Decentralized technologies to make it better migration policy

Stephen O’Neal on Cointelegraph lists some problems and fields of application:
– loss of documents: that, in turn, leads to problems and delays in the bureaucratic process of their identification and acceptance into their new homeland. The same could be applied to the myriad of other aspects of life in our highly bureaucratized world. From public medical assistance to bank credits, the lack of necessary papers put refugees in an excluded position
– data security: Refugees’ personal identities are carefully re-established with the support of clever biometric systems set up by the U.N. Agency for Refugees (UNHCR). UNHCR registers millions of refugees and maintains those records in a database. But the evidence suggests that centralized systems like this could be prone to attacks
– funding: money distribution is another fundamental bureaucratic activity with a high risk of errors and malpractice. In its report about the efficiency of Greek refugee camps in the midst of the Syrian crisis, subsidized by various international bodies, The Guardian cited an anonymous senior aid’s official estimation that as much as $70 out of every $100 spent had been wasted
At the end of the article the author explains that Finland sets a global example of the use of effective technology in immigration policy: it’s using blockchain to help the newcomers get on their feet faster. For three years already, the Finnish Immigration Service has been giving asylum seekers prepaid Mastercards instead of traditional cash disbursements, and today, the program has several thousand active cardholders.