I was surprised to hear that Blockchain was useful in global aid, and checked out the article. It makes some claims, but also seems pretty grandiose and non-rigorous. Some fun quotes:
“This is in contrast to a traditional database (such as Excel)”
“Blockchain, however, ensured unparalleled transparency through its publicly accessible immutable ledger”
“it is at least safe to say that social assistance programmes may never be the same again.”
It also had one other weird bit:
“In effect, the giant system, named ‘Building Blocks’, acted as a database, storing the information of refugees in a secure manner whilst not actually utilising the main unique features of the underlying blockchain technology.”.
I’m not sure if in the future projects it did use blockchain technology?
I’d be dubious of the specific claims made by this article.
Note: To be clear, I’m optimistic about technology use, but skeptical of the specific need for blockchain technologies in cases like these.
Happy to see the updates, that’s a lot of things!
I was surprised to hear that Blockchain was useful in global aid, and checked out the article. It makes some claims, but also seems pretty grandiose and non-rigorous. Some fun quotes:
“This is in contrast to a traditional database (such as Excel)”
“Blockchain, however, ensured unparalleled transparency through its publicly accessible immutable ledger”
“it is at least safe to say that social assistance programmes may never be the same again.”
It also had one other weird bit: “In effect, the giant system, named ‘Building Blocks’, acted as a database, storing the information of refugees in a secure manner whilst not actually utilising the main unique features of the underlying blockchain technology.”.
I’m not sure if in the future projects it did use blockchain technology?
I’d be dubious of the specific claims made by this article.
Note: To be clear, I’m optimistic about technology use, but skeptical of the specific need for blockchain technologies in cases like these.