Government of Argentina Forms National Blockchain Committee
The government of Argentina has formed a national blockchain committee to implement a state-level blockchain adoption strategy. Argentina has published a document for the digital transformation of the country. The document underlines the importance of blockchain technology and presents several use cases that are likely to benefit the nation in the future.
National Blockchain Committee
Countries
all over the world are eager to use blockchain technology to improve public
welfare programs. Argentina has recently issued its national guidelines on the
blockchain.
The document, presented
on Dec. 7, will set up the national blockchain committee that will have the responsibility
to "act as an interlocutor in the local blockchain ecosystem, promoting
the interoperability of blockchain technologies and a good government."
The
committee will be constituted by the Public Innovation Secretariat with other
establishments of the state to develop blockchain-based public policies and
technology solutions.
Areas of Interest
The
government has presented several uses of blockchain technology that could be
beneficial to the state. The first area is auditing, given the large size and
scope of some governmental structures. Blockchain is proposed as a component
that will fulfill two functions. assisting citizens in understanding how the
state invests public funds and centralizing public processes through the use of
a single structure
The
second area is largely citizen identification. The government of Argentina believes that blockchain could be useful in the
citizen identification process. It would
help avoid fake IDs and other documents issued by the authorities. Establishing
a blockchain system would also make it simple for third parties to confirm the
validity of government documents.
The
blockchain initiatives are visible in selective use cases in Argentina. The
city of Buenos Aires is currently implementing a system called Tangoid and expects
it to be operational in January as part of the digitization push. The city will
also run Ethereum nodes as an experiment to examine the workings of the
cryptocurrency and determine its efficacy for regulatory purposes.
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