Trump’s management wants the International Technology Agency on Blockchain

According to The Trump administration, the memorandum that takes place between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its review by WIRE to rename the United States International Development Agency (the US Agency for the US Development) as an American international humanitarian assistance (IHA), and bring it directly under the Foreign Minister. The document, which politico I mentioned for the first timeIt states that as part of its reorganization, the agency will benefit from Blockchain technology “as part of its purchase.

“All distributions will also be secured and followed via Blockchain technology to radically increase security, transparency and track,” says the memo. “This approach would encourage innovation and efficiency between executing partners and allow more flexible programming and response focused on the concrete impact rather than just completing activities and inputs.”

The memorandum does not clarify what this specifically means – if it will include cash transfer operations in a type of encrypted currency or stablecoin, for example, or simply means using the Blockchain notebook to track the disbursement of aid.

The memorandum comes as employees at USAID try to understand their future. The agency was an early target of the so -called Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), which was actually headed by Centibillionaire Elusk. Soon after the inauguration of President Trump, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Put the entire agency staff on an administrative leaveand The workforce was reducedAnd it stopped part of the payments for partner organizations all over the world, Including those who do life saving. Since then a The federal judge issued a preliminary judicial order Against the dismantling of the agency, but it seems that the memo indicates that the administration has plans to continue its mission of reducing the US International Development Agency significantly and fully fully to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Blockchain plans have caught the guard.

A few Blockchain projects managed to achieve Wide -range use In the human sector. There is a reason for this – the integration of Blockchain technology is often unnecessary.

“It looks like a fake technology solution to a problem that does not exist,” she says. “I don’t think we were able to find an unprecedented as people were using Blockchain where they could not use the existing tools.”

Julio Kobe, a senior human arrival official who has now searched the use of Blockchain in humanitarian work, says, although it is not effective at times, no clear advantages on other tools can use, such as the current payment system or another database. “There is no feature that has proven cheaper or better,” he says. “The way in which it was presented is the local technical approach that has been repeatedly proven because there is no major influence in reality.”

However, there were some successful cases of Blockchain technology in the humanitarian sector. In 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UN Commission for Refugees) A small pilot ran To provide cash assistance to the Ukrainians displaced by the war of Russia in Stablecoin. The other pilots were It was tested in Kenya By the Red Cross Association, Kenya. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which works with the Kenya team, also helped develop Human symbolic solution (hts).