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An employee of tech start-up Sendy, which offers online logistics services, works on her computer at their office in Nairobi, Kenya Image: REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Nadia Hewett

Project Lead, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, World Economic Forum

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