**8. Conclusion**

The study addressed the potential of using ANT as a tool to organise the introduction of BT in the context of digital government. This chapter highlighted the literature of both BT and ANT, and used the Sudan land registration system as an illustration.

The adoption of BT without taking into account, the many active actors in the network of relations related to it fails to explain the roles of human and non-human actors. ANT enables the roles to become clear and moves away from technology determinism to reveal important boundaries between BT's embedded social and technical characters. The flexibility in ANT to illustrate the flexible smart contracts based on local interests can help in reforming stable new and transformative networks that are persistent over longer periods.

By illustrating the necessity to negotiate actor interests in the process of enrolment, ANT could reduce the expected resistance against changing the existing power structures that favours a minority. ANT, therefore, allows for a balanced BT implementation and adoption approach that considers the important social, political and technical negotiations that accompany the introduction of transformative digital technologies.

The study was limited in using an illustration for one country. Further research is required to empirically test the use of ANT to introduce BT in digital government.

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