Hyperledger Public Sector White Paper
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1. Introduction
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1 What is Hyperledger
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2 Public Sector:
1.3 IMPACT STATEMENT
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2. Public Sector Environment
2.1 Identity management for Governments
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2 Interactions (Highly Regulated Transactions)
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3. Regulations
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4 Governance
3. Public Sector Mapping
4. Use cases
4.1 Predatory Bank Loans
4.1.1 Description of Environment
4.1.2 Description via four rings
4.1.3 Conclusions
4.2 Energy Sector Management
4.2.1 Description of Environment
4.2.2 Description via four rings
4.2.3 Conclusions
4.3 Land Registry / Land Markets
4.3.1 Description of Environment
4.3.2 Description via four rings
4.3.3 Conclusions
4.4 Grants Management
4.4.1 Description of Environment
4.4.2 Description via four rings
4.4.3 Conclusions
5. Conclusions
6. Recommendations
7. Glossary
7. Acknowledgement
1. Introduction
Purpose of This Paper
Government has served an important function, to maintain trusted information for member of its society. Blockchain technology can revolutions how agents collect and process information. We believe the future will involve a world with many interconnected distributed databases and blockchains, each of which will be specialized to suit the purposes of its users, In this interconnected world, it is the role of the Public Sector to define and facilitate these relationships.
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III. Compliance
3.1 What Is the Highly Regulated Transaction
3..2 Use Cases
* Land Entitlements
*Agriculture
3.3 Recommendations Moving Forward
IV. Governance
4.1 Governments Blockchain governance
4.2 Use cases
4.3 Recommendations Moving Forward
V. Conclusions
Notes 8
Introduction
Purpose of This Paper
The purpose of this paper is to derive pathways for the Public Sector when discovering the benefits of Blockchain Technology When discussing Blockchain thru a Public Sector lenselens, (3) important segments need addressing: (1) Identity Management for Public Sector
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1.1 What is Hyperledger
Background
Blockchain is an emerging technology pattern that we believe can radically improve banking, supply-chain, and other transaction networks, creating new opportunities for innovation and growth while reducing the cost and risk of related business operations. With the rapid emergence of Bitcoin in the transactions domain since 2009, many businesses and industries have invested significant resources in investigating the underlying technology that powers the popular, yet controversial, cryptocurrency.
Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology that first gained traction in the financial industry because of its capacity to issue, trade, manage, and service assets efficiently and securely. The distributed ledger makes it easy to create cost-efficient business networks without requiring a central point of control, in marked contrast to the world of SoR (System of Records), where every member in the ecosystem needs to maintain its own ledger system and reconcile transaction updates with one another in inefficient, expensive, and often non-standardized inter-organizational operation flows.
As the shared ledger concept gains traction in the business world, blockchain smart contracts are also getting a lot of attention from industry. A smart contract is a collection of business rules which are deployed on a blockchain, and shared and validated collectively by a group of stakeholders. A smart contract can automate business processes in a trusted way by allowing all stakeholders to process and validate contractual rules as a group.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were designed to be completely open, decentralized, and permissionless: anyone can participate without establishing an identity; one only has to contribute by spending computation cycles. Under the Bitcoin model of blockchain, there is no central authority that controls admission; these networks have been called permissionless. Bitcoin is costly to operate because it requires innumerable proof-of-work computations.
Hyperledger takes a much more flexible approach to consensus than the traditional blockchain model. We expect most--but not necessarily all--of our use cases to require permissioned blockchains, something that cryptocurrencies do not directly support. However, we expect that even some of the use cases of permissioned blockchains will require different consensus algorithms. For instance, round-robin consensus may be sufficient for certain small, highly trusted blockchains, while other blockchains may require Paxos or PBFT variants. For this reason, Hyperledger includes support for modular, plug-and-play consensus. This modularity gives Hyperledger the potential to save computation cycles, scale efficiently, and respond to the multitude of enterprise use case requirements by providing a secure, robust model for identity, auditability, and privacy.
What is Hyperledger
Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger, as part of the Linux Foundation, provides technology leaders a uniquely open and collaborative international community from which to develop, validate, and field enterprise-grade blockchain technology solutions.
What is Hyperledger
FIGURE 1: THE HYPERLEDGER GREENHOUSE STRUCTURE
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Table 1: Summary of Hyperledger Frameworks:
FRAMEWORK | BRIEF DESCRIPTION |
HYPERLEDGER FABRIC | A platform for building distributed ledger solutions with a modular architecture that delivers a high degree of confidentiality, flexibility, resiliency, and scalability. This enables solutions developed with HyperledgerFabric to be adapted for any industry. |
HYPERLEDGER SAWTOOTH | A modular platform for building, deploying, and running distributed ledgers. Sawtooth features a new type of consensus, proof of elapsed time (PoET) which consumes far fewer resources than proof of work (PoW). |
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1.2 Public Sector:
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Public Sector
Definitions
Public sector organisations are businesses set up with the aim of providing a public service rather than making a profit., existing in all three layers of government ( Federal. State Local)
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- Funding for public services are usually raised through a variety of methods, including taxes, fees, and through financial transfers from other levels of government
Examples of organizations in the public sector include:
- Education (Schools, Libraries)
- Electricity
- Emergency Services
- Fire Service
- Gas and Oil
- Healthcare
- Infrastructure
- Law Enforcement
- Police Services
- Postal Service
- Public Transit
- Social Services
- Waste Management
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IMPACT STATEMENT:
Blockchain technology is relatively new technology and is in its very early stages of adoption. Questions need to be answered as to how the Public Sector and related industries can leverage blockchain technology in various verticals. While there is a great hype and interest in the technology it is critical to ensure that initial deployments consider right use cases to demonstrate the effective use of technology.
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1 Identity Management in Government
2. Interactions
3. Compliance
34. Governance
2. Public Sector Environment
2.1 Identity management for Governments
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2.1 What is Identity Management in dealing with the Public Sector
Conclusions From SOVRIN FOUNDATION presentation
CROSS BORDER ID credentials.
No personal information interoperability and privacy management DID .
Information should not leave the boundaries (geo fencing) Cross countries boundaries.
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2.2 Interactions (Highly Regulated Transactions)
1 What is Identity Management in dealing with the Public Sector2.2 Use Cases
2.3 Recommendation Moving Forward
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. Regulations
2.4 Compliance / Governance
3. Public Sector Mapping
4. Use Cases
3.1 What is the Highly regulated Transaction common with most dealing with the Public Sector
3.2 Use Cases
3.3 Recommendation Moving Forward
4. Governance
4.1 What is Blockchain Governance in dealing with the Public Sector
4.2 Use Cases
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5. Conclusions
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What should be the topic of the first Public Sector SIG Whitepaper? Please indicate topics of interest and willingness to work on it
Overview of the Public sector space. Who is doing what and where? | 14% | 2 votes |
Potentials of Blockchain Technology for Public Sector: study of usecases looking forward. | 29% | 4 votes |
Analysis of blockers and challenges for adoption of Blockchain in Public Sector. | 14% | 2 votes |
Certain Aspect of Public Sector space and usage of Blockchain for it (passports, land titles...)? Name one. | 14% | 2 votes |
Will you be available to work on it? | 29% | 4 votes |
You voted on Friday, February 8, 2019
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Standards Contributed by Learning Materials Development Working Group, Gordon Graham and Bobbi Muscara
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Alfonso Govela
A Mind Map to start our collective definition of "Public Sector" for our White Paper
Bobbi Muscara
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