The National Research Council Canada (NRC), through its Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), announced June 19 that it has begun looking into blockchain technology. Along with colleagues from across Government at the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) Service Lab, IRAP’s John Shannon will describe a project to test out the viability of Blockchain technology in the administration of IRAP Contribution Agreements with clients.
“Blockchain technology holds amazing potential for the future for Government organizations” says Dave Lisk, Vice President of IRAP. “Bringing together so many players from across Government to discuss the technological potential and to share our ideas about the experiment is a great first step. Finding and exploiting innovations that will help Canada be a key contributor on the world innovation stage is important work. I’m excited to see where this leads.”