Evaluating the Use of Blockchain in Land Transactions: An Archival Science Perspective

Lemieux, Victoria L.

doi:10.1515/eplj-2017-0019

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“…Countries such as Georgia and Peru have taken a more sectoral approach. Georgia is one of the leaders in the use of blockchains for land title registration which has already been the subject of critical academic research (Lemieux, 2017;Thomas, 2017). Recently, Peru announced a new government procurement system based on blockchain technology in partnership with a local blockchain startup and the Inter American Development Bank (IADB).…”

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Taming the Beast: Harnessing Blockchains in Developing Country Governments

Zambrano¹

2020

Front. Blockchain

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Amid pressing demands to achieve critical sustainable development goals, governments in developing countries face the additional complex task of embracing new digital technologies such as blockchains. This paper develops a framework interlinking development, technology, and government institutions that policymakers and development practitioners could use to address such a conundrum. State capacity and democratic governance are introduced as drivers in the overall analysis. With this in hand, blockchain technology is revisited from the perspective of governments in the Global South, identifying in the process key traits and proposing a new typology. An overview of the status of blockchain deployments in the Global South follows, complemented by a closer look at country examples to distill trends, patterns and risks. The paper closes with a discussion of the findings, highlighting both challenges and opportunities for governments. It also provides basic guidance to development practitioners interested in enhancing current programming using blockchains as an enabler.

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Taming the Beast: Harnessing Blockchains in Developing Country Governments

Zambrano¹

2020

Front. Blockchain

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“…23 Other exemplary criteria include the format of registration (real folium or personal folium), public faith attributed to the content of the register (basically good faith in the land register is protected in case of constitutive registration) and the publicity of registered information (public access for everyone or access restricted to persons with a legitimate interest). 24 Considering specific rules adopted in different land registration models, it can be argued that the precepts of the blockchain concept followed by the "original" -public blockchain are incompatible with main functions performed by the land registry in the title registration systems. These include principally: the information function, which consists in reducing uncertainty as to the legal status of land by providing detailed and complete land information; the protective function, relating to ensuring accuracy of information that can be relied on by persons acting in trust to the content of the land register, and the control function, connected with the power of the registration authority to check the correctness of the basis for entry in the register.…”

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Blockchain-based Land Registration: Possibilities and Challenges

Kaczorowska

2019

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In recent decades land registration systems operating in Europe and worldwide have been subject to modernisation processes consisting in implementation of information and communication technologies. Such reforms have gradually led to facilitating access to land information, improving effectiveness of land registration proceedings and even introducing possibilities to dispose of the ownership of land electronically by developing electronic conveyancing mechanisms. Another innovative concept much discussed nowadays is the application of blockchain technology in the land registration sector. This solution is currently being tested in a number of countries.Distributed ledger technology underlying blockchain is expected to revolutionise land registration by offering a secure architecture to store land transactions with the use of cryptographic protocol. This shall bring advantages of increased trust and processing efficiency as well as reduction of costs. However, the above idea raises concerns given that, under the assumptions of the “original” blockchain model, transactions are irreversible and are carried out without intermediaries, which means the lack of any external control and independent verification of the transactions to be recorded.The article examines potential benefits and risks of automatisation of land transactions as well as practical experiences of selected countries in implementing blockchain in the area of land registration. On this basis, an assessment will be made as to whether blockchain-based registration could indeed replace the existing methodology of registering rights to land.

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“…In addition, the pilot involved transcribing existing records into the new blockchain ledger. We noted that this could result in inconsistency between the versions of land titles found in the parallel systems (i.e., the original registry and the blockchain ledger), presenting the opportunity to dispute the legitimacy of one or the other record (Lemieux, 2017;Flores et al, 2018).…”

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Blockchain and Public Record Keeping: Of Temples, Prisons, and the (Re)Configuration of Power

Lemieux

2019

Front. Blockchain

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This paper discusses blockchain technology as a public record keeping system, linking record keeping to power of authority, veneration (temples), and control (prisons) that configure and reconfigure social, economic, and political relations. It discusses blockchain technology as being constructed as a mechanism to counter institutions and social actors that currently hold power, but whom are nowadays often viewed with mistrust. It explores claims for blockchain as a record keeping force of resistance to those powers using an archival theoretic analytic lens. The paper evaluates claims that blockchain technology can support the creation and preservation of trustworthy records able to serve as alternative sources of evidence of rights, entitlements and actions with the potential to unseat the institutional power of the nation-state.

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Evaluating the Use of Blockchain in Land Transactions: An Archival Science Perspective

Cited by 65 publications

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Taming the Beast: Harnessing Blockchains in Developing Country Governments

Taming the Beast: Harnessing Blockchains in Developing Country Governments

Blockchain-based Land Registration: Possibilities and Challenges

Blockchain and Public Record Keeping: Of Temples, Prisons, and the (Re)Configuration of Power

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