Red Cross boosts disaster-prone communities with blockchain “cash”
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation In Kenya’s poor rural and slum communities, residents have lots to sell – from home-grown tomatoes to their labour hoeing fields or teaching children – but few people have enough cash to buy the goods and services, reducing the incentive to produce more. Barter works for some exchanges, but keeping track […]
UK royal, US ambassador tout tech tools to tackle human trafficking
Vienna, AustriaThomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s Princess Eugenie and US anti-trafficking Ambassador John Richmond joined forces on Monday, calling for technologies from smartphone apps to blockchain to disrupt the modern-day slave trade as more victims worldwide are exploited online. From recruiting and advertising on social media platforms to controlling victims via their mobile phones and laundering […]
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