Blockchain on the Move is a Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) proof of concept between the City of Antwerp, VICTOR, and Information Flanders that aimed to develop tools and approaches to give citizens control over their own data, and to link this with Antwerp’s A-card to give better access to services.
Local governments are undergoing significant digital transformation, including experimenting with new technological solutions. This summarises the findings of a case study of three BLING municipalities in Western Europe that are exploring the adoption of blockchain-enabled service solutions .
The ‘Red Button’ (aka ‘Financial Emergency Brake’) project allows citizens to tell the Dutch Government and debt agencies that they are unable to pay their debts. The privacy-centric system links this declaration with certification from local services that they are providing debt support.
Roeselare’s Fit4Work is a program to help employees become more active. They trialled a personalised fitness service linking online coaching and IoT wearables via blockchain solution to support employee health, fitness, and activity take-up in a privacy compliant way.
Oldenburg University’s Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) proof of concept explores how blockchain can be used to solve the privacy problems that are endemic to the sharing of remotely collected patient data. This is a privacy-first solution for collecting and sharing patient data so it can be reviewed by health workers.
R:ekobyn (R = Röstånga, eko=eco, by=village) is a sustainable community in Röstånga in the County of Skåne in southern Sweden. Skåne is looking for new governance models to help deliver the R:ekobyn community’s vision, and is exploring the feasibility of a blockchain-enabled solution.
David Magård works on the digitisation of the public sector for the Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure. He talks about developing and implementing blockchain technologies for governments – particularly on the importance of governance and on the difficulties in successfully adopting this technology.
Henry Rõigas talks about how Estonia developed the world’s first government blockchain service, and lessons learned about how and when to choose blockchain-enabled solutions, and the need to ensure you have access to people with real world blockchain experience.
Aalborg University explores how blockchain could potentially transform the maritime industry’s existing document handling schemes, potentially replacing physical processes with digital ones, and enabling tracking and real-time monitoring of goods as they move through administrative processes.
It is estimated that nearly 1.4 million Dutch households have debt problems or face the risk of getting into debt. When collecting financial penalties, the social causes of debt must not be overlooked. This is why the CJIB has developed the notion of the Financial Emergency Brake.
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