Most 'blockchain' proposals I've seen, particularly in civic technology, would be satisfied with a public git repository containing a .csv file, and also generally ignore the social issues around data ownership and quality.
This is a tremendous issue in civic tech. We have spoken with many people in the space (being in govtech, naturally run into each other) and the level of "because it sounds cool" is above the Silicon Valley mean.
There are so many problems in government. A vast majority are not sexy, but if you care about impact the roll up your sleeves.
