AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Refugees and Migrants
KEYWORDS
blockchain, identification, humanitarian aid
COUNTRY
Netherlands
DESIGNED BY
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof and Rick Falkvinge - Bitnation
WEBSITE
https://refugees.bitnation.co
Bitnation Refugee Emergency Response
A Humanitarian aid project to provide Emergency Services and Humanitarian Aid to refugees
Bitnation Refugee Emergency Response (BRER) is a Humanitarian Aid Project of Bitnation to facilitate and provide Emergency Services and Humanitarian Aid to refugees during the European Refugee Crisis. Their objective is to utilize Blockchain technology to authenticate and validate identification through a Blockchain Emergency ID (BE-ID), provide dispute resolution as needed, and otherwise provide and locate needed services to refugees, including but not limited to, Bitnation Bitcoin Visa Debit Cards (BVDC).
Bitnation seeks to ease the burden of Receiving States during this crisis by assisting in providing secure transactions and transitional tools required to meet the current needs of refugees, and provide economic and political solutions to refugees within the Receiving State with secure, established Open Source Blockchain technology.
Bitnation seeks peaceful, diplomatic co-operation with Receiving States to help avert this crisis by extending Humanitarian Aid.