It’s going to be up to the private sector to help push the development of blockchain as a security tool, and government can be among the biggest beneficiaries of the technology, says Dale Jablonsky, Public Sector West advisory director for KPMG.
Jablonsky, who held multiple C-level positions in state government before joining KPMG in 2014, was interviewed during the recent California Technology Forum in Sacramento by Steve Towns of e.Republic, parent of Techwire.
“There are a lot of use cases that government could really benefit from, because government has a tremendous amount of data stewardship responsibilities,” Jablonsky said, citing such examples as Social Security case resolutions and property titles.
He said that the private sector should keep innovating in blockchain and that government should take full advantage of those advances. The key is for government to not be too linear in its thinking.
“Being able to leapfrog is a great advantage” to government, he said, adding that it’s incumbent on his firm and its competitors to continue pushing the limits of blockchain and other data security technologies. Jablonsky's portion of that interview begins here at the 2:19 mark.
In another portion of the video interview, Jablonsky discusses emerging and disruptive technologies on the horizon, and the role they can play in government going forward. Here is an excerpt from that conversation:
