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Can blockchain help fix the I.D. problem for a billion people?  | Fixing Aid

Can blockchain help fix the I.D. problem for a billion people? | Fixing Aid

FromThe New Humanitarian


Can blockchain help fix the I.D. problem for a billion people? | Fixing Aid

FromThe New Humanitarian

ratings:
Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Mar 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Is there an efficient and secure way for refugees and others who have had to leave their homes and documents behind to establish and access digital I.D.s?  In this episode of Fixing Aid, host Alae Ismail hears from a student who had to flee Sudan without I.D. papers and how that complicated his journey towards claiming asylum. She also speaks to two blockchain technology startups that are working in humanitarian environments to try to create secure methods to access identification.   Guests: Khalid Maliki, co-founder of Tykn; Sharanya Thakur, project manager at Gravity.
Released:
Mar 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The New Humanitarian brings you an inside look at the conflicts and natural disasters that leave millions of people in need each year, and the policies and people who respond to them. Join TNH’s journalists in the aid policy hub of Geneva and in global hotspots to unpack the stories that are disrupting and shaping lives around the world.