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BLING Newsletter
#17, September 2021
Blockchain in Government

In this edition of BLING’s newsletter, we are proud to tell that you can now register for the BLINGathon! Check out the message below. We had a talk with Bart & Timo of the city of Gent, the new partner in the BLING project. BLING held its 6th Steering Committee Meeting in September. We asked three blockchain questions to Jörgen Dehlin and we have an interesting article for you from our partner in Oldenburg.

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Registration BLINGathon open
 
On the 13th and 14th of November, the BLING project organizes their international blockchain-hackathon called ‘BLINGathon’. Gather your blockchain-team, prepare for 30 hours of hacking, and sign up now! Find more information on our dedicated website.
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Interview Bart Rousseau & Timo Wyffels - city of Gent
The BLING project is very glad to welcome the city of Gent (Belgium) into the consortium. Gent aims to introduce automatization into its energy loan system by using blockchain. This sounds difficult and therefore the BLING project interviewed Bart Rosseau and Timo Wyffels from the city of Gent to learn more about their project, their work with blockchain and their role in the BLING project.
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BLING partnermeeting focusses on new blockchain pilots

On 22 and 23 of September the BLING project held it's 6th Steering Committee meeting. The meeting focussed on the new pilots in the BLING project since we extended the project. Newcomer city of Gent presented their energy-pilot and guestspeaker Daniel du Seuil talked us through EBSI: the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure. Hopefully, our next meeting will be physical!
Interesting read
BLING partner Ali Amin Renzaei and others published a paper on digitizing health certificates. 

This article is about:
In this article the University of Oldenburg shows in what way a service can be redesigned with the help of suited blockchain technology. They describe the problem - to ensure the integrity and source of health certificates as well as ensuring privacy. The specific use case is around health certificates for prostitutes. These certificates are now on paper and can be easily forged and there are different forms in different provinces in Germany. The article describes clearly how these health certificates can be build with the help of blockchain architecture and furthermore is explained why IOTA based architecture was most suited.
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3 blockchain questions to... Jörgen Dehlin
 
Jörgen Dehlin is project curator at the department of Community Affairs for the Administrative Board of Skåne in Sweden. He states that the soft values of blockchain are very important. Read more about his interest in blockchain and Skåne's role in the BLING project.
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