Programmable Donations: Exploring Escrow-based Conditional Giving

Elsden, Chris, Trotter, Ludwig, Harding, Mike, Davies, Nigel, Speed, Chris and Vines, John (2019) Programmable Donations: Exploring Escrow-based Conditional Giving. In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19): May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK. CHI (19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, p. 379. ISBN 9781450359702

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Abstract

This paper reports on a co-speculative interview study with charitable donors to explore the future of programmable, conditional and data-driven donations. Responding to the rapid emergence of blockchain-based and AI-supported financial technologies, we specifically examine the potential of automated, third-party ‘escrows’, where donations are held before they are released or returned based on specified rules and conditions. To explore this we conducted pilot workshops with 9 participants and an interview study in which 14 further participants were asked about their experiences of donating money, and invited to co-speculate on a service for programmable giving. The study elicited how data-driven conditionality and automation could be leveraged to create novel donor experiences, however also illustrated the inherent tensions and challenges involved in giving programmatically. Reflecting on these findings, our paper contributes implications both for the design of programmable aid platforms, and the design of escrow-based financial services in general.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Charity, Blockchains, Automation, Conditionality
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
W200 Design studies
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Design
Depositing User: Paul Burns
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2019 15:10
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 11:15
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/38367

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