Eric,<div><div><br></div><div>As with every 'new' technology, we are in the "... falling in love ..." phase right now! </div><div><br></div><div>The honeymoon will be over soon, there will be bills to be paid, and children to take to school!</div><div><br></div><div>Then will we know the true value of distributed ledgers :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><signature>Sent from <a href="https://nylas.com/n1?ref=n1">Nylas N1</a>, the extensible, open source mail client.</signature></div>
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On Dec 16 2016, at 10:04 am, Erick Mwangi via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Listers,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">While this is certainly huge - it's important to note Blockchain is not applicable to everything - it's a Time stamp distributed ledger. The key word is Time stamp where an existing authority is not "trusted". I can definitely see the land registry angle however am not too sure re medical records, the question would be what/why is being solved.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Wish someone from the CSs team would give us the reasoning behind this.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Eric</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 16 Dec 2016, at 02:17, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 December 2016 at 10:37, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id="gmail-m_-4719763789279928550AppleMailSignature">2. Other uses for BlockChain being considered by Government. </div><div id="gmail-m_-4719763789279928550AppleMailSignature"></div></blockquote></div><br>Land registry, education records, and medical records.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">According to CS Joe Mucheru.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh" target="_blank">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><br><br></div></div>
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