Ericsson   and Bahrain telecom operator, Batelco, part of the Beyon Group, have deployed Blockchain enabled Ericsson Customer Acceptance platform.  As per the press release, the customer acceptance platform is   an enterprise blockchain solution for the automated collection of acceptance records upon fulfilment of agreed project deliverables. Batelco is the first telecommunication service provider to deploy the solution.   Ericsson Customer Acceptance (ECA) provides significant and impactful results to the customer acceptance process. It reduces the time spent on acceptance-related activities per site by up to 42 percent, thereby achieving faster time-to-market with accuracy. ECA also simplifies the process by providing a single interface for submitting and approving acceptance documents and displaying real-time status of every acceptance item submitted to the platform. Combined with other services and software capabilities, ECA also helps reduce CO2 emiss...

  UAE Farmsent, a blockchain platform for farmers and producers where they can directly supply goods to the consumers, has merged with Bahrain Beanboat, pioneers of coffee direct-trade in MENA. BeanBoat created Bahrain’s first coffee subscriptions service. Their offerings brought coffee shops and roasters some of the best and rarest coffee in the world owing to their extensive network of farmers in Colombia. Beanboat has merged with Farmsent allowing them to tap on Farmsent’s extensive reach with clients in the MENA regions and network farmers in Colombia, and combining it with the power of Web3 of Farmsent’s network to push for the next generation of trade. Yog Shrusti, CEO and Co-Founder of Farmsent stated, “Our mission at Farmsent is to connect farmers directly with people who are looking for quality, sustainable, traceable products. With Beanboat’s knowledge of the MENA region, we will continue to lead the way in bringing people across the region together around sustainab...

  More and more Arab females are starting to enter the blockchain ecosystem, and are being recognized for their Blockchain projects. This month both in Oman as well as Saudi Arabia, young women developed blockchain projects that will add value to their economies and societies.  Oman in its efforts to support SMEs (Small Medium Sized), has accepted and will be funding a project developed by Egyptian engineer Mirna Mohamed. The blockchain enabled project looks to oversee the value added tax system that is being utilized in the Oman today. In an interview Mirna Mohamed states, “My father is a credit manager and for him this was an important topic so he assisted me in developing an accounting budget system using latest technologies which included new value added tax system in Oman. I chose Blockchain because it is one of the best technologies that allow the Oman government to review and oversee the accounting procedures of different companies including their VAT disclosures....