Blockchain for Humanity!

Blockchain put to use for Humanity!

The world is at war! In-spite of various global leaders mentioning that the world is now going to be at peace and the war is officially over, it doesn’t seem so. Terrorist organisations keep flourishing and the governments keep battling with them. The people who suffer or get crushed in these situations are the local populations of those zones.

In the recent Syrian crisis we saw many countries opening up their hearts and welcome refugees from these war affected regions. But who are these refugees? Can anyone identify an engineer amongst them or can anyone identify the doctor? Do these refugees lose their identities along with their homes, their money and their livelihood and unfortunately even families sometimes?

Not only them, there are so many other individuals like kids who get trafficked, people affected by natural calamities, homeless or the mentally weak individuals, who lose their identities in various situations.  

According to the world bank,”There are over a billion people who have no way to prove their identity. The un-verified include refugees, trafficked children, the homeless and other people who slip through society without developing many institutional affiliations.”

To change this scenario, blockchain experts are working with UN to help a bunch of these people under the “World food program.” In a grocery and essentials store at a UN refugee camp near the Syrian border, Iris scan technology is being used to allocate aid to refugees. The UN’s program gives each refugee 25 euros a month. That cash doesn’t get stored in banks or can’t be given as cash. It is rather stored on a Blockchain. Every time an individual picks up his daily essentials and reaches up to the counter to check out, he scans his retina in a black box instead of his card or pin and pay for his supplies.

On the blockchain each refugee is identified by a unique code. The information is not stored centrally, it’s managed by thousands of nodes and multiple servers. This makes the decentralised system Super secure. Using this the UN knows who brought what and utilised their aid. Misuse of aid is also vastly avoided through this system.

This program was launched from the office of, Bernhard Kowatsch in Munich with a vision to make the aid work more cost effective and transparent. He now envisions to roll out the program for 100,000 people of Jordan h the end of the year, and simultaneously work to take this to other countries.

This kind of a blockchain can be updated in the future to add so much more information. People who are affected by war or any natural calamities also, can store their personal data like certifications, identity proofs and other important documents on the blockchain for their safety.

With such new uses of blockchain being developed and grown the trust of people on blockchain keeps getting strengthened and the technology starts to get their best use cases.

If you have a use case for this technology and wish to take it beyond, reach out to me at akshay@blockinventos.com.