Influence of DLT in the E-Governance Strategy

The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) technology is one of the future drivers of distributed form of data handling especially with blockchain dominating with immutable and secured e-transactions. With its influence and pre-dominant implementation in various sectors like banking, DLT has different use-cases applied in the E-Governance too. Countries like Estonia have come up with various blockchain based e-services for more transparency and privacy. Smart contracts / chain code in the permissioned blockchain could provide the basic Smart Governance needs such as simplified beneficiary authentication, transparency, privacy, security, automation, cost control, faster processing time and so on. This shows the DLT as a catalyst for automation in the future of Smart Governance along with other technologies like IoT, digital twin and so on. This paper analyses the benefits and challenges of blockchain based E-Governance implementation as well as the different DLT types available such as DAG, hashgraph, etc. apart from the blockchain and their potential for an effective citizen centric E-Governance.