Blockchain in Government

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-09-18

Description

Description (EN):

Blockchain is a key enabling technology that will underpin efforts to deliver innovative services under the Digital Agenda for Europe. Blockchain promotes user trust by making it possible to build systems that share information and record transactions in a verifiable, secure and permanent way. Based on a ‘distributed ledger’, blocks of information are chained together with cryptography to produce a system that stores, manages and verifies information.Blockchain-enabled systems will allow governments to deliver a range of new solutions and service designs that have the potential to redefine the relationship between governments, citizens and SMEs in terms of transparency, trust and data-sharing.BLockchain IN Government (BLING) builds upon the substantial investments by the EU, national governments, corporations, SMEs and wider networks to provide one of the first dedicated platforms to bring these tools and approaches into local and regional services. BLING provides a unique combination of public authorities, knowledge institutions and SMEs who will work to develop and deploy blockchain-enabled public services focusing on Identity, Direct Democracy, and Customer Services. BLING isn´t a tech project: it will use and explore/enable/deliver approach to accelerate the adoption and deployment of blockchain across the NSR in order to enable the creation and delivery of the next generation of smart services for citizens, governments and SMEs.

Achievements (EN):

BLING how it started BLING – Blockchain in Government – was set up in 2018 to accelerate and de-risk the deployment of blockchain-enabled services in government in Europe. The project delivered 24 pilots, proof of concepts, and use cases that show how blockchain-enabled solutions will change how local and regional governments deliver local services and how they work with citizens. From the largest government blockchain service in the Netherlands, to new ways to help people in financial difficulties, how to range organisations in blockchain proficiency: the BLING project has provided a range of examples of new ways to design and deliver services for communities and citizens that cross many service areas, including health, energy, and transportation. The project has known an extension and was closed in June 2023. We have managed to publish all the project's learning on 1 online platform and we have published a Blockchain Book where all stories on the blockchain journey for government are to be found for everyone to read. The project has been unique and a rare example of how a relatively small project can deliver long lasting effects on the young field of blockchain technology for government. A unique project BLING is unique in targeting blockchain capacity development and piloting for local and regional governments. When BLING began there were relatively few local and regional government blockchain use-cases: BLING has significantly expanded the evidence base, and BLING’s pilots, proof of concepts, and use-cases have had an outsized impact. We have been working a lot with relevant other EU initiatives on blockchain (both Horizon programme and NWE). We have as well been working with EBSI (European Blockchain Services Infrastructure) an initiative from the European Commission. Final Conference During the Final Conference BLING project launched its Blockchain Book with all the use cases/learnings in it, as wel as the repository website with blockchain maturity testing and the reference to all BLING's contributions on all aspects of blockchain. BLING's Book This is a A4 format book of 146 pages with 41 articles on use cases, learnings and experiences from the wide BLING network. BLING's Repository Website and Maturity Testing of Blockchain The BLING project developed 24 pilots, proof of concepts, and use cases that show how blockchain-enabled solutions will change how local and regional governments deliver local services and how they work with citizens. This website serves as a digital catalogue of the project’s results and contains valuable insights that can help other public organizations on their way to implement blockchain. Final remarks It has been challenging working with a new, exciting but still evolving technology. When governments seek to adopt technologies, these are usually technologies that are ‘new to them’, and not technologies that are still in the midst of periods of rapid development and adoption. In many ways blockchain is still an immature technology: but what BLING has found is that the biggest challenges to blockchain adoption are not technical, but organisational and cultural. The BLING project partners have worked together on this journey of how to best apply blockchain technology for government in harmony and with a strong focus on results. By providing new ways for organisations to collaborate, by providing platforms that build trust between organisations and between organisations and users, by enabling individuals and organisations to share verified information in verifiable ways – it is the new forms of collaboration that blockchain enables that are the real changes that will be delivered by blockchain-enabled services.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/bling

Thematic information

ICT and digital society Knowledge and technology transfer

Specific Objective: Stimulate the public sector to generate innovation demand and innovative solutions for improving public service delivery

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Gemeente Groningen

Address: Postbus 30026, 9700 RM Groningen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gemeente.groningen.nl

