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Under the current rules, the federal government takes the most responsibility for buying carbon credits. A blockchain-driven market would be faster, smarter, and much more open.
Recent revelations about the lack of privacy protections in place at the companies on Libra’s foundation raise concerns about how much trust users can place in Facebook’s new cryptocurrency.
Countries in Africa have some of the highest rates of entrepreneurship in the world, yet their contribution to the economy is limited. Technology such as the blockchain, drones and AI could provide a way forward.
More than ten years since blockchains were developed, their usefulness is only just being discovered.
Facebook’s cryptocurrency and digital wallet will give it unprecedented access to personal data, with the power to take on Amazon and eBay.
Iran has long recognised the benefits of using cryptocurrencies to counter US sanctions.
We go back to the basics and look at what Libra is, how it compares to other cryptocurrencies and whether you should be concerned about using it when it eventually arrives.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
Why the coming generation of cryptocurrencies could force us to rethink the entire monetary system.
Tech giants like Facebook are at risk of joining the ranks of Compuserve and MCI Mail to be replaced with the next generation of organizing designed for new models of distributed trust.
A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region’s beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
South Africa could become a test bed of technologies that enable households, especially in remote areas, to join electricity trading markets.
Blockchains and cryptocurrencies are being co-opted by the very system they were designed to overthrow.
Blockchain is a promising tool to fight modern slavery by making global supply chains more accountable. But there a few kinks to be worked out.
Globalization is making it harder to identify and trace outbreaks of foodborne illness. Technology can help, but consumers may also have to rethink their food choices.
A third generation of web technology could return the web to its original ideals – but do we really want it?
The blockchain is creating new opportunities for the electricity sector. The December 2018 Energy Market Barometers looks at where experts think the technology is heading.
Chinese users have started posting sensitive materials, like documents of sexual assault, on the blockchain. But the government has taken its own steps to crack down on this practice.
More democratic forms of politics, journalism and fact-checking will be needed when we can no longer trust any video footage.
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Associate Director, Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3); Assistant Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, and Co-Director, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Cornell University
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin
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Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Associate professor, University of Exeter
