US and South Korean Government Departments Switch to Blockchain

US and South Korean Government Departments Switch to Blockchain

US and South Korean Government Departments Switch to Blockchain

The Korean Internet and Security Agency (KISA) will create a profile of each of its employees on a blockchain. Agents will be associated with it with a mobile identifier – a cryptographic key protected by a security chip on a smartphone.

The profile will contain a resume and a logbook, which allows you to access the history of the employee’s work with documents and requests.

The smartphone will become a universal access card to the office, premises, and laboratories, the identifier will replace the signature of agents on acts and regulations. They will be the reason for the decentralized assessment of the work of the staff, who will receive KISA coins in the form of a bonus.

It can be spent at the first stage in departmental restaurants and cafeterias or order additional office supplies. If the evaluation experiment is successful, KISA will enable real monetization, which acts as a full-fledged additional payment for the work done.

In the US, several government departments have been working on blockchain for several years, according to FedTech magazine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been tracking swine flu outbreaks this way since 2017.

Field staff submit reports on detected infections and measures taken to the public network via the RAPID application. They are hashed and can only be decrypted by the head office, which is securely receiving information in real-time.

The Department of the Treasury Department in charge of IT-licensing monitors all sold mobile phones using the blockchain to keep “gray” smartphones out of the market. Also, on the platform is a database of issued IT-software licenses, which reduces the time and costs for checking counterfeit or copyright infringement.

According to the testimony of both operators, blockchain has significantly reduced infrastructure overhead costs and increased the speed of information processing. The main office has significantly reduced the number of on-site inspections, increasing the quality of work of the local departments of the department.