According to a Remembering the circulation between Foreign Affairs and Wired's employees, the Trump administration planned to rename the US International Development Agency (USAID) into the United States Humanitarian Support (IHA) and put it directly under the Foreign Minister. Documents, on it politics first reportDeclaring that part of recombination, this agency will take advantage of Blockchain technology, as part of the shopping process.
All distributions will also be kept confidential and searched through blockchain technology to completely increase security, transparency and traceability, memorandum memorandum. This approach will encourage innovation and efficiency among implementation partners and allow more flexible and more programming to focus on tangible effects instead of simply completing activities and inputs.
The memorandum does not clarify what this means, if it will include cash transfer in a certain type of cryptocurrency or stablecoin, or simply use the blockchain ledger to monitor aid disbursement.
The memorandum of understanding when employees in USAID are trying to understand their future. The agency is the original goal of the so -called DOGE (DOGE) effectively, which was effectively led by Centibillionaire Elon Musk. Not long after the inauguration of President Trump, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bring all employees of the administrative leave agencyThen Cut its workforceand pause part of payment for partner organizations around the world, Including people doing life -saving. Since then a The Federal Judge issued a preliminary ban Against the dismantlement of the agency, but the memorandum seemed to show that the government plans to continue the mission of significantly reducing USAID and fold it completely into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Plans for Blockchain have also made employees be guarded.
Some blockchain -based projects have been achieved Large use In the field of humanitarian. Linda Raftree, a consultant that helps humanitarian organizations apply new technology, saying there is a reason for combining blockchain technology is often unnecessary.
She felt like a fake technology solution for an unrelenting problem, she said. I don't think we can find an example where people are using Blockchain where they cannot use existing tools.
Giulio Coppi, a senior humanitarian officer at the current Access Access, has studied the use of blockchain in humanitarian work, saying that blockchain technologies, while sometimes effective, has no clear advantage compared to other tools that can be used, such as existing payment systems or other database tools. Without the advantage has been shown that it is cheaper or better, he said. The way to be presented is the approach to this technology solution that has been proven many times so that there is no significant impact in reality.
However, there have been a number of successful cases of using blockchain technology in the field of humanitarian. In 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) run a small pilot To provide cash support for Ukrainians relocated by the Russian-Ukraine war in a Stablecoin. Other pilots have been tested in Kenya By Kenya Red Cross. The International Red Cross Committee, working with the Kenya group, has also helped to develop Solution of humanitarian notification code (HTS).