{"id":558,"date":"2017-10-23T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T22:12:01","slug":"abstract-accenture-and-microsoft-plan-digital-ids-for-millions-of-refugees-on-bbc-com-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/abstract-accenture-and-microsoft-plan-digital-ids-for-millions-of-refugees-on-bbc-com-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract: Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees on BBC.com News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees<\/em> on BBC.com News<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-40341511\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-40341511 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe broader idea is a digital ID network using blockchain technology to connect public and commercial records so people have access to their information from anywhere. The system would use biometrics to physically identify a person and connect that to their name and records. This article then talks about a plan for a network that aid agencies could use to create a record for each refugee and then attach information as they work with the refugee. The information could then be shared among agencies so duplicate work is avoided.\u00a0 Blockchain is defined here as \u201ca digital ledger of transactions, agreements, contracts, anything that needs to be independently recorded and verified as having happened.\u00a0 This technology has potential to become a central decentralized place to store each person\u2019s identity\/information so it is not fragmented across owned systems but accessible in one place (one login).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees on BBC.com News http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-40341511 The broader idea is a digital ID network using blockchain technology to connect public and commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-558","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75994,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/75994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}