Challenges of blockchain technology adoption for e-government: a systematic literature review
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The ability of blockchain technology to record transactions on distributed ledgers offers new opportunities for governments to improve transparency, prevent fraud, and establish trust in the public sector. However, blockchain adoption and use in the context of e-Government is rather unexplored in academic literature. In this paper, we systematically review relevant research to understand the current research topics, challenges and future directions regarding blockchain adoption for e-Government. The results show that the adoption of blockchain-based applications in e-Government is still very limited and there is a lack of empirical evidence. The main challenges faced in blockchain adoption are predominantly presented as technological aspects such as security, scalability and flexibility. From an organizational point of view, the issues of acceptability and the need of new governance models are presented as the main barriers to adoption. Moreover, the lack of legal and regulatory support is identified as the main environmental barrier of adoption. Based on the challenges presented in the literature, we propose future research questions that need to be addressed to inform how the public sector should approach the blockchain technology adoption.
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Using TOR as a network privacy layer to connect to the blockchain network opens a new set of vector attacks.
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Blockchain is being applied in different scenarios such as e-Administration or Smart cities, which demand diverse privacy requirements.
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Background
- Authors
- Batubara, F. R., Ubacht, J., & Janssen, M.
- Affiliations
- Universitas Sumatera Utara (ID)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2018-05-30
- Pages
- 1-9
- ISSN
- 3050-8681 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2807260071
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 20.21
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (publishedVersion)
- Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › E-Government and Public Services
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Keywords
- blockchain adoption, e-government, public sector, distributed ledger technology, transparency, fraud prevention, trust, security (computing), scalability, governance models, legal and regulatory barriers, barriers to adoption
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