{"id":101349,"date":"2020-01-24T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T01:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/riyadh-city-picks-ibm-to-integrate-blockchain-in-government-services"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T01:44:20","slug":"riyadh-city-picks-ibm-to-integrate-blockchain-in-government-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/riyadh-city-picks-ibm-to-integrate-blockchain-in-government-services","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh City Picks IBM to Integrate Blockchain in Government Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/riyadh-city-picks-ibm-to-integrate-blockchain-in-government-services.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The municipality of Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital city Riyadh has partnered IBM to facilitate government services and transactions on a blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Under terms of the partnership, early blockchain-tech mover IBM will work with Elm Company, the municipality\u2019s technology partner, to develop an implementation strategy to plug government transactions and commercial services to citizens and residents on a blockchain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itp.net\/617506-riyadh-municipality-selects-ibm-for-blockchain-integration\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">ITP.net<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The city administration, IBM and Elm will further sync with key government departments and private and semi-government sectors over a number of workshops to determine the services that can be transformed by blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The municipality of Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital city Riyadh has partnered IBM to facilitate government services and transactions on a blockchain. Under terms of the partnership, early blockchain-tech mover IBM will work with Elm Company, the municipality\u2019s technology partner, to develop an implementation strategy to plug government transactions and commercial services to citizens and residents on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}