Special Issue – Blockchain Standards Foreword

Abstract

In her foreword to Roadmap for Blockchain Standards (March 2017), the CEO of Standards Australia, Bronwyn Evans, observes that Blockchain has the potential to support efficient and secure real time transactions across a large number of sectors. From enabling efficient and accurate financial services to providing visibility along the supply chain, and from streamlining government services to delivering confidence in identity accuracy to consumers, blockchain and DLTs have the capacity to revolutionise the way we do business. The revolution empowered by blockchain and the steady-hand role of standardisation meld here to establish the foundation of this special issue of the Journal of ICT Standardisation.