LEGAL ISSUES OF MODERN DISTRIBUTED DATA TECHNOLOGIES: THE USE OF BLOCKCHAIN IN PUBLIC GOVERNANCE

Abstract

The focus on informatization of society, the rapid spread of information and communication technologies and a significant increase in their number of users, the introduction of e-government, the transition to electronic document management and the use of electronic digital signatures include the accumulation of significant electronic resources and electronic documents. The solution to this problem is closely related to the use of the cutting-edge electronic information and communication technologies, such as blockchain. The purpose of this work is to study the development of the legal aspects of DL-technologies, their impact on public relations, changes related to the spread of blockchain and legal regulation peculiarities of using these technologies and to analyze the prospects for the use of blockchain technologies regarding information security, electronic document management, election and voting, public administration, corporate management. Blockchain technology allows to solve the above problems in an optimal way, to minimize the costs of participants in electronic interaction, opens new opportunities in the creation and management of electronic registers and their promotion in a network economy. Blockchain technology can be implemented to solve the problems of information management, for maintaining public registers of shareholders and members of the corporate investment fund.