Innovation, Identity, and Ownership: Cashless Society 101 with Brian Asingia
Brian Asingia is the CEO and co- founder of the Dream Galaxy platform, an innovation studio that trains, advises, and funds ethical entrepreneurial leaders to launch, grow, and scale content, programs, and businesses.
Today's conversation covers a diverse range of topics that focus on and relate to what Asingia calls the Cashless Society, which in its broadest sense reframes how we as individuals and communities allocate invest and exchange value. Cashless Society is both an ethical philosophy and a technocratic ideal. This concept is already transforming transactional relationships within countries and communities around the world.
Asingia's forthcoming book, Cashless Society 101, will be published in March 2022. In his book, Asingia captures the essence of how humanity-first design and innovation can leverage technology in delivering meaningful solutions for the 21st century and beyond. By putting ethics and values first, automation, data privacy, cyber-security and other concerns of the future of work, education, health and finance can be approached in a sustainable way.
2:21 Introducing Brian Asingia & Dream Galaxy
9:56 What is the "cashless society" idea
13:17 Determining value and putting a price on things
17:48 Identity vs individuality
27:27 Asingia's personal experience of cash and corruption
32:29 Tax and the cashless society
34:13 About M-PESA and fiat currencies in Africa
41:28 Record keeping and blockchain as a means of accountability
45:32 Banking the unbanked
51:56 Google in India and post-colonial digital culture
57:15 Digitizing health records
59:57 Creative destruction: the cost of innovation
1:11:00 Innovative disruption and IP enforcement in different countries
1:13:21 Reframing ideas about ownership
1:19:00 Technology is neutral, but humans are not: the importance of regulation
1:21:43 What's next for Asingia
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Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue