by Colm Gorey
13 Dec 2017
A Sudanese father and refugee provides biometrics during registration in Goz Amir camp, Chad. Image: UNHCR/SA Jeffries
Millions of people around the world are ‘invisible’ with no form of identity, but blockchain and other technologies could help solve this.
There are
more than 1bn people across the globe who have no form of identity, and this is a massive problem.
Imagine trying to flee a war-torn land and making it to another country, only to be told that there was no record of you existing, so giving you asylum will be difficult, if not impossible. Or perhaps your child needs to receive a life-saving vaccine, but the charities that hold records on children in the country don’t have any record of their birth.
This latter case was what drove Dakota Gruener to take her work with NGOs and join ID2020, an alliance of governments, NGOs and the private sector – particularly the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – to use technology to give [...]
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