The secretary-general of the Organization of the United Nations (UN), the Portuguese António Guterres, gave a boost to the technology of accounting distributed (DLT), or blockchain, to affirm that is needed to help accelerate and achieve the Objectives of Sustainable Development.The officer is of the that believes that this technology, original of Bitcoin as a digital system, could be key if it is well applied for help, for example, to eradicate poverty, hunger, ensuring healthy lives, to have a quality education or to attain equality between the genders.“For the United Nations to best meet our mandate in the digital era, we need to adopt technologies such as blockchain that can help accelerate the achievement of the Objectives of Sustainable Development,” said Guterres in a communication sent to Forbes.The Objectives of Sustainable Development is a list of 17 points that was adopted by the UN in 2015 as a plan of action to help people and the planet to achieve higher levels of prosperity, quality of life and promote sustainable economic growth, among other aspects.The secretary of the UN, one of the most important organizations on the global scale, see potential in the chains of blocks for human development, sent a clear signal about the utility that networks offer decentralized, not only in the financial aspect as in the case of cryptocurrencies, but also in the social area, human rights and the environment.
Blockchain as a global trend
The potential approach of the UN with the blockchains are going to tune with the global trend of other organizations and countries that have already announced their development or that are already working on them. The most recent and highest-impact news was the announcement by the president of China, Xi Jinping, who bet big on this technology to say that his country must assume leadership in this field that is in the process of expansion.A similar view, although oriented to the social area, has mentioned the European Commission. This organization believes that the blockchains has the potential to benefit the society in multiple fields, from food distribution, to the care of refugees in Europe.Now, in the words of Guterres, the decentralized networks of this type could gain more exhibition and to awaken greater interest among those who still only associate it with the cryptocurrencies. In Latin america there are many projects that are based on blockchains. So is the recent case of Brazil, which will trigger a register of foreign trade with the countries members of Mercosur (Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) for greater transparency in their exchanges.Another recent case is that of Argentina where the volunteers involved with social work in a soup kitchen in Buenos Aires will be rewarded with a token.The DLT is a technology that enables two or more people can perform any type of transaction without the intervention of intermediaries or trusted third parties. That is to say, the participants used the Internet through a platform encrypted to send information person-to-person.