Enhancing Charity Systems by Leveraging Blockchain Technology and Machine Learning

The biggest obstacle that prohibits relatively wealthy individuals and organizations from donating to charities is a lack of trust, transparency, and security. It is not inconceivable to think the donated funds might not achieve the intended purpose or reach the expected audience–whether it is for cancer patients, environmental conservatism, social services, nationalized healthcare, or so on. This belief is amplified by the stories of fraudulent charities and middlemen defrauding generous donors under the pretext of social causes. Our research paper aims at designing a charity system that uses blockchain to store transaction records for charities. This solves the issues of trust, transparency, and security that plague current charity platforms. Further, we have leveraged machine learning to develop an enhanced recommendation system of charities to donors, on the basis of a calculated accountability score (which is a signature of the transparency for that charity) and donor interests.