A Framework for Maintaining Citizenship Record on Blockchain

Abstract

The absence of a unified repository of citizens' records hinders strategic planning of government for implementing welfare schemes and service delivery. Keeping a central repository of such records in traditional databases is a security concern as any data breach from the system can compromise the privacy of the citizen. Besides such a system can be misused. In this work, these problems are addressed by developing a secure and robust system for holding the identity records of all the citizens of a nation. In this paper, the capability of Blockchain for acting as a solution to the concerned problem is examined. Blockchain applications inherently possess characteristics of being robust to break down, secured using cryptography and autonomous as they are capable of functioning without the need for manual intervention based on defined business logic. This paper uses the strengths of Blockchain to build a Blockchain-based system that acts as an integrated decentralized database for citizenship records of a nation.