Aug 2026· Raqamli huquq va innovatsiya jurnali / Journal of Digital Law and Innovation· 0 citations
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The study argues that technical deployment must be accompanied by rules on personal-data protection, legal recognition, node governance, node governance, and measurable pilot-testing criteria, and illustrates differences between centralized and blockchain-based models in terms of integrity assurance, verification time, dependence on a central server, and transaction costs.
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This article examines the use of blockchain technology to improve transparency in the creation, validation, storage, and verification of diplomas, transcripts, certificates, and other academic records in higher education. While acknowledging the benefits of centralized information systems such as HEMIS, the study identifies structural limitations including a single point of failure, limited independent verification of internal changes, and time-consuming cross-bordercredential verification. A hybrid architecture combining SHA-256 hashing, Merkle trees, IPFS, and a permissioned consortium blockchain is proposed. Comparative results illustrate differences between centralized and blockchain-based models in terms of integrity assurance, verification time, dependence on a central server, and transaction costs. Percentage estimates are explicitly treated as theoretical scenario values rather than pilot-test results. The study argues that technical deployment must be accompanied by rules on personal-data protection, legal recognition, node governance, and measurable pilot-testing criteria.
Currently, the most significant threat to the validity of academic credentials in the United States is the advanced forgery of transcripts along with diploma mills. This research study addresses the potential of blockchain technology as a decentralized means to protect academic credentials. By integrating recent academic research and technical frameworks, this study analyzes the shift from centralized databases to immutable, distributed ledgers. The integration of various perspectives, including advanced zero-knowledge proof architectures as well as legal frameworks for transnational data circulation, is a major innovation of this study. Using a systematic literature review and a case study approach, the research indicates that though blockchain's potential to enhance security and automate processes through smart contracts is indeed great, a number of legal, compliance, and technical barriers have to be removed for it to be a viable option. This study proposes that the combination of artificial intelligence (AI), along with blockchain technology, provides the most secure option for U.S. higher education institutions.
Sathy Akter· Australian Journal of Engine...· 0 citations
Disease surveillance systems face delays in data collection, validation, and reporting at various levels, which undermines early detection and rapid response. Blockchain technology, as a transparent and immutable architecture, can accelerate the flow of epidemiological data and increase trust among actors, but the transition from idea to practical tool requires an analysis of requirements and limitations. This article examines the key challenges of applying blockchain in disease surveillance in two axes: first, governance challenges, data sovereignty, and the inherent conflict of decentralized architecture with epidemiological requirements and privacy laws; second, technical, infrastructural, and operational challenges such as digital identity, interoperability, communication limitations, economic model, and security vulnerabilities. Therefore, the conclusion shows that blockchain can only contribute to transparency and traceability in the form of permissioned/consortium networks with verified identity, and its true effectiveness depends on feasibility studies, piloting, and intelligent combination with data exchange standards and international cooperation.
Vahid Mirzajani Harandi· Blockchain in Healthcare Tod...· 0 citations
The increasing digitalization of higher education has created growing demands for secure and transparent academic data management. As a background, conventional academic information systems remain vulnerable to data manipulation, unauthorized access, and difficulties in verifying the authenticity of academic records. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the role of blockchain technology in enhancing academic data security and transparency within higher education institutions. The method employed in this research is a quantitative approach using a survey questionnaire distributed to 173 respondents consisting of students, academic staff, and administrative personnel from various higher education institutions. The collected data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationships between blockchain technology adoption, academic data security, and academic transparency. The results reveal that blockchain technology has a significant positive effect on academic data security by providing decentralized data storage, cryptographic protection, and immutable transaction records. In addition, blockchain implementation significantly improves academic transparency by enabling reliable verification, traceability, and authenticity of academic information and credentials. The findings suggest that blockchain technology can minimize the risk of data tampering while strengthening stakeholder trust in academic information systems. In conclusion, blockchain technology serves as an effective solution for improving academic data security and transparency, contributing to the development of a trustworthy and data-driven governance framework in higher education institutions.
Blockchain technology has moved beyond cryptocurrency to become a proposed trust infrastructure for data-intensive sectors. Healthcare and telemedicine are prominent candidates because care increasingly depends on cross-organizational exchange of sensitive records, remote monitoring streams, digital identity, pharmaceutical traceability, and verifiable clinical research. This paper examines how blockchain may address these needs while critically assessing the barriers that separate technical promise from sustainable clinical adoption. A descriptive-analytical methodology is applied to a bounded body of literature supplied for the study. The sources are systematically read, categorized, compared, and synthesized across four analytical domains: technological foundations, healthcare and telemedicine applications, adoption benefits, and implementation challenges. The analysis finds that blockchain's principal value is not unrestricted on-chain storage, but the creation of tamper-evident transaction histories, programmable access rules, decentralized identity, provenance, and accountable inter-organizational coordination. High-potential applications include patient-mediated electronic health-record exchange, secure teleconsultation transactions, remote monitoring, clinical-trial integrity, pharmaceutical supply-chain traceability, and research data governance. Permissioned networks, smart contracts, standards-based interfaces, and off-chain storage emerge as the most practical architectural pattern. Nevertheless, scalability, interoperability, privacy and erasure rights, governance, legal responsibility, implementation cost, usability, and limited real-world evidence remain substantial barriers. The paper concludes that blockchain should be treated as a selective governance and assurance layer rather than a universal database. Adoption should proceed through clinically bounded pilots, privacy-by-design architectures, explicit consortium governance, interoperability standards, and evaluation against non-blockchain alternatives. Future research should prioritize longitudinal clinical deployments, comparative cost-effectiveness, patient-centered consent, and regulatory accountability.
Unknown authors· International Journal of Adv...· 0 citations
The concept of meritocracy is threatened by the pervasive falsification of educational credentials, which compromises the integrity of both academic institutions and employment markets. Fraud detection and prevention are challenging due to the fragmented, unsecure, and ineffective nature of traditional certificate verification techniques. With its built-in characteristics of immutability, decentralization, and tamper resistance, blockchain technology offers a viable answer to these problems. However, the scope of current blockchainbased systems is constrained; they usually only cover particular educational levels or institutions and lack full capability. In this paper, we present ElimuChain, a unified blockchain-based system for managing and verifying academic credentials across all educational levels and establishments in a nation. Employers and educational institutions may authenticate all of an individual's certifications from a single platform thanks to the system's centralized verification portal. ElimuChain is a decentralized application (DApp) built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) that uses IPFS for safe document storage and smart contracts for automatic certificate issuance. The implementation shows that the suggested method is affordable, scalable, and able to expedite the certification and verification procedure. When compared to current systems, performance evaluations show improved efficiency in terms of transaction throughput and latency. With an emphasis on its applicability in the Tanzanian context, this study confirms the potential of blockchain in creating a strong, transparent, and trustworthy educational credentialing environment
Madiha Farnaaz, I. S. P. James· American Journal of AI Cyber...· 0 citations
It is argued that blockchain automates a narrow and historically labor-intensive slice of the audit, namely the verification of the existence, occurrence, and mathematical accuracy of recorded transactions, while leaving untouched the components of assurance that depend on professional judgment.
Gaduga Godwin· International Journal of inn...· 0 citations
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