Fast Company Recognizes RippleNami in “2021 World Changing Ideas”
RippleNami Uganda Receives Company “On the Rise” in Fast Company’s 5th Annual World Changing Ideas Awards.
San Diego – May 14, 2021, RippleNami Uganda, a technology company, delivering traceability and transparency solutions supporting Uganda’s governments, businesses, and individuals, has been recognized by Fast Company for the 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards. Receiving honorable mention in the “On the Rise” category, RippleNami/RippleNami Uganda is recognized among “Companies that have achieved incredible impact and have been in business under four years.”
“Using RippleNami technology, RippleNami Uganda partnered with the Government of Uganda to implement the world’s first-ever modern tax system that leverages blockchain technology, referred to as the Rental Tax Compliance System (rTCS™),” explains RippleNami Uganda’s Chairman and CEO Jaye Connolly-LaBelle. “It is so meaningful to be recognized by Fast Company in this way. We are truly dedicated to creating positive change for the people of Uganda and around the world through the RippleNami technology.”
Now in its fifth year, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas recognize companies and organizations addressing the world’s most intractable problems through technology, science, design, finance, education, and philanthropy.
“For the past five years, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards have honored the businesses and organizations driving change in the world,” Fast Company said in announcing the honorees. “This year, the entries reflect a range of exceptional work helping to fight the pandemic and to support people during the crisis—and the necessity of rethinking how society emerges from the past year better than before. We received more than 3,000 entries, an all-time record. The 34 winners and hundreds of other finalists—selected by Fast Company’s editors and reporters—represent the kind of innovative thinking that will help us channel the optimism and hope of this moment into a better future.”
About RippleNami | RippleNami supports governments, businesses, and individuals with traceable and transparent technology solutions. RippleNami’s suite of products facilitates traceability and transparency through blockchain-based data collection, aggregation, analytics, and visualization. The technology is easily customizable, user-friendly, and cost-effective, enabling organizations to assemble and quickly access data critical to their operations. With endless applications, RippleNami technology puts the power of big data and sophisticated technology directly into the hands of governments, organizations, businesses and individuals so they can focus on what’s most important – visualizing their world.
About The World Changing Ideas Awards | World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving problems that affect us all.