United Nations (UN) secretary-general Antio Guterres explicit the group should embrace blockchain know-how. According to a Dec. 28 Forbes report, Guterres believes that blockchain necessarily to be among the many applied sciences used by the UN.
"For the United Nations to ship higher on our mandate inside the digital age, we have to embrace applied sciences like blockchain that may assist speed up the accomplishment of Sustainable Development Goals," he explicit.
This will not be the primary time that Guterres spoke extremely of the potential of blockchain know-how. As Cointelegraph reported in July final yr, on the time he created a "High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation," which explicitly put blockchain know-how on the agenda.
In September 2019, he in addition spoke of how impression in nationwide establishments, amongst states and in a rule-based world order has declined and the way applied sciences, notably blockchain, may also help palliate the problem. Still, he spoke much less positively about cryptocurrencies:
"Organized criminal networks lurk on the dark web, profiting from encoding and near-anonymous cryptocurrency payments to dealings in people and embezzled goods."
Similarly, in late August, chief of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Cybercrime Program Neil Wals warned that crypto makes combating cash laundering well more durable.
United Nations and blockchain
Since Guterres created the digital cooperation program, blockchain use on the United Nation's half has seen important progress. As Cointelegraph not too lang syne reported, the UN launched a blockchain instrument aiming to stop the exploitation of migrant staff in Hong Kong with a blockchain medium of exchange companies agency earlier this month.
According to July studies, the UN can also be engaged on blockchain options for property city growth in Afghanistan.
Lastly, in April the president of the United Nations' specialised company for aviation has explicit that blockchain know-how may provide great advantages throughout aviation techniques globally.
