Authorities of Moscow are reaching to pilot blockchain-based electronic pick in university student council elections in late June 2019, establishing strategies that the city’s mayoral election is also next to use, Russian news organisation TASS reportable on may 6.

According to the report, the project is about to be tested with the support of the capital of the Russian Federation Department of information Technology (DIT) and therefore the Moscow town election commission (Mosgorizbirkom).

DIT deputy head Artem Kostyrko disclosed that technical specifications for the pilot program can move to Mosizbirkom in period for approval. Once the mandatory legislation is passed and therefore the commission approves the specifications, the dit can launch the program publically, Kostyrko expressed.

The city council of Moscow initial submitted a bill to use blockchain in e-voting system in Feb. In late Apr, the Russian Duma passed a bill permitting the Moscow town Duma to hold out such e-voting throughout the subsequent elections on Sept. 8. The Moscow town Duma plans to guard the method and results of e-voting with distributed ledger technology (DLT).

United Russia, the ruling party of the state, launched a blockchain-enabled platform for e-voting in March.

Meanwhile, blockchain-related activity and therefore the crypto business stay for the most part unregulated within the state. Russian President Putin set a point of July 1, 2019 for the govt. to adopt such rules.

Last week, top Market group reportable on the govt. of Singapore’s new project, OpenCerts, that is intended to supply students from 18 Singaporean educational establishments with blockchain-based digital certificates beginning in 2019.

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