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.
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.
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 .
GeoPact is a blockchain-backed location verification system which collects and confirms location data from smart objects. Dave Murray Rust and Ella Tallyn explain how this proof of concept helps stakeholders understand how they can use blockchain-enabled solutions – particularly in logistics.
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.
The Blockchain technology is still in the progress of reaching its plateau of productivity, and hasn’t been made understandable for the majority of the public, due to its relatively high demand of technical knowledge and flair.
The aim of this Thesis is to explore how blockchain is implemented and used in the European public sector and how it influences organizations typically described as slow and inefficient, while thereby, being uninnovative and unprogressive.
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