UN Regional Adviser: "Blockchain is an effective tool for fighting corruption"

David Robinson, Regional Adviser to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, that blockchain will help governments of different countries in the fight against corruption.

David Robinson (David Robinson) stated, that blockchain -based solutions allow you to fight not only corruption, but with other economic crimes. Blockchain will ensure complete trace of transactions, It will prevent a change in the data already entered and protect the documents from the fake.

According to Robinson, Due to corruption, society ceases to trust the state, And the blockchain can become an important tool for increasing confidence in the government. In particular, He mentioned Kenya-due to the lack of effective ways to combat bribery and inability to track cases of corruption, The country is losing about $6 billion of its budget.

Many countries are already considering blockchain for transparent tracking of transactions and reducing the probability of receiving bribes. So, According to the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Blockchain and large data technology can be used to safely exchange information, birth and death records, And also for accounting for registration of cars.

PERU Government and the Mezhamerikan Development Bank (IDB) Also ready to use blockchain to create a transparent system of contract purchases, which will be protected from manipulating data, unauthorized access and fraud.

This summer the World Economic Forum (WEF) Together with the Government of Colombia, they began to test the project based on the Ethereum to increase the transparency of state processes and prevent corruption. Besides, WEF came to the conclusion, that blockchain can save billions of dollars, increasing the efficiency of supplies chains.