Last week, India’s Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) published its National Strategy on Blockchain. The five-year roadmap includes rolling out a National Blockchain Framework and a distributed Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) hosting infrastructure to launch an array of use cases initially focused on e-government. However, it plans to expand beyond government applications.
A tricky topic raised in the document is a requirement for data localization. Given the initial focus on government solutions, this makes sense. However, several trade applications are mentioned as potential use cases, resulting in fragmentation, something that blockchain aims to address. China was one of the first to impose these data localization requirements, and as a result, the likes of supply chain network GSBN has a separate hosting infrastructure for China and the rest of the world.
The MeitY blockchain strategy paper touches on various blockchain technologies, both permissioned and permissionless. However, its Framework diagram lists three enterprise blockchains, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth, R3’s Corda and “other platforms”.
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