Today EY announced that it has been working with the City of Vienna on a public blockchain initiative. The project enables people to verify documents such as transport routes, train schedules, and community voting results.
Hashes are cryptographic representations of documents which look like indecipherable text. These are stored on a public blockchain along with a timestamp. This allows city employees and citizens to verify the authenticity of the documents and the creation date.
The initiative is part of the DigitalCity.Wien project which aims to simplify and automate administrative processes. So far 350 documents have been added to the public blockchain since the project went live in December 2017.
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