Read our full interview here:
https://proofingfuture.eu/2021/04/20/digital-impact-investment-an-interview-with-marina-petrovic-robert-pasicko-rawad-rizk-and-dr-nikola-markovic/

In this issue #10 of our DLT4EU Interview Series:
“The Social Impact Network is a decentralized ecosystem for impact investments that connects decentralized finance and real-world asset projects to create real social impact and deliver above-average yields to investors. Compared to traditional portfolios, the impact investment offered by our platform is open fund based, easily tradable, transparent, and secure due to the integration of DTL and IoT devices into the funded projects,” says Dr. Nikola Markovic of Social Impact Network as we talk with him, Marina Petrović and Robert Pašičko of UNDP AltFinLab, and Rawad Rizk of UNDP Lebanon about their project collaboration in the DLT4EU accelerator programme. 

Dr. Nikola Markovic is the CEO and CoFounder of Social Impact Network, the place where impact investors make a measurable social and environmental impact with their investment. Social Impact Network is a startup that was built during the DLT4EU accelerator program. With his expertises and enthusiasm in innovation and technology pushed the project from idea to realization. He is keen to bring the Social Impact Network further on the market and enable funding for green energy in emerging markets more accessible.

Rawad Rizk is Project Manager at UNDP Lebanon and team member of UNDP Alternative Finance Lab. He has been managing Live Lebanon, a crowdfunding platform aiming at linking the diaspora to the development effort in Lebanon with over 70 projects implemented successfully. As part of the Alternative Finance Lab team, Rawad Rizk supports the implementation of Tadamon, a NGO empowerment for poverty reduction program, which is providing capacity building and funding to CSOs in 57 countries. Rawad Rizk is a member of  the digital crowdfunding academy. an online training program, as well as managing the campaign for the Alliance to Fight Avoidable Blindness AFAB, a program that provides treatment to fight avoidable blindness in 13 countries in Africa. 

Marina Petrović is the Innovative Finance and Technology Expert at UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub as well as Cofounder of the Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab), which is an internal startup, run out of UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub for Europe and CIS. The AltFinLab is exploring how to revolutionize development finance, through innovation, digitalization and technology. Since the AltFinLab launched in 2016, Marina Petrović has been working to provide hands-on technical expertise, advisory support and market intelligence to over 45 UNDP offices, national partners and governments around the world.  

Robert Pašičko is the Cofounder of the UNDP Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab). He supports innovation in alternative finance mechanisms and in low carbon development in over 40 countries globally. He focuses on finding ways to make green energy affordable through blockchain, crowdfunding and community financing. Robert Pašičko also cofounded the UNDP Crowdfunding Academy, a training program for crowdfunding which has been implemented in over 20 countries worldwide and has created over successful 50 campaigns. He is an evaluator of blockchain projects funded by the European Commission.

DLT4EU stimulates cutting-edge distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) for public and social good by connecting the expertise of leading entrepreneurs and developers with real-world challenges and beneficiaries.

DLT4EU is led by a consortium comprised of Metabolic, Digital Catapult and Ideas for Change, with direct support and advice of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center.