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What we can and can't do & Obstacles and opportunities for democracy development

County Administrative Board of Skåne has published two reports with regard to blockchain. Blockchain offers new ways of organising public sector services but also demands new ways of governing traditional legacy systems. The first report provides an overview of current EU policy and regulation with regards to blockchain technology, summarising the most oft-discussed challenges related to blockchain technology vis-à-vis EU legislation, and highlighting some of these challenges with case law in EU member states. The second report identifies obstacles and opportunities for democracy development. Both reports are freely available on our website. 

Developments in blockchain technology create novel service opportunities for the public sector. However, so far there has been limited empirical investigation on how the public sector takes this emerging technology to use and develop these services. Livia Norström and Juho Lindman of the University of Gothenburg have investigated how public organizations have piloted blockchain projects within their organizations. These findings have been presented at the American Conference on Information Systems in August 2020 and can be read in their paper on 'Exploring Blockchain Municipal Use Cases'.