Can blockchain break shackles of 40 million people caught in modern slavery?
- Diginex works with governments and NGOs on blockchain-enabled systems to ensure contract details and workers’ whereabouts are clearly recorded
- Pilot project aims to help at-risk migrant workers in garment industry unable to access employment contracts, leading to lower pay and longer hours
When the topic of blockchain comes up, most people think of cryptocurrencies – something that Mark Blick, head of government solutions at Diginex, would like to change.
A global blockchain solutions and financial services company headquartered in Hong Kong, Diginex offers digital asset management and infrastructure support for blockchain transactions, along with custom blockchain solutions.
Modern slavery affects an estimated nine million new people every year, which is roughly 25,000 every day – or one new slave every four seconds
As part of this, the company works with governments and NGOs around the world to help design and implement complex public sector blockchain projects across a wide range of applications.
The company has teamed up with the anti-slavery organisation, The Mekong Club, in using blockchain-enabled systems to identify and eradicated supply-chain inequities to help the more than 40 million people – many of them migrant workers – who are trapped in modern slavery, working in low-paid sectors such the garment industry.
