World Food Programme’s “blockchain” has one participant, i.e., it’s a database

Neat to see this written up, even if critical.

I was loosely involved with this project and the goal was to learn and expand WFP's knowledge. Folks who built this were not paid, at least for the initial build.

It's great that WFP is innovating a bit, but these things take time. I do believe WFP can benefit from exploring new ways of doing things. Maybe blockchain will help make things more efficient and transparent, maybe it won't. But to me, seems worth trying new things.