Strategies and outcomes targeted for the next five years

Strategies and outcomes are given as follows:

National Blockchain Framework (NBF)

In order to effectively use blockchain technology in different domains

such as health, agriculture, education, finance, and so on, a

geographically distributed national level shared infrastructure is required

to enable citizen services at a large scale and enable cross-domain

application development. This National Blockchain Framework (NBF)

with core research components would be developed with intermediate

milestones consisting of the basic framework for the reference

implementation, integration with various existing infrastructure and

services, reference implementations of real-life proj ects, and sandbox

environments for development and testing of applications. A multi-

institutional collaborative approach (involving Government, academia,

industry, R&D labs, and so on) needs to be adopted for this purpose.

Geographically distributed nodes

National Blockchain Framework would be hosted on nodes that are

geographically distributed across the country, enabled as shared

blockchain

infrastructure.

For

on-boarding

any

entity

(industry/ startups/ Government), basic technical parameters may be

evolved. Interested entities need to undergo security audits and

assessments by empaneled agencies before being part of the national-

level blockchain infrastructure.

Blockchain-as-a- Service

National Blockchain Framework would be used for the development and

large-scale hosting of blockchain applications in different areas such as

the agriculture supply chain, electronic health records, education

certificate chain, drug supply chain, and so on. This infrastructure will be

used for providing Blockchain-as-a-Service.

Collaborative efforts

National Blockchain Framework development is proposed as a

collaborative effort involving various stakeholders from Government, the

premier academic and research institutions, startups, and industry.

Collaboration with startups and innovators would be facilitated through

grand challenges.