Iris scan at Sameh Market
Jordan, Al-Azraq, 29.01.2018. Betzahlung with the help of iris scan and blockchain technology in the supermarket "Sameh Market" in the refugee camp Al-Azraq in Jordan on 29.01.2018. The refugee camp Al-Azraq is the second largest camp in Jordan with 35 thousand inhabitants. By the end of December 2017, Jordan had taken in 737,443 refugees. In the Azraq refugee camp, in the middle of the Jordanian desert, refugees from Syria can pay for their purchases by iris scan and blockchain technology. The crypto-currency Etherum is mainly known as a competitor of Bitcoin. But now the United Nations used them to distribute cryptographically secured food coupons to refugees in Jordan. In the project, the Innovation Accelerator of the UN World Food Programme, the Ethereum developers from Parity Technologies, the Blockchain Big Data company Datarelle and the London-based manufacturer of iris recognition hardware, IrisGuard, are cooperating. [automated translation]