Houman Haddad from United Nations: Reducing Costs for the UN’s World Food Programme

Host Adi Ben-Ari is joined by Houman Haddad, Head of Emerging Technologies at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). They explore the application of blockchain in humanitarian assistance and the shift from in-kind aid to cash-based transfers, weighing the benefits and the challenges. The conversation centres on "Building Blocks", the WFP's blockchain platform, which Applied Blockchain helped build from its 2017 engagement with the UN, one of the largest humanitarian applications of the technology, used by millions of refugees while reducing transaction and bank fees.