Algorithmic Government: Automating Public Services and Supporting Civil Servants in using Data Science Technologies

Blockchain in the built environment and construction industry: A systematic review, conceptual models and practical use cases

“…DLT are being investigated, trialled and employed across many governments globally including in the United Arab Emirates, the United States (Nordrum, 2017), Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom (Jun, 2018), Denmark, Honduras (Alketbi et al, 2018), the Republic of Georgia (Engin and Treleaven, 2018) and Estonia (Sullivan and Burger, 2017) . Jun (2018) provides a comprehensive list of 17 nations and some of their blockchain-based government projects in addition to suggesting principles for their implementation as: Blockchain Statute law; disclosure of data and source code; implementing autonomous executing administration; building a governance system based on direct democracy; and making Distributed Autonomous Government (DAG).…”

“…Jun (2018) provides a comprehensive list of 17 nations and some of their blockchain-based government projects in addition to suggesting principles for their implementation as: Blockchain Statute law; disclosure of data and source code; implementing autonomous executing administration; building a governance system based on direct democracy; and making Distributed Autonomous Government (DAG). Other applications in this category focuses on smart contracts to automate processes and public services including tax collection, identity management, benefits distribution, property and land registries, local and/or national digital currencies, government records management (Boucher et al, 2017), regulatory compliance (Engin and Treleaven, 2018) and health care services (Alketbi et al, 2018). Transparency and immutability offer accountability, efficiencies and reduced bureaucracy as a result of automation (Nordrum, 2017).…”

Blockchain e a Perspectiva Tecnológica para a Administração Pública: Uma Revisão Sistemática

“…Given the distributed way data is stored in Blockchain, applications related to logistics, land properties, electricity, government payments and smart contracts turn out to be appropriate, since the different actors involved in each process would benefit from the distributed ledger (Atzori, 2018;Buth, Wieczorek, & Verbong, 2019;Engin & Treleaven, 2019;Kossow, 2019;Li, Greenwood, & Kassem, 2019;Marchionni, 2018;Maza, 2019;Ølnes, Ubacht, & Janssen, 2017;Thakur, Doja, Dwivedi, Ahmad, & Khadanga, 2019). Polls, Supply Chain, Digital Identity and Building Construction share Blockchain's data processing efficiency; the technology stands out for its security in storing data, as they are important information, be it for social control -elections and document maintenance -or for the control of buildings and food and/or medication, and the public administration must control or regulate these processes (Abelseth, 2018;Johnson, 2019;Kossow, 2019;Lander & Cooper, 2017;Li et al, 2019;Tseng, Liao, Chong, & Liao, 2018).…”

“…Among the potential impacts from the results obtained (Figure 4), it is demonstrated that the use of Blockchain leads to improvements in data storage, which could result in the reduction of bureaucratic processes, speeding up data processing and allowing, for example, the use of smart contracts. Furthermore, Blockchain is an important tool for sharing information such as clinical pathological data, drug distribution and supply chain stages of a wide number of products, contributing to more efficient surveillance and control (Abelseth, 2018;Atzori, 2018;Berg et al, 2018;Buth et al, 2019;Engin & Treleaven, 2019;Johnson, 2019;Kossow, 2019;Li et al, 2019;Marchionni, 2018;Thakur et al, 2019;Tseng et al, 2018).…”

“…It should also be considered that the use of Blockchain technology requires greater cooperation between State, society and market, given that technology has its core in sharing the database, generating transparency and accountability, making it necessary to build permanent dialogue structures among actors (Abelseth, 2018;Buth et al, 2019;Scholl & Bolívar, 2019). However, for the implementation of Blockchain in the current context, the legal adaptation of this technology to existing structures is imperative (Abelseth, 2018;Engin & Treleaven, 2019;Kossow, 2019;Scholl & Bolívar, 2019;Ølnes et al, 2017), given that modern states have as their fundamental characteristic the legitimacy of law enforcement.…”