NAIROBI — While some players in the international aid sector are capitalizing on blockchain technology to improve programming, others in the sector are also using the technology internally in their organizations, in areas such as improving efficiencies around human resource processes.
Blockchain has been praised as the next major transformative technology in development and humanitarian relief, mainly because of its potential to create efficiencies in areas such as supply chain logistics. The technology uses a decentralized network to record and authenticate transactions and is valued because of its heightened security, transparency, and ability to streamline processes.
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Sara Jerving
Sara Jerving is Devex's East Africa Correspondent based in Nairobi. She is a reporter and producer, whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Vice News, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Nation magazine, among others. Sara holds a master's degree in business and economic reporting from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow.
