TRP) proposal to create self-sovereign digital identities for the stateless Rohingya diaspora, so as to facilitate financial inclusion and other opportunities otherwise unavailable to those without a nation and associated entitlements conferred on citizens of a state. The report first reviews the structural architecture
Report: Identities for Opportunities – University of Washington Read More »
Rohingya Project is grateful today to receive the Malaysian National Fundamental Recognition Award, under the Sustainability Project category. Thank you to Sustnet for this honor. The reward was received today by Sharmin, our Rohingya Project representative. The award has been given for our recent R-Coin initiative, which allows refugees to earn crypto tokens for their
Malaysian National Fundamental Recognition Award for R-Coin Read More »
MoU between CoinPlug, Rohingya Project and Bang Singapore on Digital Identity Solutions for Stateless
Partnership MoU with Coinplug Korea Read More »
Rcoin is a Crypto Token for Refugee Volunteers supported by UNHCR a total of 35 refugees took part in the pilot and collected over 570 R-Coins from early November to 20 December. The refugees took part in a variety of different community service tasks, from communal cooking, teaching, group clean-ups, computer training, transport and doing
Closing Ceremony for the Pilot of the R-Coin Read More »
