Blockchain’s public sector use goes beyond payments.
The Estonian Government will use Blockchain technology to protect citizens’ electronic health records.
Digital transactions made with Blockchain technology are irreversibly recorded. The records are impossible to change because they are shared globally across thousands of computers in real time through a distributed ledger.
Read more: Estonia using Blockchain to secure health records
In the framework of constitutional reforms in Armenia, the new electoral code addresses the introduction of electronic voting among other things. PanARMENIAN.Net spoke to Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, the Head of Research at the Estonian e-Governance Academy and the Head of the Chair of Law and Technology at Tallinn Law School about the peculiarities of e-voting in Estonia and the challenges the system faces worldwide.
The Baltic country is ‘looking for a solution instead of prohibiting a new form of business,’ President Ilves says.
In what Estonia claims as a European first, Uber and similar ride-sharing services are now officially regulated in the country and can legally compete with traditional taxis.
Under the law approved by parliament last week, drivers can provide “negotiated passenger transport” services in vehicles with up to nine seats, but only electronically, not by picking up fares on the street, New Europe reported.
Data security startup Guardtime has announced a partnership with the Estonian eHealth Foundation that will see it deploy a blockchain-based system to secure over 1 million patient healthcare records.
Under the deal, the foundation will integrate Guardtime's keyless signature infrastructure (KSI) blockchain into the foundation's Oracle database engine to provide "real-time visibility" into the state of patient records.
Read more: Blockchain Startup to Secure 1 Million e-Health Records in Estonia
Start-ups in Singapore eyeing the European Union (EU) market will become the first in the world to benefit from a scheme enabling them to open a bank account in the Baltic nation Estonia without needing to travel there.
This benefit comes with enrolment in Estonia's e-residency scheme, which allows non-citizens to perform e-government and e-business transactions in the country. These include setting up a company and a bank account.