bureaucracy

France, mon amour. A land of hope and change, of liberté, égalité, fraternité. Let’s be real, that radical energy often gets stuck in… grant applications. Never-ending paperwork and a Byzantine regulatory gauntlet make a confusing labyrinth. In parallel, the banking system moves at glacial speed, as though it’s still on...

Even USAID—an agency frequently identified with boots-on-the-ground humanitarian assistance—is flirting with blockchain. In particular, the U.S. International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA) has indicated a desire to use it to facilitate internal procurement. The promise is alluring: increased transparency, efficiency, and tamper-proof record-keeping. Picture this—they want a system similar to Amazon’s QLDB,...