Re: UK recommendations for distributed ledger technology

Great find Melvin.

 a semantic web based ledger seems like a very intesting idea.
 
Henry

> On 19 Jan 2016, at 12:29, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is vital that our key assets – including the Alan Turing Institute, Open Data Institute and the Digital Catapult – work together with the private sector and with
> international partners to unlock the full potential of this technology.
> 
> For government applications, ‘permissioned’ ledgers are likely to be more appealing than Bitcoin’s unpermissioned model, because they allow the owner, or owners, of the
> data to enforce rules on who is and is not allowed to use the system.
> 
> 
> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/492972/gs-16-1-distributed-ledger-technology.pdf <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/492972/gs-16-1-distributed-ledger-technology.pdf>
> 
> An interesting read.  I believe Solid [1] should be able to handle the vision that this document has in mind, combined with some of the technology incubated here.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/solid/solid <https://github.com/solid/solid>