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Telecommunications

• Telecoms are using blockchain to provide solutions to their customers

and partners to create simple, transparent and secure trading as well

as offerings with a seamless experience

Healthcare

As you have recognised by now, healthcare is one of the most effective sec-

tors for blockchain useability and can benefit substantially through it.

• Decentralised COVID-19 vaccine deployment, vaccine supplies and

transparency throughout the global supply chain can be accomplished

through blockchain use

• Sharing the scientific knowledge and artefacts securely and safely

• Provide digital health care to patients

• Create an ecosystem to use the confidential patient data based on their

consent and also financially reward them to use their data. This can

improve the patient’s participation in medical trials as well as sharing

the health data with medical corporates and researchers

• Create an ecosystem to share scientific ideas with patent protection

features

Energy

• Provide end-to-end solutions to make the lifecycle of the oil and gas

supply chain secure and transparent

• Provide a functionality to create a marketplace of energy suppliers

and buyers to buy and sell utility based on demand and supply with

automated pricing and contracts

• Disrupt the green energy market by creating a marketplace of energy

suppliers and end customers, to adopt green energy and get rewarded

GovTech

• Enable digitalisation of public services

• Reduce bureaucracy within the legacy system and provide a simple,

seamless, transparent and secure platform to citizens, businesses and

entrepreneurs

• Digitalise traditional public services like voting, taxation, road tolls/

tax, council tax, national insurance, social benefits, National Health

Service, employment benefits etc. through the use of blockchain

• Digitalise identity documents like the driving licence, national secu-

rity card and passport

• Digitalise the ecosystem of the land registry