Netherlands, Sweden, Ukraine, Great Britain: Governance 3.0 thanks to blockchain
It would be so beautiful in Sweden’s forests if not everything was full of mosquitoes. Image by Christian Theede Christianson via Flickr.com. License: Creative Commons
A campus in the Netherlands, the land register in Sweden, the social benefits in Great Britain, state auctions in Ukraine: Governments recognize more and more what the blockchain of the state administration can offer.
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It is not quite free from irony that it is especially the banks and states that now begin to use the technology behind the Bitcoin. While Bitcoin as anarcho gold standard is more of the nightmare of the states and banks, the blockchain seems to offer a lot of potential for these institutions. Some of the registration from the past few weeks show what some European governments are doing with the blockchain.
Netherlands: The former minister and state secretary of finance, Willem, recently announced that a special campus will be opened in September in which banks and financial companies can work together on blockchain technology. However, a stir, which is considered the driving force behind the campus, does not reveal where it is opened. According to the “FinTech Ambassador” of the Dutch Ministry of Finance. The problem is that I spoke to about twenty parties that nobody knows what the other does.“The Dutch Ministry of Finance assumes that the blockchain will have a major impact on the financial sector in the coming years.
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Sweden: Sweden is like a large swamp of pine and birches, which extends to the Arctic Circle and where everything has a strange name. “Lant family” is the name of an authority that is responsible for measurement and cartography and also leads the land register. As Chromaway, a Stockholmer Colored coins company, announced on her blog, the rural rental together with Chromaway and the consultants from Kairos Future tested whether and how to map property transmissions on the blockchain. The first tests have led to very satisfactory results and produced a white paper and a proof-of-Concept. In the next step, the actors involved will set up a test environment and work with real estate companies and banks. The medium -term goal is probably not to replace paper in the land register, but to accelerate and improve the processes.
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Great Britain: To be innovative, some German energy suppliers have to go abroad. The British branch of RWE works together with the Bank Barclays, the startup Govcoin, the University College London and the Ministry of Labor and Pension to pay state social benefits through the blockchain. As Coindesk reports, David Freur, a great -grandchild Sigmund Freud’s and Minister for the reform of the welfare state, recently announced this in an interview. According to Freur, a small test in the northwest was started to see whether it is possible and whether the recipients can benefit from the use of the blockchain. Unfortunately, he says nothing about the result.
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Ukraine: When the media report on Ukraine, it is usually about Russia has occupied a piece of land in the east (or not) that the economy is located and corruption takes over. Against the latter, the finance minister, Oleksandr Danyljuk, is planning to proceed in a way that is surprisingly innovative for many outside the country: a blockchain. In order to prevent corruption in the auction of government-owned in the future, the auction platform of Distributed Lab, a Ukrainian blockchain startup, is to be used on the blockchain of Stellar. The “eliminates” system (Danyljuk) the possibility that (corrupt) government officials intervene in the process of offering and manipulating them. In contrast to Sweden and Great Britain, the project in Ukraine is probably about to be used: a fund that veils $ 18 billion in government owners.
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