The IOTA Foundation, continuing to prove its forethought in establishing partnerships, is announcing a collaboration with nonprofit organization Refunite. This partnership, the first of its kind for IOTA and Refunite, marks a significant step forward in using distributed ledger technology for social good.
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Refunite is the world’s largest missing persons database, operating in over 25 countries, and serves as a means to help refugees of war or disaster ravaged countries find their loved ones.
Refunite co-founders Christopher and David Mikkelsen started the organization in 2009 after helping a young Afghan refugee reunite with his family after escaping from the Taliban.
Going through this experience, the two brothers recognized an immediate need for an interlinked data infrastructure that could function across borders and serve as a means to collect and distribute missing persons data, something the major international aid organizations had yet to create.
This missing element, a distributed ledger to record and verify information on refugees seeking to reunite with their families, speaks to IOTA founder David Sonstebo’s own philosophy on the growing global refugee population.
Read more: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/iota-foundation-enters-historic-partnership-with-refugee-nonprofit/
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