Web 3.0 and TOMS shoes agree on several things and decentralisation is a big one. Decentralisation is the central ideal of the new Internet, of Web 3.0. It means that people and communities can interact, conduct business transactions, and work with each other without middlemen. There is no third-party control, data ownership, or misuse.
This is the same principle behind the TOMS Grassroots for Good program. Usually, a company gives money to a big charity that controls the funds, where they go, to whom they go, how they are released, and what they are used for.
Instead, TOMS believes in empowering communities and their leaders to take change into their own hands. It’s about creating a network of strong nodes instead of a hierarchy that doesn’t represent the people at the bottom.
The IMC takes the same approach to healthcare. While sending their own healthcare workers for their programs, they fund local programs and train healthcare workers worldwide. Instead of creating a chain that leads back to them, they focus on creating a network of health that expands continually, independently, and in every direction.