A lot of the governments are still struggling to "define" and regulate Crypto currencies and then you get countries like Japan and Finland that are at the tip of the spear with new technologies like this. This is truly nice to see.
Even China is already into blockchain technology for many years now so this is really feasible. Even the government of Canada has implemented it already: (https://explorecatena.com/). So it doesn't make any difference whether it's private of public public, it can really be done. What we need is just awareness and implementation and most probably budget that they sponsor those public sector to try and introduce blockchain technology in their industry.