Blockchain for decentralised rural development and governance
Rural areas are steadily being marginalised in a global economy where ‘core/periphery’ models of development are dominant. To overcome this, rural areas have experimented with decentralised governance. However, this process is fraught with political, fiscal, and institutional difficulties. These oft...
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| description | Rural areas are steadily being marginalised in a global economy where ‘core/periphery’ models of development are dominant. To overcome this, rural areas have experimented with decentralised governance. However, this process is fraught with political, fiscal, and institutional difficulties. These often revolve around transparency and accountability issues and low participation rates. Blockchain technology could act as a social innovation to overcome issues in decentralised governance, and rural areas could even prove to be a fertile environment for future innovation. In this conceptual paper, the potential of blockchain technology is theoretically positioned in regional development discourses. After exploring how blockchain could be applied to rural governance and the barriers it needs to overcome to reach mass adoption, a new distributed model of governance is suggested. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c63caab2506d4ef780944739da03b21f2022-12-22T01:43:05ZengElsevierBlockchain: Research and Applications2666-95362022-09-0133100086Blockchain for decentralised rural development and governanceIan Merrell0National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UKRural areas are steadily being marginalised in a global economy where ‘core/periphery’ models of development are dominant. To overcome this, rural areas have experimented with decentralised governance. However, this process is fraught with political, fiscal, and institutional difficulties. These often revolve around transparency and accountability issues and low participation rates. Blockchain technology could act as a social innovation to overcome issues in decentralised governance, and rural areas could even prove to be a fertile environment for future innovation. In this conceptual paper, the potential of blockchain technology is theoretically positioned in regional development discourses. After exploring how blockchain could be applied to rural governance and the barriers it needs to overcome to reach mass adoption, a new distributed model of governance is suggested.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720922000276Rural developmentDecentralised governanceBlockchainSocial innovationRegional developmentParticipatory governance |
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| title | Blockchain for decentralised rural development and governance |
| title_full | Blockchain for decentralised rural development and governance |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain for decentralised rural development and governance |
| title_short | Blockchain for decentralised rural development and governance |
| title_sort | blockchain for decentralised rural development and governance |
| topic | Rural development Decentralised governance Blockchain Social innovation Regional development Participatory governance |
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