The Mexican government is planning to conduct a public procurement procedure on a blockchain network – the first ever case of using the technology for such purposes in the country in an effort to promote transparency and accountability of the public tenders, Mexican business news outlet El Economista reported.
It is not clear yet what will be offered for sale, but its organizers have pledged to publicly present the white paper and the object of the tender later in August.
The project has evolved from a hackathon that took place in April this year, within the framework of Talent Land 2018. At the time, Yolanda Martinez Mancilla, coordinator of the National Digital Strategy, said that Mexico’s government has been working on a project to track bids for public contracts using blockchain. Now the government ...
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