The government of Argentina has designated a national blockchain committee in order to establish the directives for a state-level blockchain adoption strategy. In a document, Argentina remarks on the importance of this tech for the future and presents several use cases that would benefit from the introduction of blockchain for the digital transformation of the country.


Argentina Forms National Blockchain Committee

More and a lot of countries are currently taking a look at however the implementation of blockchain tech will improve some of their public functions. Argentina has recently issued its blockchain national guidelines. 

The document, conferred on Dec. 7, additionally creates a national blockchain committee, which will have the responsibility to “act as an interlocutor within the local blockchain ecosystem promoting the interoperability of blockchain technologies and a decent government.” 

The committee will be constituted by the public Innovation Secretariat and alternative organizations of the state which will develop blockchain-based public policies and tech solutions. However, these alternative organizations that are called to be a part of} the committee aren't detailed as part of the issued framework. 

Areas of Interest

The framework issued by the govt presents many uses that blockchain technology might have in aiding state-exclusive functions. the first area within which it's profiled to have uses is in auditing, given the large size and scope of some governmental structures. Blockchain is proposed as an element which will fulfill 2 functions in this regard: serving to citizens to see however the state is investing public funds, and centralizing all of the public processes using one structure. 

The second area needs to do with citizen identification. the argentine state considers that blockchain may be helpful to aid in identification processes by avoiding forgeries of IDs and other documents issued by the authorities. Organizing a system around blockchain would give third parties simple ways of confirming the validity of these documents. 

In this regard, there are already initiatives using blockchain for this purpose. the city of buenos aires is currently implementing a system called Tangoid, and expects it to be operative in January as a part of a digitisation push. the city will run Ethereum nodes as an experiment to examine the inner workings of the cryptocurrency, to understand it better for regulatory purposes. 

(Sergio Goschenko, Bitcoin.com, 2022)