Top-Down approaches to community steering won’t cut it for tackling the complex challenges we face. When confronted by rapidly evolving threats or opportunities, individuals and groups can leverage tools built on Holochain to more effectively sense, interpret, decide and act.

Today, tampering with election results is difficult to detect and even harder to prove. An application built on Holochain can make election integrity a snap, by granting voters privately readable, but publicly auditable vote receipts.

Today, people are dying because of communication problems stemming from the fact that a patient’s medical records are held not by them, but by a tangle of government agencies, hospitals and insurance companies. A patient-centric approach built on Holochain can dramatically simplify this bureaucratic nightmare by giving individuals reliable access to copies of their own history and letting them share as needed.

Today, so-called peer-to-peer online communities, such as Facebook (communication), Uber (transportation) and Airbnb (hospitality) all rely upon a monopoly in the middle that surveils, controls and extracts value from its users. Holochain can power truly peer-to-peer communities that work better for everyone precisely because they are able to coordinate with no need for a middle-man.

Today, our access to opportunities and resources is dependent upon identity information that is monopolized by governments, credit agencies and other centralized institutions. Recent security breaches, as well as the widespread refugee crisis are making visible the ways in which institution-centered identity systems create single points of failure and can leave individuals desperately vulnerable.

In contrast, Holochain puts control over identity directly in the hands of individuals by letting them leverage tamper resistant statements about their own history by government agencies, employers, or even family members and choose what to share and with whom.

Today’s approach to supply chain coordination is costly, bureaucratic and slow to adapt, with companies forced to endure painful changes in their own internal processes simply to communicate with others. By removing the reliance on a third party, a Holo approach can enable a company to more fluidly share information from their existing systems, at their discretion, and reap the benefits of improved coordination with vendors, partners and customers.

Whether you are an Impact Investor, a non-profit or just a company managing for the long-term, measuring non-monetary impacts is difficult because individuals will never all agree about the relative value of any particular outcome. By uncoupling “measurement” from “importance,” a Holo based solution can help organizations and investors see beyond the balance sheet by leveraging tamper-resistant statements that can be shared with specific decision makers who can then interpret that information based on their own priorities.