2024 Q2 Report - Public Sector SIG

Owned by Jim Mason
Jun 17, 2024
3 min read

Mission

Build an active, diverse, engaged community identifying key concepts, opportunities, strategies and solutions in Public Sector organizations, communities and groups for blockchain related technologies and solutions that can help individuals, organizations. 

Special Interest Group

The group is diverse with subscribers and participants from all around the world. Presently we are more than 200 subscribers. With the expansion of many Public Sector challenges, solutions and growth of blockchain technologies we look for wider engagement on many diverse topics in the Public Sector SIG.  We monitor other groups tracking blockchain use cases, policies, solutions and adoption globally. With the added regulatory focus on many technologies and the rise of AI, topics on AI trust & governance are important along with the use of DLT for mainstream industries and Public Sector solutions ( identity, payments, currencies etc ).

2024 Meetings

By June 2024 the Hyperledger Public Sector SIG had 3 meetings, most of which were promoted and supported very well by David Boswell and Tomaz Sedej as virtual meetups with Live Stream recordings as well ( Thank you again David and Tomaz for this ).

  • 2024 Meeting Recordings page
    https://lf-hyperledger.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PSSIG/Recordings+-+2024

  • Jan 7, 2024 - Planning discussion on Key Topics - Jim Mason, Saptarshi Choudhury
  • April 26, 2024 - Open Discussion on UN SDGs, trust and blockchain value - Jim Mason
  • May 17, 2024 10 AM ET - INATBA Overview with Morgane Stein
  • June 14 2024 - DLT Trusted Enterprise AI & ML - Mohan Venkataraman 

The INATBA meeting was very well attended

The  DLT Trusted Enterprise AI & ML by Mohan Venkataraman was one of the largest meetings we've had in years

Where our meetings have also been promoted to the Virtual Meetup Groups, we've had good attendance.

We have done some collaboration on topics with Supply Chain, Climate Action groups as well.

The Confluence wiki and Zoom online meetings make it easy to hold meetings and share meeting content.

We post all our meeting recordings and presentations on the site as a session library for later review.

SIG Health - Issues and Challenges

Overall our registered membership was about the same as 2022 - 203 registered members on our mailing list. We had some drops and some adds but not a high number

 We seem to draw more attendees from the US, some from Europe and little ever from Asia. I suspect a lot of that is the meeting time that works well for US and ok for Europe.

We need to execute more of the Hyperledger Marketing Strategies for SIGs in 2024 to expand awareness of our SIG and potential value it offers

Adding to leadership in the SIG as well

Challenges include building a backlog of speakers wanting to present on new topics.

We also don't want to overlap on sessions with other Hyperledger groups on topics. We do have overlap with other SIGS on Financial Regulation, Supply Chain Regulation, Climate Action Regulation etc

2024 Meeting Plans

Other Candidate sessions to add to the backlog include:

  • Growth of Interoperability Work in Public Sector Finance
  • Automated Digital Governance
  • CBDC work and regulations related to blockchain impacts of FedNow, Swift, RLN etc
  • AI and Blockchain in Digital Government
  • ERC3643 - permissioned, governed Ethereum Smart Contracts
  • New EU legislation for Environment Crime 
  • Potential for Forest Management Tokenization 
  • EU AI Act impacts and blockchain support
  • Updates in 2024 on Besu, Fabric, Firefly, Aries

Candidate 2024 Work Products

Some of the areas on ESG, Automated Digital Governance, AI and Blockchain in Digital Government may be candidates for research papers that can add value. IF there were high community interest based on results, any of those could be later defined as volunteer projects in Hyperledger Labs potentially. 

Report Author(s)

Jim Mason

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