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The ixo Community is a global collaboration to build the [Blockchain for Impact](https://ixo.foundation/).
ixo is creating the rails for sustainable development initiatives to be tracked and measured more effectively and efficiently than before. This will eliminate wasteful spending on projects that have become ineffective due to corruption, fraud, incompetence or simply misuse and misallocation of funds.
The ixo protocol ensures the provenance of impact data over time, transparency of impact funding, accountability of performance, attribution for results and a marketplace mechanism for sharing impact data. The most exciting innovation for impact financing is that the ixo protocol creates a new asset class for the impact economy.
Traction thus far: In 2016, Amply, ixo’s first use case, received an $100,000 investment from the UNICEF Innovation Fund as UNICEF’s first blockchain investment. Amply is a mobile DApp that preschool teachers in South Africa use to take attendance. Every morning, a service provider (teacher or principal) logs each child's attendance in the app. Underlying the app is blockchain infrastructure and smart contracts, through which a third-party evaluator can verify the claim of attendances made by the service provider. Upon approval by an evaluator, the service provider will receive a verified record (digital or printed) that he/she can then show to the government, NGOs, and/or other parties for funding and subsidies.
The ixo Foundation is growing an impressive network of partners and collaborators who include Singularity University Ventures, The Gold Standard, Consensys, UBS Optimus, Ocean Protocol, and many others in the pipeline.
We feel that there is potential for collaboration between [Ventureo](https://ventureo.frama.wiki/start) and ixo. It would be great for you to become part of the ever growing ixo Community, and I would be happy to answer any initial questions you may have or put you directly in contact with a member of the ixo team.
All the best,
hiveblocks