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BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION
JANJUNAERY20210818
Government pilot: West Virginia and Voatz:
West Virginia successfully completed a blockchain pilot that allowed deployed military members to vote in a primary electronically, using their smart phones. Jonathan Johnson, president of Medici Ventures, which invested in the tech company Voatz that conducted this pilot, described the project as follows:
We have a portfolio company called Voatz... Voatz has the technology
that was used in a in a pilot program in West Virginia during their primary election and two counties overseas military voters. They log on to the Voatz application on their phone, it confirms who they are with a biometric [e.g., finger print or retinal scan]. The County Clerk sees this is a registered voter in my county, serves them up a ballot—the right ballot. They vote. They send it in with a cryptographically secure way. So the county clerk doesn’t know it’s me, Major Johnson voting from Germany, but the County Clerk she knows this is a guy who’s allowed to vote. It’s not like today when military vote, they email it in or they fax it in and they waived the right to privacy on their vote. It comes in, she knows it’s a vote that’s to be counted she counts it. Major Johnson can log in with his cryptographic key and see his vote was counted, as cast. Remote, digital, safe and secure voting. They did a pilot
in two counties. We expect at the end of this month that they’ll announce they’re going to roll it out statewide in West Virginia for the General Election. West Virginia the cutting edge of technology... I love—I love saying that sentence. (Blockchain for Dummies, Manav Gupta, 2017; YouTube, Heritage Foundation, 06/12/18)
Supply Chain Management
When something goes wrong with a complex “system of systems,” such as an aircraft, it’s important to know the provenance, through supply chain management, of each component, down to the manufacturer, production date, batch, and even the manufacturing machine program. Blockchain holds complete provenance details of each component part, accessible by each manufacturer in the production process, the aircraft owners, maintainers, and government regulators. Benefits in this category include:
• Increased trust because no single authority “owns” the provenance information
• Increased efficiencies lead to reductions in time taken to diagnose and remedy a fault improving system utilization
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