Gothenburg University’s Blockchain Lab uses BRAT in a three-step process to help organisations build capacity and identify gaps and risks in their blockchain knowledge. These steps – an initial survey, a results workshop, and a final report – help organistions get the most out of their BRAT results.
How BLING helped BlockchainLab Drenthe go from 3 entrepreneurs around a kitchen table to an internationally recognized organization that has delivered the biggest public service government blockchain project in the Netherlands.
In April 2022 HOWEST and BLING organized a hackathon to tackle the over-use of water by developing blockchain-enabled solutions to improve water management. This first-of-its-kind ‘decentralised autonomous hackathon’ was organised via (autonomous) smart contracts on a (decentralised) blockchain.
BLING’s BLINGathon hackathon was held on the 13 & 14 November 2021. This was the biggest BLING hackathon, with 34 teams and over 140 participants from 12 countries picking their brains for the 30 hour-long event to come up with the best solutions for 4 challenges set by the BLING partnership.
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.
An answer to the questions 1) If the County Adminstrative Board decides to develop its own model for e-voting, which international IP-rules apply?, 2) Could the County Adminstrative Board potentially protect a model for e-voting that it develops or does this model automatically become public?
An overview of current EU policy and regulation with regards to blockchain technology, summarising the most oft-discussed challenges related to blockchain technology vis-a-vi EU legislation, and highlighting some of these challenges with case law in EU member states.
Blockchain offers new ways of organising public sector services, but also demands new ways of governing traditional legacy systems. Trust is a key factor in the adoption, the case for the application of the blockchain to democratic procedures is not yet clear.
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.
Juho Lindman and Livia Norström from the University of Gothenburg tell us about some of the work the Blockchain Lab has done to understand the challenges facing governments as they work on blockchain-enabled services, and some of the factors which are driving this change.
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