The crowdfunding platform as a tool for islamic social finance’s implementation

Abstract

Islamic social finance is becoming discussed direction, social financial tools of have been implemented
for poverty and hunger alleviation in society for more than a thousand years. While financial
technology is one of the most important innovations developing at the swift-speed, partly driven by
information technology and favorable regulation.
The paper aims to research the role of financial technology in solving social challenges in the country
through Islamic social instruments. The authors have studied financial indicators and the effectiveness of
the crowdfunding platform implementation for zakat collection. Nowadays, a lack of studies on Islamic
social finance direction in academics increases the relevance of the article, which contains theoretical
aspects and provides practical recommendations for crowdfunding platform integration.
The methodology of the study is based on the estimation of the crowdfunding platform’s financial
plan, cash-flow revenue, and financial indicators for realistic and optimistic scenarios blockchain technology
based and without blockchain. The assessment of the Islamic finance social tools’ effectiveness
demonstrates, that the crowdfunding platform elaboration is effective for overcoming social challenges.
Specifically, the authors explored the socio-economic effectiveness in the form of saving the state resources
for targeted social assistance to population. Furthermore, it was suggested, that crowdfunding
platform elaboration is the way for Islamic social finance promotion and financial technological advancement
in the country.
Key words: Islamic social finance, zakat, a crowdfunding platform, social effectiveness, financial
technology.