Public administrations get key insights on designing blockchain pilots at EBSI webinar
On 22 October, the CEF Digital team held a ‘Design your pilot’ webinar for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) building block.
This webinar was the first of a series aiming to help public administrations design, build and launch blockchain pilots with the EBSI building block. As more Member States are starting their pilots, EBSI is expanding the practical applications of blockchain technology across borders in a secure, cohesive manner, contributing to a pan-European network of decentralised, trustworthy and user-centric public services.
These webinars are available to public administrations deploying EBSI nodes (which form the EBSI network), further developing use cases already connected to the EBSI network, or simply those otherwise involved in the wider Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) project or interested in using EBSI in the future.
In this introductory webinar, which had around 50 participants, the CEF EBSI team talked in depth about:
- The potentials of blockchain technology for public services in Europe, and how to realise them through the EBSI building block;
- How to design and plan the scope of your EBSI pilot, integrating different digital systems and applications into the EBSI network via EBSI nodes;
- Learning from other Member States and the wider EBSI community to shape the future of blockchain technology in Europe.
However, the dynamic nature of the webinar, which included various interactive portions, also gave us at CEF Digital very interesting insights:
- 80% of participants are requesting that we reinforce practical collaboration by providing examples, links to documentation, demo cases, and workshops to make EBSI operational;
- Most of the participants are interested in starting a pilot with EBSI. For those who already started a pilot project, 70% of them would like to connect to the EBSI network;
- More than 40% of participants would like to launch a pilot addressing students and the education domain in order to facilitate the sharing of educational credentials;
- Participants are particularly interested in enabling the free mobility of students and making the process of diploma management more efficient and trust-worthy;
- ESSIF (+50% of the votes) and Diploma (33%) are therefore the most popular use cases for participants.
The results of the webinar and the level of participation are very encouraging signs for the future of the EBSI. The majority of participants would like to take part in the interactive workshop portion to roadmap various pilots in detail at the following webinar, 'Roadmap your Pilot', taking place on 19 November.
If you would like to pre-register for the second webinar, you can do so here. Official registration will open soon on the 'Piloting with EBSI, explained' page.
You can find the slides from the first webinar below.
Join the EBSI user community!
Alongside these webinars, the CEF EBSI team has revamped its user community, which you can join here for regular updates on upcoming events, and designed an entire learning package, ‘Piloting with EBSI, explained’, to help public administrations with their EBSI pilot. This includes fun, accessible videos and a toolkit with common EBSI templates to help you easily explain your pilot to stakeholders. These materials, along with our webinar series, will give you a structured framework to guide you through the piloting journey from start to end.