#e-gov

In 2015, Estonia made the cryptocurrency press headlines when it announced a cooperation between its e-residency platform and blockchain initiative BitNation. While the program is mainly focused on provision of notary services to Estonian e-residents, BitNation’s ambitions go way farther.

As reported by Baltic Course, Nasdaq will cooperate with the Estonian e-residency platform to maintain e-voting service for companies listed on Nasdaq’s Tallin stock exchange. The service will allow the shareholders to vote on various issues without being actually present. Estonian e-residency program allows foreign residents to obtain virtual residency of Estonia to run their […]

KYIV, UKRAINE, 02.11.2016 – Memorandum concerning creation of E-vox, Ethereum-based electronic election system, was signed. The system in question will be used for holding election at any level, varying from municipal councils to the national parliament. Presently, the system is an Ethereum-based smart contract prototype taking into account Ukrainian political peculiarities. The prototype was developed […]

The times when the distributed ledger technology, or, when applied to bitcoin specifically, the blockchain technology, was a scarecrow for big entities, have gone forever. Nowadays, blockchain has become a buzzword for major banks, stock exchanges, and even government institutions.

Yet another Ukrainian city became a testing platform for blockchain integration in government management. Speaking at Blockchain Incredible Party conference in Ukrainian city of Lviv, Oleksii Konashevych, a spokesman to the electronic democracy reforming group, stated that state services platform would employ a blockchain-based voting system.

A Ukraine-based project is in the process of developing an automatic system for holding online auctions for leasing and selling of state-owned property using blockchain technology. Some of the project’s details became public during BIP001 conference and Blockchain Conference Kyiv back in September 2015. The project’s representatives Lasha Antadze and David Kiziria stated that the […]

Bitnation, which calls itself ‘the world’s first Blockchain powered virtual nation’, announced on its site Bitnation.co that as of December 1, 2015 it will launch a program offering notary services to its online residents. The program is supported by the Estonian e-Residency program. The posting states that the program will provide almost complete set of […]