The UN branch, called the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), will work with the IOTA to improve the management of UN records using the distributed IOTA open-source ledger. The announcement of the partnership came out on Tuesday, the 22nd of May. The co-founder of IOTA Dominik Schiener supported the idea of ​​cooperation by saying:

"We are thrilled to begin working together with UNOPS and to tackle current and future challenges together. The IOTA Foundation is fully committed to putting the IOTA Tangle to work on behalf of important humanitarian and development causes."

The technology is going to advance administering and validating important documents, provide a real-time transaction system. The goal of the project is to include all connected devices by checking the accuracy and transactional calculations that contribute to the development of these devices in order to provide their properties and data in real time, which is one of the features why the UN chose IOTA for cooperation. The special adviser on the blockchain technology at UNOPS, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, said that the ledger can work with batteries or alternative charging methods, which can be very useful for territories that do not have constant access to the Internet or even electricity. As this collaboration will become a kind of experiment, Yamamoto is not sure how long it will take to fully implement the IOTA technology. He said that it depends on many factors, which include the complexity of the problem, the type of software, the user's participation, so the results will be difficult to predict. In the nearest future, IOTA technology will be supported by IoT devices that do not have high processing power requirements. The UN considers this technology very promising, arguing that the organization would not cooperate with the project unless it proved its potential. Subscribe to The Coin Shark news in Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_coinshark