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Blockchain beyond bitcoin: revolutionising trust, transparency, and scalable digital ecosystems

Published on September 30, 2026   17 min

A selection of talks on Technology & Operations

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Hi, I'm Dr. Ravinder Singh. I'm Head of Digital and Technology Systems team within Cabinet Office, and government Commercial Function. My team is working across government, advising government on AI machine learning, blockchain, quantum computing, IoT, and other technologies, as well as government commercial college. So today's talk, which I have, is on blockchain, which probably everyone sees around Bitcoin, but this is beyond Bitcoin, and we are seeing how we can revolutionize trust, transparency, and scalable digital ecosystem.
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What are the emerging technologies? So, just to give you an idea just don't think that AI and machine learning is the only new emerging technology. All these technologies are emerging technologies, from AI and machine learning to generative AI, Internet of Things, Low Code, Blockchain. There are a number of things that are going on and depending on the area which you are working on. But today, I will focus mainly on blockchain that how it is going to impact various industries and other things.
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The first thing on blockchain, it's not just about cryptocurrency, which people have mistaken it to be, Oh, this is a bitcoin, this is a bitcoin, this is a bitcoin. Everyone says that, but no, this is beyond that. And the foundation was distributed ledger technology. That the ledger in the organizations, they are distributed ledgers like treasuries, banks, and others; they have ledgers. Why do they have to do that? We are moving from a value protocol to a trust protocol. That is where the blockchain comes in. It is kind of a thing, you can imagine, if I have to explain in very simple terms. What is a blockchain? Blockchain is building a trust, a tamper-proof environment for digital interaction, which means if you have to give 100 rupees or 100 pounds, 100 dollars to someone as a loan or something, what does it take? Basically, it takes trust, of yours, or somebody in the middle who is talking to you. That somebody is asking, I need $1000 for this person, and you give trust because you trust the middleman. Or you know the person directly, you give that money to him.

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