British researchers are trialing a new blockchain-based certificate designed to manage COVID-19 risks across supply chains. In a statement on April 21, Professor Nassim Belbaly, director of Birmingham City Business School, noted that “coronavirus represents a crisis of trust because we cannot any longer automatically trust goods or suppliers.” New, secure and automated solutions are therefore being sought to help reassure consumers and suppliers that goods across the value chain do not pose health risks to themselves or to others. To tackle this post-pandemic landscape, a newly-launched “4th Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies Centre” is trialing a blockchain-based Coronavirus Clearance Certificate (CCC), issued…

Amid the global pandemic crisis, the importance of ensuring trusted information is getting more crucial as fake coronavirus news poses a direct threat to life and health of people worldwide. While some global jurisdictions are imposing fines and imprisonment for spreading false coronavirus information, a major news agency in Italy is hoping to stop fake news by implementing blockchain technology. All the news that’s fit to hash ANSA, Italy’s main news agency and an international publication owned by 24 national newspapers, has launched a news tracking system based on blockchain to bring more trust between the company and its readers. Called ANSAcheck, the blockchain-powered…

The Election Commission has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology to create a Blockchain voting solution in India. The system will allow citizens to vote outside of their city of registration while preventing them from voting more than once. 18 February, 2020 | AtoZ Markets – In the 2019 elections, 300 million voters did not vote. It represents a third of the 900 million Indian voters. Some were probably not engaged enough to vote. But the vast majority may not have been able to vote – because they were far from where they were registered as voters.   Election Commission of India Will Use…