Blockchain for E
Governance ?
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Mumbai mirror ( 04 Dec ) carries following news report
:
“ Blockchain journey
goes from suspect to solution “
Police and security
agencies have so far only taken an interest in blockchain — the distributed
ledger technology behind crypto-currencies like bitcoin — for tracking criminals
hiding illegal money from banks.
But that’s changing as
some civilian, police and military agencies see blockchain as a potential
solution to problems they have wrestled with for years: how to secure data, but also be able to
share it in a way that lets the owner keep
control.
Australia, for example,
has recently hired HoustonKemp, a Singapore-based consultancy, to build a
blockchain- based system to record intelligence created by investigators and others, and improve the way
important information is shared.
“They’ve been trying
for years to come up with A CENTRALISED PLATFORM, but people are reluctant to share
information,” said Adrian Kemp,
who runs the consultancy, which was awarded a A$1 million ($757,500) grant by
AUSTRAC, Australia’s financial intelligence agency, and the Australian Criminal Intelligence
Commission.
Blockchain’s appeal for data
sharing is threefold.
Its ledger, or
database, is not controlled by any
single party and is spread across multiple
computers, making it hard to
break.
Once entered, any information cannot
be altered or tampered with.
And, by using so-called
smart contracts, the
owner of information can easily tweak who has access to what.
Governments are already
exploring ways to store some data, such as land records, contracts and assets,
in blockchains, and the financial industry, too, has experimented with blockchain
technologies to streamline transactions and back-office systems, though with
limited success.
In April 2014 , I pitched this very
idea where I suggested creation of a “ COMMON SHARED DATABASE “ between :
*
Public Accounts Committee
( PAC )
*
Central Vigilance Commission
( CVC )
*
Central Information
Commission ( CIC )
*
Research and Analysis
Wing (
RAW )
*
Serious Fraud Investigation Office ( SFIO )
*
Information
Bureau
( IB )
*
Economic Offence
Wing
( EOW )
*
Central Bureau of
Investigation ( CBI )
*
Department of Revenue Intelligence
( DIR )
*
Comptroller and Auditor
General ( CAG )
*
Anti-Corruption Bureaus ( States )....
( ACB )
*
Enforcement
Directorate
( ED )
*
Lok Ayukts (
States )
*
Lok
Pal ( Central
)
For details of my
scheme , read :
Blockchain seems like
the most appropriate way to implement my suggestion
04 Dec 2017
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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