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Rural areas are steadily being marginalised in a global economy where‘core/periphery’ models of development are dominant. To overcome this, rural areas haveexperimented with decentralised governance. However, this process is fraught with political,fiscal, and institutional difficulties. These often revolve around transparency andaccountability issues and low participation rates. Blockchain technology could act as a socialinnovation to overcome issues in decentralised governance, and rural areas could even proveto be a fertile environment for future innovation. In this conceptual paper, the potential ofblockchain technology is theoretically positioned into regional development discourses. Afterexploring how blockchain could be applied to rural governance and the barriers it needs toovercome to reach mass-adoption, a new distributed model of governance is suggested.
Author(s): Merrell I
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Blockchain: Research and Applications
Year: 2022
Volume: 3
Issue: 3
Print publication date: 01/09/2022
Online publication date: 29/04/2022
Acceptance date: 19/04/2022
Date deposited: 30/05/2022
ISSN (print): 2096-7209
ISSN (electronic): 2666-9536
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2022.100086
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcra.2022.100086
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