Self-sovereign Ecolens

About

Ecolens is a mobile app for students to gain points for chosing environmentally friendly meals offered on-campus. These eco-points can be used for rewards, such as discounts for the next meals or little prices. Besides, this financial incentive, Ecolens uses gamification to additionally motivate students to chose the environemntally for facilitating (Read more on the Ecolens Project here). This repo provides the technical infrastructure to issue and verify eco-points using the Self-Sovereign Identiy paradigm that guranteeis the sovereignity of students over their private data while guranteeing the functionality of the ecolens application.

Repo overview

• Branch issuer-web-app contains a web app that issuers of eco-points can use during the conduct of their ordinary business. issuers of eco-points are restaurants or food stands on-campus that sell meals to students and use Ecolens to reward them for chosing their ecologically friendly meal choices.
• Branch verfifier-web-app contains an examplary web app that can be used by verifiers of eco-points. In general, verifiers of eco-points are legal entities that accept eco-points to give out discounts, prizes, or any other financial incentives. The examplary web app is for restaurants that allow their customers to buy meals with eco-points, thus incentivising environmentally friendly food consumption.+
• NOTE: the code in the folders issuer and verifier should be ignored!

How to...

... set up?

TBA

... start web app for issuer and verifier of eco-point Verifiable Credentials?

TBA

FAQ

Why use Ecolens as a student?

Get Eco-points which can be used to get financial rewards for eating ecofriendly meals on-campus. Share your sustainable eating habit to your fellow students to encourage them to eat ecofriendly as well...without comprising your privacy thanks to Ecolen's usage of Zero Knowledge Proofs.

Why use Ecolens as a restaurant?

Brandy your restaurant to be eco-friendly and an advocate of a sustainable future.

Why accept eco-points awarded through Ecolens for discounts, prices, and other financial incentives?

By accepting eco-points, their owners have more options to use their eco-points for financial rewards, motivating them to continue eating ecofriendly. Moreover, the more options there are to use eco-points in daily business processes, the more people will join Ecolens and thus the movement of eating stustainbly. Therefore, legal entities accepting eco-points for discounts, prices, or other financial incentives