Handbook of Blockchain in Public Governance

Edited by Evrim Tan, Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium

• ContentsPreface xx1 Introduction—what has blockchain got to do with public governance? 1Evrim TanPART I MANAGING BLOCKCHAIN2 Blockchain adoption in government: an assessment framework 16Diego Cagigas, Judith Clifton, Daniel Diaz-Fuentes, and MarcosFernández-Gutiérrez3 Designing blockchain for public governance: technical choices and theirImpact on public values 29Antonia Stanojević4 Leadership competencies and the uncertainties of blockchain adoption inthe public sector 44Syed Hammad Ul Haq, Sorin Dan, and Khuram Shahzad5 Blockchain security in public governance 57Yevheniia Broshevan, Carlo Parisi, Oleksii Haponiuk, FarrukhOdinaev, Adam Idarrha, and Nataliia Balashova6 ‘Management of trust’ regarding the use of blockchain in publicgovernance 73Stefanie Boss, Linda Weigl, and Balázs Bodó7 New decentralized management models and token systems 86Asger Balle Pedersen, Signe Agerskov, and Roman BeckPART II UTILIZING BLOCKCHAIN8 Blockchain public sector use cases in the EU 96A. Paula Rodríguez Müller, Jaume Martin Bosch, and Luca Tangi9 Bureaucratic innovation with blockchain technology 112Derya Aktaş, Stanislav Mahula, and Evrim Tan10 Innovation with blockchain in healthcare 124Mark Gaynor, Kathleen Gillespie, and Allison Roe11 Redefining education: a blockchain perspective 138Chiara Ventura, Nicole Giani, Magdalena Hristova, Katarina Krüger,Joyce O’Connor, Mar Meneses, and Izzat-Begum B. Rajan12 Blockchain in supply chain management—public and industry efforts withregulatory perspectives 152Tan Gürpinar and Alexander Grünewald13 Digitizing company certificates as digital identities for legal entities 161Christian Klugow14 Urban blockchain-based solutions for carbon neutrality 168Enrico Ferro and Roberto Moncada15 Central bank digital currencies, democratic backsliding and politicalinstitutions 180L. Jason AnastasopoulosPART III REGULATING BLOCKCHAIN16 Blockchain, digital identity, and self-sovereign identity 194James Monaghan17 Blockchain and tax administration 3.0 205Nazlı Nilay Dayanç Kuzeyli18 Blockchain and crypto-assets 218Anton Didenko19 Blockchain law in food, water and energy sectors: challenges and promises 231Imad Antoine Ibrahim and Cesar Casiano Flores20 Blockchain interoperability in the public sector 247Oleksii Konashevych21 The role of EBSI in eIDAS—how a qualified ledger with a governmentaltrust anchor could shape the eIDAS ecosystem 260Ignacio Alamillo-Domingo and Steffen SchwalmPART IV GOVERNING BLOCKCHAIN22 Democratic governance and blockchain governance: is reconciliationpossible? 271Darcy W. E. Allen and Kelsie Nabben23 Decentralized autonomous organizations in the public sector—opportunities and risks 286Olivier Rikken, Marijn Janssen, and Zenlin Kwee24 Cross-border governance—the case of European Blockchain ServicesInfrastructure (EBSI) 300Evrim Tan and Daniël Du Seuil25 Local Web3 governance in a neighborhood 315Humberto Besso Oberto Huerta and Sofía Villarreal26 Global governance of blockchains 329Malcolm Campbell-VerduynPART V CONCLUSION27 Conclusion: what’s the future of blockchain in public governance? 344

‘This is a valuable and well timed Handbook. Its main contribution is to move the debate beyond simple claims that blockchain will either transform public governance or fail to matter. [...] The Handbook offers a rich and useful entry point.’