Blockchains for E-Governance applications

Abstract

India is one of the fastest developing countries with projected growth rates of 7.2% for 2017 and 7.7% for 2018 [1]. One of the most important driver for such high growth is the governance. The government is a key player in the decision making and policy making for the nation. The onus of implementation of these decisions and policies too, lies with the government. With a population of 1.2 billion, governance can be a huge challenge. Various factors like scalability, transparency, integrity and reliability of systems are difficult to ensure. Good governance is characterized by several qualities like transparent processes, secure transactions, ease of operations, accessibility and inclusivity. Achieving most of these attributes in a paper based offline processes is quite difficult and expensive.