The prospective US presidential candidate is trying to reach out to fintech circles as her campaign team releases a statement promising state backing for innovative technologies including the distributed ledger.

The Hillary Clinton’s Initiative on Technology & Innovation has been published in advance of her expected nomination as the presidential candidate from the Democratic Party next month. The programme, among all, promotes the US’ advance as the global leader in the hi-tech sphere by means of state-supported technology exports.

“We must position American innovators to lead the world in the next generation of technology revolutions – from autonomous vehicles to machine learning to public service blockchain applications – and we must defend universal access to the global, digital marketplace of ideas.”

The document includes a subsection on a “smarter and more innovative government,” where the new technologies are suggested to boost the effectiveness of governance and public services. 

Besides, if elected, Hillary Clinton promises to carry on with Obama Administration’s “Computer Science Education for All” programme aimed at the promotion of computer education in public schools across the country. According to her estimations, by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science related jobs in the USA while in its current state the system of education will be able to produce no more than 400,000 specialists to fill them. To change that, the Initiative quotes as its objective providing every student in the country an opportunity to learn computer science.

On the legislative level, the prospective presidential candidate proposes to facilitate access to the market for innovative startups and entrepreneurs by reducing both federal and local regulatory barriers:

“Hillary will challenge state and local governments to identify, review, and reform legal and regulatory obligations that protect legacy incumbents against new innovators.”

Hillary Clinton follows the steps of other US politicians who earlier included support for the blockchain technology and related industry in their electoral agenda. In 2015, Republican presidential candidate and Kentucky senator Rand Paul announced he would accept campaign donations in bitcoin. Later his example was followed by the electoral campaign of Democratic Vice-President Joe Biden. According to the decision of the Federal Election Commission from 2014, bitcoin donations to political committees are treated as in-kind rather than monetary contributions.