710668Provenance Product PassportClosedGRD Proof of ConceptInnovate UKOur relationship with the material world around us is broken. Raw materials travel through exploitative supply chains, handbags get forged, valuable items from bikes to art masterpieces get stolen or disappear, the maker behind your kitchen table is invisible and the valuable materials in the objects you no longer want often get wasted. How can we stop this disconnection between people and their possessions? How can we enable goods to change hands in a way that helps business with fair practices flourish and prevents crime and exploitation of people, animals and the natural world? Behind everything there is a story. A journey of people, places, materials, and uses. For almost every product, this story is valuable yet intangible and difficult-to-verify. We founded Project Provenance Ltd with the goal of using digital technology to enable every physical product to come with it’s provenance. We’ve already built a network that allows businesses to present the story behind any product in an open and accessible way. Bringing the process behind products to light. Now, we want to take the next step. We propose to use the Smart grant to build a system that brings even more transparency to supply chains and product life cycles. We want to develop a seamless digital “passport” that empowers authenticity and traceability of material goods. We will integrate the new disruptive blockchain technology with current information systems into the workflow of manufacturers to enable the fully transparent tracking of tagged physical items. Our solution will allow information and data to flow freely with goods without the need for intermediaries,which until now, data had to be entrusted. We will facilitate the access to blockchain technology so that control and ownership can fully lie in the hand of users. For the first time, customers will have a true choice based on authentic data to purchase original products manufactured under fair and good conditions.