
Emerging TechnologiesBlockchain and Web3 in E-Government
Public sector interest in distributed ledgers centres on registries, identity and the auditability of public records. This course examines those applications for African public administration specifically. Delegates cover land and asset registries, credential and qualification verification, digital identity and its governance, procurement transparency, and the public record keeping obligations a ledger interacts with. The course is direct about the preconditions: a ledger cannot fix a registry whose underlying records are contested, and digitising a broken process produces a faster broken process. Governance, procurement and the long term cost of running the infrastructure receive as much attention as the technology.
Course objectives
- Assess registry, identity and credential use cases in public administration
- Identify the data quality preconditions a ledger initiative depends on
- Design governance for a public sector network, including who may write to it
- Address public record keeping and archival obligations
- Evaluate procurement transparency applications realistically
- Plan for the long term operating cost and institutional ownership of the infrastructure
Who should attend
- Public sector information and technology officers
- Policy advisers and digital government leads
- Registry and records management officials
- Procurement and audit officials
- Development partners funding digital government initiatives
Course outline
- 01Why the public sector is interested, and what it is actually trying to fix
- 02Land, asset and other registries, and the contested record problem
- 03Credential and qualification verification
- 04Digital identity, and who governs it
- 05Procurement transparency and its limits
- 06Public records, archival obligations and immutability
- 07Governance: who may write, who may read, who pays
- 08Long term operating cost and institutional ownership
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 to 9 September 2026 | Kigali, Rwanda | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 26 to 30 September 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 29 October to 2 November 2026 | Lagos, Nigeria | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 1 to 5 November 2026 | Online, Online | Online | R7,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 24 to 28 November 2026 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 10 to 14 December 2026 | Gaborone, Botswana | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |