{"id":31236,"date":"2020-11-04T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T09:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31236"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:40:18","slug":"un-proposes-blockchain-for-countries-losing-billions-to-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/un-proposes-blockchain-for-countries-losing-billions-to-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"UN proposes blockchain for countries losing billions to corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain technology can help governments curb corruption and economic crime. This was stated by David Robinson, regional anti-corruption adviser at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/un-drugs-and-crime-wing-advises-kenya-to-use-blockchain-against-corruption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u043f\u0438\u0448\u0435\u0442<\/a> Cointelegraph.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to him, blockchain solutions could help recover billions of dollars for countries such as Kenya, which loses up to a third of its budget each year to corruption.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBy tracking transactions, this technology can be used to prevent corruption and protect government registries from fraud and tampering,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The UN official regards blockchain as a key instrument for boosting trust.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kenyas-central-bank-weighs-issuing-a-cbdc\">considered<\/a> the advisability of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The technology was described as \u201cimpressive\u201d by central bank governor Patrick Njoroge.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain technology can help countries combat corruption and economic crime. This was stated by David Robinson, regional anti-corruption adviser at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Cointelegraph reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,137,1247],"class_list":["post-31236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-corruption","tag-united-nations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31238,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236\/revisions\/31238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}