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Disruptive Technologies for Enabling Smart Government

Abstract:

This paper presents a review of Blockchain technology and computer protocols called Smart Contracts as a virtual mechanism to expedite the execution of contractual commitments without the intervention of regulatory or verifying entities. Blockchain is considered one of the most important disruptive technologies of recent years and its application can generate profound changes in business models and society in general, even in the public sphere providing potential benefits to citizens and the conformation of a modern e-government. The main contribution of this work is to draw a set of basic considerations that support new e-government processes based on blockchain and smart contracts, and also schematizes an application use case. This is intended to streamline public processes and reduce the problems associated with corruption, lack of transparency and cost overruns, among others; even striving to meet the stated objective of the United Nations regarding the e-government of providing services and information to citizens in a transparent way through technological mechanisms and the use of the Internet.