Blockchain Performance Analysis for Supporting Cross-Border E-Government Services

Geneiatakis, Dimitris; Soupionis, Yannis; Steri, Gary; Kounelis, Ioannis; Neisse, Ricardo; Nai-Fovino, Igor

doi:10.1109/tem.2020.2979325

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“…This represents a major flaw in analysing blockchain for public services, since the specific characteristics of permissioning and infrastructure governance have important political and economic implications, such as transaction costs, performance, privacy, incentives and control of the network [5]. A public-permissioned network, where citizens and entities must identify themselves, and where there are no artificial barriers of entry for citizens, seems to be a promising proposal for a blockchain-based infrastructure for many public services in the European Digital Single Market [99], [100]. However, this might not be the case where established institutions are not sound, or where the legal requirements due to the characteristics of the information shared or the existing regulations are lax.…”

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Blockchain for Public Services: A Systematic Literature Review

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Blockchain is heralded as being ''the next big thing'' that promises to radically transform society and the economy in near-future applications. While scholarly literature on blockchain has largely focused on bitcoin and cryptofinance, in recent years, a body of scholarship has started to emerge on blockchain in the public sector. The characteristics of blockchain have made it a promising technology to transform many activities related to public policy and public service provision, such as administrative processes, welfare provision and regulation practices. This article provides, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic literature review of the use of blockchain across all the main public services. This systematic review identifies the public services most likely to be impacted by the introduction of blockchain. It also highlights the main potential benefits, costs and risks of blockchain for government, civil servants and citizens. Governments are found to benefit mainly from improvements in efficiency and traceability, while regulatory uncertainty and questions around scalability represent major costs and risks for them. Civil servants, the least studied actor in the literature, could benefit from blockchain through the reduction of red tape and improvements in coordination between agencies. Their lack of blockchain knowledge and skills represent a major cost as regards adoption. Regarding citizens, security and transparency are identified as being the most important benefits, while risks are mainly associated with data security concerns. The article concludes by noting several limitations in the literature and providing suggestions towards fruitful lines of research.

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Blockchain for Public Services: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…They demonstrate the life cycle of a government contract and indicate that most government works do not have a high requirement on latency and the performance of the blockchain system is heavily affected by the underlying blockchain infrastructure. In [20], authors show the feasibility of transforming an e-government service into blockchain-based government service under different hardware and network requirements. Moreover, they describe the clear advantages of the blockchain system in cross-border services in terms of usability and synchronization.…”

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The Notarial Office in E-government: A Blockchain-Based Solution

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The Notarial Office(NO), working on providing various essential certificates, still relies on manual handling and requires paper materials from other government departments. That brings lots of inconvenience. The Notarial Office rejects non-local paper materials for their lower credibility in the local place and then cannot provide cross-borders services. It also easily cause sensitive information leakage as copies of paper materials have been stored. In this case, a blockchain-based system is suitable to address challenges in this scenario because of its advantages (e.g, decentralized, immutability, transparency, auditability). We implemented this system on top of the Hyperledger Fabric. Moreover, we replace manual operations with smart contracts, set extra ledgers to off-load different types of transactions and provide encryption for private information when needed. In the end, we get an expected result. That is, the modification outperformed the unmodified network in experiments.

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“…Technologia ta może wspomóc tworzenie bezpiecznej, zdecentralizowanej i współdzielonej platformy transgranicznej. W tym kontekście da się wyróżnić następujące przykłady [12][13][14][15].…”

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Implementation of the Digital COVID-19 Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain Protecting Privacy

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2021

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The paper discusses proposals for implementing the COVID-19 digital Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain that protects privacy. Since the end of the last year, after the commencement of vaccination against COVID-19, there has been an intense discussion on the form of introducing such a tool and the consequences of its implementation. This discussion is taking place in many European countries. One element of this discussion was the safety and anonymity of the massively verified data of persons on vaccinations in various areas of society functioning. These issues are being resolved by the proposed digital Vaccination Passport system. This system uses two major methods: Blockchain and hash functions, which allow you to maintain security, privacy, and anonymity at the same time. To improve the intuitiveness and simplicity of the system operation, the QR code technology was proposed in the passport verification process. The system has been implemented and tested in the Amazon AWS cloud computing environment. A reference architecture based on Blockchain for the AWS environment was proposed, dedicated to large and demanding application solutions. In addition, the cloud environment offers access to many tools that were used in the system’s implementation, significantly increasing the security of the entire solution.

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Blockchain Performance Analysis for Supporting Cross-Border E-Government Services

Cited by 54 publications

References 29 publications

Blockchain for Public Services: A Systematic Literature Review

Blockchain for Public Services: A Systematic Literature Review

The Notarial Office in E-government: A Blockchain-Based Solution

Implementation of the Digital COVID-19 Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain Protecting Privacy

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