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Design a Policy onto the Blockchain as a Method of Procedures
Every state senator, house member and assemblyman that pushes their agenda into state legislation have hope their political policies will explore awe and inspire something great that improves the state of humankind. The states have a duty to achieve this through voted policies and laws to protect citizens and non-citizens, and administer without fault in safeguard of life, liberty, and the potential of prosperity. Driving policy is without a doubt a democracy in governing freedoms by the people and for the people. Under examination, a states legislation in pursuit of a new or revised policy governing the people have an order of steps in the process.
Define Problem to Address Determine GoalResearch/Analyze Design Framework on Issue Draft Policy Consult Internal Agency Stakeholders Consult External Stakeholders Finalize Policy Vote/ApproveImplement/SupportMeasure
Where we question the value and effectiveness of the policy once it has passed state registration and final approval it moves into the final phase of implementation, support and measure. We then can ask did the policy have an impact? Did it change the outcome as applied to a law or rule of law? In the context of a state designed blockchain, does the policy have dependencies of a system or network of operators and procedures with execution of these rules and regulations, and does it reside on the states infrastructure of systems?
We can explain the post implementation of a policy into law with function something like a driver’s license and its registration as a document with laws and regulations to allow a person to drive. The states systems to store the record of a driver, traffic records, insurance, taxes and citation fees is an example of a system of policies with procedures that in large part are effective because the data on the driver is on the states IT network and department of motor vehicles infrastructure for organizations who need this information.
In every policy of the state which the actors, procedures, operators and data are on a system and stored on an infrastructure, the policies procedures are a candidate of being on the blockchain. The blockchain infrastructure can contain an IT network, storage, documents, contracts, forms, licenses, payments and apps including the policy procedures coded into smart contracts and onto the distributed ledger in a secured and tamper proof manner.
It Begins with Trust of the Blockchain
Blockchain concepts and the notion of a decentralized and distributed ledger used to record transactions across state computer systems is a radical idea. A capability where records cannot be altered retroactively without the collusion of the blocks on the network is a new education for state governments to hand over (with some apprehension). The trust of a system to automate the consensus on the blockchain to self execute the many orders of procedures to digital assets and communications of the policy will be a new way of thinking.
What about trust? The blockchain optimizes the effort of trust required on the system from any single actor on the system by consensus as being distributed, persistent, and of an auditable database. In this case, the actors and the consensus recorded onto the distributed ledger database are performed in a delegated action known as proof of stake with rules (algorithms) defined by the blockchain protocol.
Blockchain growth and government legislation continues to break new ground as more uncover its value to the system of policy. All posing a particular attitude to change the way government manages its policies to serve the people. The very foundation of making a change in a government policy and implementation is strife with issues, as well as rewarding when its done right. When it applies to the state infrastructure to carry out the instructions of a policy it requires more than a spark of leadership.
It requires full trust of the system like our government designed by the Founding Fathers. Would the First Continental Congress have embraced Blockchain? Consensus? Decentralization? Distributed Ledger? Is it too hard to imagine visualizing Thomas Jefferson having an oratory debate on the liberty to trust new methods of consensus and decentralization for the thirteen states to be empowered in assembly that is conducive to good governing? (maybe, but go with me here)
Could we see a government in the future test the measures of consensus and decentralization with a self executable smart contract on a state blockchain infrastructure to ensure policy instructions are coded into procedures to automate the approval steps carried out through an online portal or mobile application with notification to confirm completion? To do so we need to understand the considerations of the policy, procedures, administration and its infrastructure to plan, build, deploy and support the blockchain into the states IT network and shared partnerships on other systems and environments.
Identify the Policy with Most Impact Being on the Blockchain
The technology leaders in government understand that changes take time to examine, review, build, test, pilot, retest, deploy and support. In emerging technology such as blockchain, the subject matter experts need to share and collaborate the use cases of implementing government policies onto a blockchain. There should be a strong use case where to see value through evidence of problems where passed policies are not effectively tracking well or have inefficiencies.
The blockchain is still evolving. More companies are building new decentralized distributed ledger infrastructures on blockchains and learning. The time and effort put into software development could be expensive and time consuming to build a state approved policy (by a real vote, show of hands please) onto a smart contract that is bound to a number of automated self-executing actions encoded as procedures to enforce regulation. Therefore, it is imperative the team building the decentralized distributed ledger and smart contract identify first the problem which makes the best use cases to improve an existing state policy solution with known processes and decision points to carry out the policy, but on a blockchain.
The technology which to build the policy procedural smart contract needs careful consideration by the state system architects familiar with the current infrastructure and environment. The business analyst needs to understand the processes required to ensure the problem has a solution by drawing out the customer’s journey maps and decision points. The product manager should identify the best of blockchain capabilities in digital signatures, distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, tokenization, security and authentication. A state department CIO will be required by procurement some form of short-term and long-term success with returns on the investments to the degree which it was designed to solve an important business problem and improve with a magnitude of approval from those affected by the new blockchain based system.
