Connecticut Technology Council partners with blockchain startup

The Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) has entered into a partnership with blockchain start-up Tierion for a survey that will find government data secured on the bitcoin blockchain, according to a latest report by CoinDesk. The state's Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is looking for viewpoints on issues such as workforce demand and tax code awareness, among other issues. 

"The State of Connecticut asked our team to survey Connecticut's top 200 technology companies to learn how the State can help them retain talent and grow their workforce. Tierion was used to collect survey responses and generate a blockchain receipt that can be used to verify the timestamp and content of each response" -Tierion 

Wayne Vaughan, Tierion CEO, said that the company's blockchain technology is not essential to the survey process, but rather provides them with an opportunity to expose new entities to the potential benefits of decentralized ledgers for recordkeeping.

Bruce Carlson, president and CEO of the CTC, suggested that his non-profit organization's goal is to encourage local technology development. As such, he saw the opportunity in a partnership with Tierion for his organization to learn about unfamiliar emerging innovations.

"We like being on the cutting edge of what's going and we feel like this could be leading to more projects", Carlson told CoinDesk.

The DECD survey, he added, is currently being filled out by respondents, with all data expected to be collected by 11th September. He suggested the DECD remains actively interested in the results of the survey, but that the department may not necessarily be aware of any technology providers that facilitate handling of the data.