Citizen Empowerment: Block Chain supported E-Governance in Dairy Cooperative Sector

Abstract

Majority of small and marginal farmers in developing countries depend mainly on dairy production. In cooperative model, members are empowered to govern their own organizations and electing its members to assume roles in governance structure need verification of their eligibilities. This process needs transparent validation of their eligibility and it is argued that block chain architecture would be helpful. In this paper, a conceptual framework is presented to relate E-Governance to block chain to explore feasibility of relating to efficient governance by bringing more transparency. In order to explore this, dairy cooperative sector is taken up and E-Governance services are assessed with service oriented architecture framework. Case of dairy cooperative society union is taken up to apply this conceptual framework and understand feasibility applying block chain principles.