The blockchain software stack is undergoing continuous improvements as tools and protocols are released to testnet environments and then general availability. An enterprise project on the blockchain will encumber emerging tools and some familiar existing designs which must be integrated into existing states systems development environments and frameworks, with a continuous integration, testing frameworks, automation, deployment and devops.
Infrastructure of the blockchain enterprise project will carry a capital cost and long term budget agreed upon by legislative vote. Its for this reason a test environment of the project on the state designed blockchain testnet undergo rigorous fault-tolerant technology to protect failover with backup equipment should a main computer system, electronic system or network hardware malfunction.
Use Case: Blockchained Procedures for Interstate Trade
For example, consider the impact of smart contracts to enforce policy and regulation of interstate trade on a blockchain as a series of procedures. Each step of shipping a product across state lines has an order of execution and completion. Each state likely has defined a statute, regulation or practice which operates to the disadvantage of persons, products, or services coming from other bordering states to the advantage of local residents, products or enterprises. The trade barriers are likely widely distributed among state laws, orders, administrations of orders regulating production, distribution, and general commercial practice. The mere lack of understanding how these laws are carried out procedurally make it harder to carry out the law and gains in efficiency are unrealized. Every step of the interstate trade oversees taxes which are levied to exclude out-of-state products or services in favor of the products or services of a business, taxes levied to eliminate or curb a competitive type of merchandising because of their large numbers when encountered in interstate commerce have a cumulative barrier effect.
On the heels of innovation for interstate trade is autonomous drones and autonomous trucking. The improvements in machine and deep learning systems and artificial intelligence introduces an opportunity to absorb these technologies in accordance to deliver the best solution for interstate trade and encapsulate onto a blockchain. The form of an autonomous regulation shouldn’t be a barrier or hamper interstate trade or commerce. There are 75 regulations for driving that impact autonomous vehicles currently. States are grappling with how to regulate while change the landscape for infrastructure spending to improve the roadways to transport autonomous vehicles at level 4 and 5. A driverless interstate truck could benefit from a smart contract to capture every procedural input and output along the route of container, contents, tolls, destination, taxes, etc. A new form of digital highway could have a completely new meaning in under a decade.
Assign Blockchain Task Force and Development Teams
The task force is your group of subject matter experts in technology, software, finance and business processes as it relates to state government supported systems. They research and distill the down the need for the business cases for a state to build on the blockchain. They can either be internal partners as well as external partners. External enterprise partners like Deloitte, KPMG, Accenture and PWC offer experiences in industry practices for enterprise infrastructures and the financial analysis to the decisions on future value of the blockchain project.
Once coming out of approval stage by state task force (receives budget approval), the software development team is engaged to build the solution for the state on the blockchain. Recruiting software engineers will be met with hurdles as there are not enough blockchain architects and blockchain engineers to go around. The high demand has made this special class of talent highly sought. Many developers who are considering or have depth in coding smart contracts in blockchain and developing the fabric for the blockchain architecture are often recruited by large software companies and resourcing talent could cost more than the budget the state CTO has allocated. Developing relationships with recruiters, universities and consulting firms with experience should be assessed and developed during the task force phase of the project. Another route is the academies specific to building and educating a new wave of engineers in blockchain such as Consensys Academy.
Align Strategic Partnerships
The states effort to architect, build, deploy and support a blockchain infrastructure is treated as the same as any other enterprise application. For this reason, strategic partnerships can offer a thorough understanding of the best environment for the blockchain application and services early in the discovery phase of the project.
The CIO and CTO can qualify their assumptions with these strategic partnerships in consult for the best solutions to ensure the project is right-sized properly. The inclusions of strategic partnerships with a depth of enterprise experience should be included in the budget through all phases of the project and long term support. The scope and implementation of the state approved blockchain project will be a significant change to the IT system and the support services by developers, support desk, hardware and communications systems.
Likewise, the consultants and blockchain infrastructure partners will be subject to state procurement to have the necessary people capital to address roadblocks and challenges in the product roadmap. Furthermore, the state wants to drive effective management of IT resources by working to improve the organizational maturity framework and capacity in the effective deployment and management of IT supporting the state blockchain.
Closing Statement
Blockchain technology will be a significant contribution to improve both business processes and everyday life. The transformation of moving to self-executable policy is a profound new approach to democracy of our basic needs, social welfare, healthcare, education, retirement and economic stability. State leaders in the department of technology transformation with oversight of the states systems that support the underlying government fabric for taxes, compliance, collection of fees and data have a unique opportunity to build a new future with the blockchain.
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