Tecnológico de Monterrey student was chosen by the United Nations (UN) to be part of the The Millennium Fellowship after becoming known after presenting a project where it is applied technology blockchain aimed at refugees and migrants in Mexico.
Regina Reséndiz, 20 years old, student of International Relations and Government and Public Transformation, was the one among the entire class that corresponds to this year, the one selected to be part of the leadership development program during a semester of The Millennium Fellowship of which the HIM-HER-IT be part. This is to continue developing and investigating his project created to provide support to migrants and refugees who are in Mexican territory.
The Millenniuum Fellowship It is a program in which they help participants to develop leadership through tools.
This program lasts one semester and is carried out at the Millennium Fellowship facilities and they also have contact between participants and carry out joint activities.
At the end of the time of stay, fulfilling all the expectations and objectives, the members obtain a certificate from the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network.
The project is based on financial support to all those people who are at a disadvantage within the country due to their immigration status, the young woman proposes that both the government and companies can do it from blockchain technology due to the security it provides at the time of data transfer since once it has been registered and verified it cannot be edited, so that they can provide the financial services without taking any risk.
“The project consists of establishing a technological system at key points of the route through which migrants and refugees pass. Example: convenience stores. That their information is in the cloud and (companies) can access it through the systems. For example, they have savings or they get a job and they don’t have to be carrying money or documents because the information is in the systems. So they can continue on their way without carrying it, ”Regina explained according to the publication made on the Tecnológico de Monterrey news portal.
The project began while the young woman was still in high school and had to write a research monograph about a social project that should be related to technology at the same time.
This led Regina to lean towards the project “Building Blocks”Of the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) that took place in Jordan in a refugee center, where she was more attracted to research on the well-known blockchain.
Later Reséndiz entered the university, where he presented his monograph at the 50th Research and Development Congress held by the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
“After there I said ‘I really like this song.’ So I kept looking into it; Between the classes for Tec21 it is a lot of challenges, so it was always solving a problem for migrants, the classes were helping me a lot to develop the project even more ”, commented the student, this was announced by the Tecnológico de Monterrey in its news section on the portal web.
For the youth day, UNHCR named seven people around the world as Youth Champion to those young people who stood out in the presentation of projects and measures to benefit the solution of humanitarian needs in the community. from each of them.
Therefore, in addition to being awarded by the UN, Regina Reséndiz was awarded the Youth Champion among young people from Singapore, China, Asia, United Kingdom, Kenya, Syria e India for his project in favor of the rights of people who are in refugee status.
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