environment and keenly observing its related characteristics, such as its

dependency on other information.

5 . Awareness and skill set: Availability of skilled manpower who

understands blockchain potential and its applicability to a particular

application domain is required for successful implementation of the

technology.

Roadmap for blockchain technology adoption

As blockchain technology is an emerging area, there are various challenges

that need to be addressed to adopt and effectively use it in different

applications. A roadmap for blockchain technology adoption, along with

details of important milestones, is given in figure 7.12. Globally, many

countries have assessed the value proposition of blockchain technology in

different domains. Currently, efforts are being made in identifying, evaluating,

and evolving prototypes for specific applications. Prototype implementations

and pilot deployments for specific applications have been successfully carried

out. In order to effectively utilize the technology, there is a need for scaling up

the deployments, exploring other domains, and developing it as a shared

infrastructure for cross-domain applications.

Figure 7 .12: Roadmap for blockchain technology adoption

For example, in the healthcare domain, patient health records can be stored in a

tamperproof manner on the national level blockchain. Role-based and privacy-

enabled access can be given to patient data stored on the blockchain. This

helps doctors of any hospital across India to access patient history when a