‘Making blockchain real’: regulatory discourses of blockchains as a smart, civic service
研究加拿大政策制定者如何通过创业话语（数字领导力、透明数据管理、数字赋权）将区块链定位为智能公民服务，以推动数据化治理。
Policymakers across Canada are considering the blockchain as a way to enable smart(er) governance. Despite the technology’s infancy, jurisdictions perceive smart tools as one of many ways to govern efficiently. Critical geographers, however, remain circumspect of datafication as a value-making process, and have traced myriad ways data-driven technologies participate in the materialization of smart policy mobilities and governance. This article uses autobiography to highlight discourses positioning blockchain technology as a data-driving and -producing civic service. Empirical findings suggest that Canadian policymakers draw on entrepreneurial discourses of digital leadership, transparent data management and digital empowerment to justify their plans in ‘making blockchain real’. These regulatory discourses promote datafication through blockchains as a way to improve government services.