Rohingya Muslims, the world’s largest stateless minority, will have better access to services like hospitals, education and banking, thanks to a new blockchain-based digital identity initiative. The Rohingya Project plans to issue its first 1,000 digital IDs to Rohingya in Malaysia, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia beginning in 2018, according to Reuters. There are more than 4 million […]
A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION is using blockchain technology to provide stateless Rohingya refugees who fled Burma (Myanmar) with digital identity cards in a pilot project aimed at giving access to services like banking and education. The first 1,000 people to benefit from the project in 2018 will be members of the diaspora in Malaysia, Bangladesh and
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – S tateless Rohingya who fled Myanmar are set to receive digital identity cards using blockchain technology in a pilot project seeking to help them access services like banking and education. The first 1,000 people to benefit from the project in 2018 will be members of the diaspora
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stateless Rohingya who fled Myanmar are set to receive digital identity cards using blockchain technology in a pilot project seeking to help them access services like banking and education. The first 1,000 people to benefit from the project in 2018 will be members of the diaspora in Malaysia, Bangladesh
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The Rohingya, whom experts say are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, are a stateless Indo-Aryan people from Rakhine State, Myanmar. They have been subjected to abuse for a number of years, particularly after the enactment of the Burma Citizenship Law in 1982, which officially left the Rohingya stateless. There were an
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