"If we're going to successfully digitise the economy and the hard parts of the economy that haven't been digitised yet ... Blockchain technology could be the key to ensuring a secure identity when digitising areas such as health , education and government services , according to Washington Post Accelerator partner Rick Wingfield . He told attendees at the annual Technology in Government conference that the key to digitising these areas was data , and the use of a public ledger to store data , alongside a " two - tier infrastructure " would go a long way toward making digitisation a reality .
Blockchain technology could be the key to ensuring a secure identity when digitising areas such as health , education and government services , according to Washington Post Accelerator partner Rick Wingfield . He told attendees at the annual Technology in Government conference that the key to digitising these areas was data , and the use of a public ledger to store data , alongside a " two - tier infrastructure " would go a long way toward making digitisation a reality .