The government of the British Overseas Territory Gibraltar will be using blockchain to help with delivering public services, per a press release Tuesday (Dec. 7).
The program plans to use blockchain tech to work on the interconnectivity between departments, organizations and people. It will be set up by Bitso and IOVlabs, and the release praised the two firms for their important work in distributed ledger technology.
The proposal will boost Gibraltar’s existing eGov system through letting users share the government-issued and certified credentials, which could include things like driver’s licenses and passports.
Albert Isola, minister for digital and financial services of Gibraltar, said the blockchain idea would help improve the way people interacted with the government.
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