The United States White House has released a national standards strategy for key and emerging technologies, which includes distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital identity infrastructure. The national strategy aims to increase US leadership in the development of international standards for emerging technologies and build synergies with the private sector to promote and build international standards. DLT can find great use in building cybersecurity and privacy-based features and services, and the national strategy suggests that these technologies will be increasingly used in the economic sector, such as in smart communities and the Internet of Things (IoT). The American government is actively involved in developing standards for emerging technologies, such as in the telecom and communications sector.

(By PRASHANT JHA)