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Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain-based Platformization of Digital Identities in the Public Sector

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Fridgen, Gilbert ; Guggenmos, Florian ; Lockl, Jannik ; Rieger, Alexander:
Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain-based Platformization of Digital Identities in the Public Sector.
In: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). - Portsmouth, UK , 2018

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Digitalization promises unprecedented opportunities for public sector institutions to increase efficiency
of current and to introduce new services. One of these opportunities are unique digital identities which
could improve migration and refugee management, simplify distribution of social services, and improve
healthcare systems. A major challenge, however, to the adoption of such digital identities is finding a
suitable technological basis. Blockchain might be such a technology. The challenges of introducing
blockchain-based digital identities, however, are both significant and fuzzy. To provide guidance on
how to overcome these challenges, we provide a detailed exploration of blockchain-based platformization
of digital identities and discuss interview insights from refugee and migration management in Germany.
We find that blockchain offers promising solutions for unique digital identity management. Likewise,
we find that implementation in the public sector would entail a range of organizational and technological
challenges. Successful adoption, on the other hand, might ultimately pave the way for decentral
and efficient e-government services.

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Item Type: Article in a book
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: Blockchain; Digital Identity; Platformization; Public Sector
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Former Professors > Professor Information Systems and Sustainable IT Management - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gilbert Fridgen
Research Institutions
Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes
Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > Fraunhofer Project Group Business and Information Systems Engineering
Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Former Professors
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 000 Computer Science, information, general works > 004 Computer science
300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Date Deposited: 18 May 2018 07:11
Last Modified: 01 Jun 2022 07:21
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/44302