Purpose of the paper:
This document tries to enlight the most important kind of applications of blockchain technology in the public sector, with particular attention to the measure those can be applied to reduce corruption episodes. Block chain has been firstly used in the crypto values sector (mainly bitcoin). Transactions are in fact fast, cheap and safe so that it’s possible to think about an application also for non-financial aims as casting vote or for document/contracts management. In this last example with block chain it’s possible to unequivocally state that one document has existed at one date. This technology is particularly useful when it’s needed to track the chronology of one or more transactions. In addition, systems based on this technology are able to ensure four strong concepts: decentralization, transparency, security and immutability. That being stated, in the consideration that the awareness for the advantages those will come in the next future is increasing, this paper will focus on anticorruption measures and on the cost/benefit relationship. The main questions about block chain those will be taken in to account are:
which are the main effects on transparency of Public Administration?
Which are the main costs for implementing/upgrading existing systems?
Which is the time table needed for the implementation?
Which one are the main fraud cases those can be reduced and which is the impact?
2. Intended contribution to the literature (References of Literature at the end of the paper):
Literature about block chain is mainly focused on its use in the crypto currencies sector and on financial benefits of this kind of transactions.
The concept of protection of sensitive datas (which have been collected, day by day, by industries ) can be used also in the anticorruption sector and in public management.
One other application that has been studied is in the contracts with the so-called “smart contracts” which are agreements based on a piece of software implemented on a blockchain platform which can assure a high level of autonomy and automated effectiveness.
3. Methods:
The research method will consist in a survey on the main Countries those have already started to adopt blockchain based systems in Public Administration (Sweden and Ukraine f.e.).
Ukraine has declared to use block chain in to the selling process of the national asset in order to reach high level of efficiency, security and transparency.
Datas regarding reduction of time and costs will be asked to Authorities and through their analysis will be unlighted the main reflexes in transparency and in the satisfaction of the field operators.
4. Main findings:
The results coming out from this survey will be compared with the Italian situation and for type of Administration (local or central f.e.).
It will be possible studying the main benefits those would be obtained by the introduction in the national panorama of those applications and knowing which one would be, in terms of Administration, the first subjects to start this particular innovation process.
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