Key facts:
- The Ministry of Economy proposed to design a collaborative public platform.
- The project was announced last Thursday, but no release date was reported.
The
federal government of Mexico again placed the magnifying glass on the benefits
that the implementation of a national public blockchain would bring to the
government administration. The Aztec Ministry of Economy showed special
interest in distributed networks as a way to improve transparency and for
society to benefit from accountability.
During
the development of the Fundamentals of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies course,
held in Mexico City last Thursday, October 10, Daniel Casados, a technology
advisor to the Ministry of Economy, said that although blockchains have become
a massive topic for cryptocurrencies , these have a potential that has not yet been
fully discovered.
“The
idea and the great challenge that we have posed is to make a national
blockchain, what we have called the transparency network. There we will
participate different actors from Mexico, on the one hand there will be the
federal government that in this case is headed by the Ministry of Economy, but
that we think will be expansive to the rest of the government (...) the
industry (startups) that is a fundamental element and the academy”, said
Casados during the event and in meetings with digital media.
The
advisor did not offer details about the blockchain that he wants to develop,
but said that although it is national, it is not from the government, it will
be public and highly collaborative. A request for comments on this project has
not yet been answered by Casados.
The
authorities of the aforementioned secretariat visualize their project as a
“triple helix” between the government, academia and companies, whose engine
would be the society to which the benefits of transparency would be paid.
Data and national economy
The
academic meeting also served as a stage for Graciela Márquez Colin, secretary
of economy of Mexico, to explain the reasons why the authorities have
approached the so-called distributed accounting technology (DLT).
«Many of
the projects that we have are in what we have called the data economy, and we
have taken it as a flag (...) It is an important moment to constitute a
platform that adapts and is an instrument of support for all productive
sectors», the official said.
Under
these arguments, the State will attempt to implement a "datification"
of the national economy through the blockchain that is under development.
In order
for public officials to understand how blockchains work, an alliance was
established with the MX Internet Association, EDU Blocks (Canada), the
Blockchain Institute of Technology and High Tech Polymath for the realization
of such courses.
Mexico has
also proposed, in the past, the use of blockchains to combat, for example, fuel
theft. In the field of cryptocurrencies, the country maintains a regulation
through the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions (ITF), known as
Fintech.
Distributed
accounting technology allows, among other things, transfers between two or more
people without the intervention of third parties. Its introduction in
the world of technology occurred for the first time through the creation of
Bitcoin.
SOURCE: Criptonoticias
