{"id":24521,"date":"2020-11-07T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/07\/vanuatu-pioneers-digital-cash-as-disaster-relief"},"modified":"2020-11-07T05:00:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T20:00:50","slug":"vanuatu-pioneers-digital-cash-as-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24521","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu pioneers digital cash as disaster relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable to cyclones, volcanoes and the impacts of climate change, the Pacific archipelago is using blockchain technology to provide aid money directly to families recovering from natural disasters<\/p>\n<p>The most at-risk country on earth to natural disasters, Vanuatu has endured two major volcanic eruptions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/10\/its-all-gone-cyclone-harold-cuts-a-deadly-path-through-vanuatu\">two category five cyclones<\/a> in the past half-decade, affecting more than half the population.<\/p>\n<p>Through resolute border closures, the Pacific archipelago has escaped infection from Covid-19, but the resultant loss of tourism revenues has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/pacific-states-face-instability-hunger-and-slow-road-to-covid-recovery-dame-meg-taylor\">devastated the local economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/07\/vanuatu-pioneers-digital-cash-as-disaster-relief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable to cyclones, volcanoes and the impacts of climate change, the Pacific archipelago is using blockchain technology to provide aid money directly to families recovering from natural disastersThe most at-risk country on earth to natural disaster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,41,59,393,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-asia-pacific","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521\/revisions\/24522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}