The County Administrative Board of Skåne in southern Sweden believes that blockchain-solutions – referendums, e-petitions, elections, etc. could widen or enhance citizen participation. This is the story of their search for tools and solutions to make this happen.
MultiWallet aims to provide a generic platform that works across local governments to enable more targeted and more joined up service delivery. This is a new way of working that could enable the targeting of specific groups with services that the users are ‘pre–qualified’ to receive.
The University of Oldenburg and the City of Oldenburg work together to develop a blockchain-enabled solution which could be used for users and organisations to verify or validate a registration / health certificate, and ensure the integrity and source of these certificates.
Here are 10 of the most important lessons BLING has learned about how blockchain will – and will not – change government services – including the importance of collaboration, the shift to co-delivery of serivces, changes in partnership working, and giving citizens control of their data.
Roeselare issues a Leisure Pass (Vrijetijdspas) to citizens on limited incomes: this pass provides a range of discounts to citizens. The pass is hard to administer and Roeselare is looking to develop a blockchain-enabled solution that allows for better coordination between delivery partners.
Blockchain enables new ways of working, which should change how we think about the ways we change government services. Here are lessons from BLING on changing ways organisations work and collaborate, the adoption of new technologies, and on how blockchain projects are always change projects.
Edinburgh College of Art built GeoBlockly as an exploratory tool that would enable new users to learn how to write Smart Contracts and to get them to think about the possibilities for process management and automation that are opened up by the use of Smart Contracts and blockchains.
It is a mistake to think about blockchain as ‘just’ a ‘technical’ solution. The successful adoption of blockchain-enabled solutions entails overcoming new types of organisational and legal risks and challenges. Here are 7 key success and risk factors to watch out for.
Public sector organizations lack ways to understand and experiment with technology that is not yet fully mature and which is surrounded by high levels of expectations and hype – like blockchain. Interpretation, legitimation, and mobilization are themes that help understand how technology is adopted.
Digipolis Antwerp develops a ‘lean and mean’ procurement process for small contracts via a blockchain-based application which combines the publication of requests for proposals and the submissions of tenders from vendors.
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