Total budget: EUR 1 105 888.00

ERDF budget: EUR 552 944.00

Aalborg Universitet

Name: Aalborg Universitet

Address: Thomas Manns Vej 23, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.aau.dk

Total budget: EUR 601 605.00

ERDF budget: EUR 300 802.00

Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg

Name: Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg

Address: Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118 26129 Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uol.de

Total budget: EUR 384 608.00

ERDF budget: EUR 192 304.00

Centraal Justitieel Incassobureau

Name: Centraal Justitieel Incassobureau

Address: Postbus 1794, 8901 CB Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cjib.nl

Total budget: EUR 432 174.00

ERDF budget: EUR 216 087.00

Gemeente Emmen

Name: Gemeente Emmen

Address: Raadhuisplein 1, 7800 RA Emmen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gemeente.emmen.nl

Total budget: EUR 611 614.00

ERDF budget: EUR 305 807.00

Göteborgs Universitet, Blockchain Lab

Name: Göteborgs Universitet, Blockchain Lab

Address: Institutionen för tillämpad IT, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gu.se

Total budget: EUR 676 900.00

ERDF budget: EUR 338 450.00

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen

Name: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen

Address: Marksesteenweg 58, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.howest.be

Total budget: EUR 687 320.00

ERDF budget: EUR 343 660.00

Länsstyrelsen Skåne

Name: Länsstyrelsen Skåne

Address: Södergatan 5, SE-20515 Malmö, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/skane/sv/Pages/default.aspx

Total budget: EUR 234 120.00

ERDF budget: EUR 117 060.00

Province of Drenthe

Name: Province of Drenthe

Address: postbus 122, 9400 AC Assen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.drenthe.nl

Total budget: EUR 409 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 204 750.00

Stad Antwerpen

Name: Stad Antwerpen

Address: 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.antwerpen.be

Total budget: EUR 55 721.00

ERDF budget: EUR 27 860.00

Stad Gent

Name: Stad Gent

Address: Botermarkt 1, 9000 Gent, BELGIUM, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.stad.gent

Total budget: EUR 133 960.00

ERDF budget: EUR 66 980.00

City of Roeselare

Name: City of Roeselare

Address: Botermarkt 2, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.roeselare.be

Total budget: EUR 308 350.00

ERDF budget: EUR 154 175.00

South East of Scotland Transport Partnership (SEStran)

Name: South East of Scotland Transport Partnership (SEStran)

Address: Area 3D (Bridge) Victoria Quay, EH6 6QQ Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sestran.gov.uk

Total budget: EUR 246 612.00

ERDF budget: EUR 123 306.00

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City of Groningen

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Aalborg University

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Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

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Central Judicial Collection Agency

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Local authority of Emmen

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Göteborg University, Blockchain Lab

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Howest University College

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The county Administration Board of Skåne

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Drenthe Province

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Stad Antwerpen

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Stad Gent

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Stad Roeselare

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South East of Scotland Transport Partnership (SEStran)

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Summary

Project name (EN): Blockchain in Government

Project acronym: BLING

Project start date: 2019-01-01

Project end date: 2023-06-30

Project status: closed

Relevant linked projects:

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 5 969 577.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 984 787.00

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ERDF: Amount, .

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Books

The Blockchain Book

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Blockchain - Obstacles and Opportunities for Democracy Development

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Can democracy become digital? - The possibilities of the blockchain in the Swedish democracy process

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

The EU Legislation and Blockchain

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Blockchain in Government: An Analysis of Blockchain Implementation Challenges in the Context of European Blockchain Pilots

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2021-08-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Enacting the Last Mile: Experiences of Smart Contracts in Courier Deliveries

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2021-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Exploring Blockchain Municipal Use Cases

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2020-08-10

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

GeoPact: Engaging Publics in Location-aware Smart Contracts through Technological Assemblies

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2020-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

The Blockchain technology´s applicability

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2022-05-16

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

The key challenges of blockchain implementation in maritime sector: summary from literature and previous research findings

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2022-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

BLING - Gent Energielening Explainer Video

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2023-08-16

Languages: nl

BLING Göteborg 2019

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2019-06-27

Languages: en

BLockchain IN Government (BLING) Kick-off meeting

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/bling/

Publication date: 2024-10-31

Document date: 2019-04-09

Languages: nl, en

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

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