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Project

Designing blockchain-based public governance models: Trade-offs, user roles and system design choices.

Blockchain technology (BCT) can radically change the way that our societies and governments are organized and operate. Yet, at this stage, BCT endures multifaceted technological, political, societal and legal challenges for a BCT-based transformation of public governance. Given the multi-faceted and across-the-disciplines nature of the challenges, it is particularly complex for public sector organisations to decide on ‘when BCT is an appropriate technology in public governance?’ and ‘how BCT-based public services can be governed?’. This project has two interconnected research objectives, (1) to understand how and to what extent BCT can substitute the current modes in public governance, and (2) to identify the design variables and models of blockchain governance in public services. The research aims to develop a decision-making support tool for policymakers for the design of BCT-based systems in public governance and a new research agenda on the impact of BCT on public governance.
Date:1 Oct 2020 →  Today
Keywords:distributed-ledger, blockchain, public governance, system design, trust
Disciplines:Information technologies, Political representation, executive and legislative politics