02-08-2021, 08:48 PM
Cardano: IOG reveals world's largest blockchain deployment in Africa
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>This could be potentially huge for Cardano and cryptocurrency adoption in general</p> <p><strong>Cardano: IOG reveals world's largest blockchain deployment in Africa</strong> (from Crypto News Flash website)</p> <p><em>February 7, 2021</em></p> <p>John O'Connor, Director of African Operations at IOG, announced what promises to be mainstream blockchain adoption in Africa. Despite not being able to show much yet, he says "<em>we are at the final stages of a large government contract which would have multimillion users being onboarded into the platform for a real world blockchain implementation...</em>". The project will be a decentralized identity solution based on the Cardano blockchain that will allow people to own their personal data and interact with organizations seamlessly, privately and securely*,* which would be, in O'Connor's words, "<em>...the largest</em> (real world use case) <em>blockchain deployment done anywhere</em>"</p> <p>The article also mentions a second project in Tanzania close to being finalized. This project will focus on providing Internet access to people who do not have it.</p> <p>IOG planning to attract 100 million users in the first stage of these projects from countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria</p> <p>P.S: It won't let me post the link to the article</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nicolulpis"> /u/nicolulpis </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lewtxa/cardano_iog_reveals_worlds_largest_blockchain/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lewtxa/cardano_iog_reveals_worlds_largest_blockchain/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>This could be potentially huge for Cardano and cryptocurrency adoption in general</p> <p><strong>Cardano: IOG reveals world's largest blockchain deployment in Africa</strong> (from Crypto News Flash website)</p> <p><em>February 7, 2021</em></p> <p>John O'Connor, Director of African Operations at IOG, announced what promises to be mainstream blockchain adoption in Africa. Despite not being able to show much yet, he says "<em>we are at the final stages of a large government contract which would have multimillion users being onboarded into the platform for a real world blockchain implementation...</em>". The project will be a decentralized identity solution based on the Cardano blockchain that will allow people to own their personal data and interact with organizations seamlessly, privately and securely*,* which would be, in O'Connor's words, "<em>...the largest</em> (real world use case) <em>blockchain deployment done anywhere</em>"</p> <p>The article also mentions a second project in Tanzania close to being finalized. This project will focus on providing Internet access to people who do not have it.</p> <p>IOG planning to attract 100 million users in the first stage of these projects from countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria</p> <p>P.S: It won't let me post the link to the article</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nicolulpis"> /u/nicolulpis </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lewtxa/cardano_iog_reveals_worlds_largest_blockchain/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lewtxa/cardano_iog_reveals_worlds_largest_blockchain/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R