Document Management System Based on a Private Blockchain for the Support of the Judicial Embargoes Process in Colombia

In recent years, the conglomeration of financial and governmental entities with responsibility for the judicial embargoes process in Colombia has met with serious problems implementing an efficient system that does not incur major cost overruns. Given the large number of participants involved, development of a centralized document management system was always deemed to be unsuitable, so that the entire process of sending and receiving documents of attachments is still carried out today in physical form, by postal mail. This article presents the development of a pilot application that instead enables embargo documents to be published and distributed within a document management system that nevertheless guarantees the confidentiality, availability and reliability of all information registered in the blockchain. On developing this solution, the very nature of blockchain was found to facilitate not only the availability and distribution of the documents, but the process of monitoring and controlling changes in them. As a result, each participant in the network always obtains an accepted version of revised documents, thus reducing costs and facilitating a greater collaboration among the participating entities.