The blockchain increasingly goes further, and not just as far as industries are concerned. Until now, the most unexpected benefits have been found for it, including charity and the tracking of those charitable funds, such as startup AID:Tech , which is working with the United Nations.



Precisely this last international organization has not been at all indifferent to blockchain technology. Now one of its most important programs: UNICEF, has just invested in its first blockchain startup. Something that came after the announcement earlier this year of its funding for open source technology companies.



In the announcement, the first 5 startups selected are actually specified as their first investment portfolio for technology resources specifically designed to cooperate in the development and humanitarian aid of children and mothers in developing countries, the main mission of UNICEF.



Among them from the most distant countries is the South African 9Needs, which will "digitally enable early child development programs in South Africa" ââby developing a self-sovereign identity and a contracting system based on blockchain and smart contracts .



The amount that will receive this startup to continue developing its pilot platform amounts to 100,000 USD, and plans to continue promoting social progress to the best style of the Bitcoin ideal, as its motto: "The future belongs to the creative who operate as free radicals ".



On the other hand, this is just the beginning of UNICEF's investments in technology solutions. Its Innovation Fund continues to invite more companies to join its new round of applications, which ends on January 1, 2017; Year in which the program plans to invest between 20 and 40 firms in which will surely include several belonging to the blockchain ecosystem.

