Public Services and Blockchain: Why, why not, what and how?

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What does blockchain mean for public services? Join us to find out learnings from concrete use cases and from the EU funded TOKEN project!

Historical Leuven Town hall

What do distributed ledger technologies like blockchain mean for public services? Do they in reality fulfill the promises of transparency, efficiency and increased trust? What do you need to take into account in distributed ledger technology projects in public services? For the past three years, the TOKEN project has worked with four real life use cases in smart cities to build, test, and pilot how distributed ledger technologies can be used in various public services. Join us and city officials, smart city service developers and public servants to learn more about what these actual projects and research into their implementation has to say about the benefits, the question marks and the concrete how to’s and lessons learned of DLT in the public sector.During the event, you will hear what benefits and challenges have concrete use cases seen, as well as gain insight into the evolving policy landscape around DLT and what tools policymakers on the city level can use to assess the possible uses and grasp onto the possibilities of distributed ledger technology in the public sector. The event will be moderated by Senior Policy Expert Johannes Anttila from Demos Helsinki.Token has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement no 870603.

Agenda

Welcome

Opening words: The transformative impact of DLTs in the public sector

Keynote speech: DLT, public services and policy in the  European landscape

Honest lessons from 4 concrete DLT use cases on what works and what to do better: 1. Public Funding Distribution, 2. Transparent Management of Public Accounts, 3. Urban Logistics, 4. Data Valorization Services

Learnings from pioneer use cases

Coffee break

How to commission, develop and deploy DLT in the public sector?

Policy recommendations from the TOKEN Policy Observatory

How to overcome challenges in DLT innovation in the public sector?

Toolkit for  Policymakers

How do existing DLT solutions work and what would need to be developed further to fit needs? What challenges do civil servants, policymakers and developers face when exploring the usefulness of DLT in public services? How can these challenges be overcome?

DEEP DIVE DISCUSSIONS: Technical track & Policy track

Impact, scaling use cases and the next steps of common infrastructure: TOKEN has been a 3 year project, where we have gathered concrete experiences of how DLT could be used in public services. We’ve drawn concrete lessons of what to do and what not to do. At the same time, many things have progressed on the European level outside of TOKEN: the development of EBSI, new lessons from other projects and so on. Where do we stand now, at the end of TOKEN? What are the next steps of DLT in the public sector? How does TOKEN relate to EBSI? What are the most valuable lessons of TOKEN going forward?

Panel discussion: The future of DLTs in the European public sector

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