{"id":683,"date":"2018-03-20T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=683"},"modified":"2018-07-31T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:27:02","slug":"promise-hype-provides-blockchain-safe-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/promise-hype-provides-blockchain-safe-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Promise or hype: Provides Blockchain a Safe Identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/03\/Untitled-1-720x446.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/03\/Untitled-1-720x446.png 720w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/03\/Untitled-1-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/03\/Untitled-1-1080x668.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/03\/Untitled-1.png 1081w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/04\/fs.pdf\">The Promise of Blockchain and Safe Identity Storage for Refugees<\/a>, by Monique J. Morrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/04\/Karl.pdf\">The Enlightenment\u2019s Social Contract vs. the Crypto-Identity of Contemporary Cyber Capitalism<\/a>, by Karl Steinacker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/610806\/inside-the-jordan-refugee-camp-that-runs-on-blockchain\/\">Connectivity Inside the Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain<\/a>, by\u00a0MIT Technology Review (Copyright \u00a9 2018, All rights reserved MIT Technology Review; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\">www.technologyreview.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two articles, Monique J. Morrow explores the opportunities of safe identity storage which blockchain technology offers and Karl Steinacker underlines the importance of State regulation for technological development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","category-digital-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}