After talking about using blockchain to fight corruption subjects – Registration of assets, tracking of transactions, Identity management and voting – here is the second part taking a look at another corruption target i.e. government procurement. Plus a few thoughts on overall strategy with blockchain to combat corruption. All this here in the 12th episode […]
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Episode 18: Blockchain in Public sector – Part 11 (Combating Corruption)
How to solve a problem like corruption? Corruption is strongly associated with opaque, hidden transactions, distorting of documents and records. Blockchain provides transparency, and immutability. Corruption is associated with centralization and misuse of power – a strong link is observed between number of intermediaries and corruption. And Blockchain is all about decentralization. So, can blockchain […]
Episode 15: Blockchain in Public sector – Part 8 (Some examples – UAE)
Supporting a secure data exchange by Abu Dhabi Digital Authority and the Smart Dubai blockchain payment reconciliation and settlement project are a couple of UAE public sector projects. A key finding here is that the core challenge remains in strategic, operational and regulatory aspects of implementation – rather than on the technical. A brief overview […]
Episode 13: Blockchain in Public sector – Part 6 (Some insights from a few projects in Europe)
In the last couple of episodes, I shared a few examples of blockchain projects undertaken in the public sector in Europe. As a quick recap, these include – Land registry in Georgia, Academic credentials in Malta, Smart vouchers in Groningen, Netherlands, Decentralized ID management in Zug, Switzerland and Pension fund management again in Netherlands. In […]
Episode 10: Blockchain in Public sector – Part 3 (Requisite infrastructure & features)
With the context of the transforming public – private engagements shared in the last episode, I present in this episode what this entails and list out a few required facets and corresponding blockchain features that can be leveraged for the same. This is followed by main areas in public sector which hold most promise for […]