'Technology for good' making progress in China

BEIJING - If you have lost your wallet, credit card and cell phone in an earthquake, how could you get some money from a bank for emergency purposes?

Blockchain and facial recognition technologies are the answer. One could get a small amount of money from some banks' ATMs via a project called United Aid Net (UAN) based on previous input of your unique information such as facial features.

The UAN project was developed by a Chinese team called Green Coder, which made it into the top five winners of IBM's Call for Code 2018 Global Challenge, a worldwide developer competition that seeks technology solutions for natural disaster preparedness, response and recovery.