It's not about adopting, but studying how to use anything from the structure of the blockchain.
Also note that they don't ever mention "hey let's use Bitcoin", they want control and not a open ledger.

I think that like the reason the very first net was born, is the reason for using the blockchain: descentralization, have the same information on multiples servers all over the place. Server down? No worries, connect to this server and everything is OK. When that server come up running again, it will recover all the data his is behin of the network and everything will run OK.

imagine it for passports..

each immigration/passport agency around the world has key's to add data, when people apply for a passport... so its a world wide passport network
its these agencies that work as miners too..

now then, all new passports are basically a transaction ID.. where the transaction does not contain tokens of value(coins). but some other information useful to passport control offices.
EG
not { Value : 12345sat }
but { D.O.B: "23-02-1980", gender : "male", }

now imagine each airport no longer needs highly secured databases and highly trained IT staff to maintain the airports databases.. they simply access the passport blockexplorer website. and scan QR codes on the passports into the blockexplorer.

the "other information" can be anything.

now imagine that by moving the data from one key belonging to america, to a address belonging to UK.. any passport office can see where the people are in the world which helps track immigration, over-stayers, etc..

all without every airport/embassy needing highly expensive security.. just a web browser

Their only interested into learning Blockchain system and eventually use it for governments works and not going steps towards crypto currencies themselves as they would surely want to be able to tweak it a bit so in the end, they still have some control over it as opposed to what it is now and their not the only one as many (other governments) have shown interests as well.

They are not hiring..
They are trying to study about crypto..
And they are also trying to take governmental control on this..
But as everyone knows.. not any government can take control over it..

the government are NOT looking into it to create "monetary tokens" (coins).. they are looking into it for data security..
EG passport ID
EG national insurance ID
EG medical patient ID

just blockchain.. and not an altcoin either as its NOT to do with token(coin) measure of value.. but data and unique identifiers

basically its about decentralized database data

because its not about financial value..
its about data..
and bitcoin doesnt have any variables/namespaces for things like date of birth, social security numbers, medical record numbers etc