TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Blockchain Technology to Support Digital Government
AU - Zein, Reyan M.
AU - Twinomurinzi, Hossana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Blockchain technology is considered as one of the fourth industrial revolution technologies that is transforming governments. This study systematically reviews literature on research into blockchain technologies for government with the aim to map opportunities, challenges and gaps. The main findings show that research has ignored the commercial value of blockchain for digital government with the emphasis on sharing, trust and security, as well as the ability to enhance government infrastructure and services. There is an opportunity to investigate further how blockchain could be gradually re-inventing the traditional notion of government with its transactional intermediaries that are necessary for the classification of G2G, G2C or G2B. The methodological emphasis has been on the design research method, which unsurprisingly relates to the emerging nature of blockchain technology. There is a clear opportunity to begin more reflective research on emergent patterns. Limited research has been conducted in developing countries despite the leapfrogging and governance opportunities that blockchain technology presents.
AB - Blockchain technology is considered as one of the fourth industrial revolution technologies that is transforming governments. This study systematically reviews literature on research into blockchain technologies for government with the aim to map opportunities, challenges and gaps. The main findings show that research has ignored the commercial value of blockchain for digital government with the emphasis on sharing, trust and security, as well as the ability to enhance government infrastructure and services. There is an opportunity to investigate further how blockchain could be gradually re-inventing the traditional notion of government with its transactional intermediaries that are necessary for the classification of G2G, G2C or G2B. The methodological emphasis has been on the design research method, which unsurprisingly relates to the emerging nature of blockchain technology. There is a clear opportunity to begin more reflective research on emergent patterns. Limited research has been conducted in developing countries despite the leapfrogging and governance opportunities that blockchain technology presents.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Digital government
KW - E-government
KW - Infrastructure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077109250&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-27523-5_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-27523-5_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077109250
SN - 9783030275228
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 207
EP - 220
BT - Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective - 8th International Conference, EGOVIS 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Ko, Andrea
A2 - Francesconi, Enrico
A2 - Anderst-Kotsis, Gabriele
A2 - Khalil, Ismail
A2 - Tjoa, A Min
PB - Springer
T2 - 8th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2019
Y2 - 26 August 2019 through 29 August 2019
ER -
