2020-11-7 19:48 |
The latest column from CoinDesk's chief content officer features big ideas for rethinking government in the internet age.
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) have been the talk of the town ever since the idea of a government-controlled blockchain came into prominence. The democratic ideas that blockchain technology is supposed to be a reminder for now run the risk of being compromised due to its rising popularity among government institutions the world over.
2020-5-16 23:07 | |
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The Indian state of Telangana has launched a blockchain accelerator in its recently created Blockchain District, in collaboration with Tech Mahindra. Selected startups will pitch innovative ideas and get mentored by experts from the Telangana government, Tech Mahindra, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, and IIIT Hyderabad.
2020-2-6 14:40 | |
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The Indian state of Telangana has launched a blockchain accelerator in its recently created Blockchain District, in collaboration with Tech Mahindra. Selected startups will pitch innovative ideas and get mentored by experts from the Telangana government, Tech Mahindra, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, and IIIT Hyderabad.
2020-2-5 14:40 | |
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The event will showcase emtech companies alongside academics and researchers, and see representatives from government agencies present their latest ideas and findings on the stage at Davos. Davos is well known as the meeting place for global leaders and media at the annual World Economic Forum.
2020-1-14 12:23 | |
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With day one of North Queensland’s Bitcoin Cash City all wrapped up, conference attendees were left with an overflow of big ideas to distill, process, and potentially integrate. These include underwriting merchant adoption, building tech parks and mining operations, BIP70 applications, separation of money and state, government applications of crypto, user experience, and regulation.
2019-9-5 08:07 | |
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The emergence of a buzzing crypto tech startup scene around Zug’s Crypto Valley has given unusual blockchain projects the impetus to take big ideas to the market. As an example: the country’s biggest telecom provider, which is backed by the Swiss government, has announced Noow, a blockchain service that allows customers to access digital artworks.
2019-5-27 20:27 | |
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Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, met with the country’s IT community to discuss the growth of its native tech industry, according to the state-owned national news agency, the Belarusian Telegraph Agency.
2019-4-19 16:59 | |
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Dark horse presidential candidate Andrew Yang has raced past early frontrunner Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary race, at least according to the futures markets. PredictIt. org shows the top eight presidential candidates representing the democratic party.
2019-3-29 17:00 | |
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Odyssey, a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) hackathon formerly known as the Dutch Blockchain Hackathon and Blockchaingers, is coming back for its third edition to connect innovative teams and ideas with governmental, corporate, and non-profit partners.
2019-3-24 01:12 | |
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A community roadshow has been uniting crypto enthusiasts in several cities in India to share their ideas on the country’s crypto regulation. “The best ones will be included in the report to be submitted to the decision makers amongst the government,” the organizer of the events explained.
2019-3-16 11:10 | |
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Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is sounding a lot like a tech entrepreneur these days. In a plea before a select committee on March 12 introducing ideas for Congress to prioritize in the 21st century, the GOP leader made his case for integrating blockchain technology into the government’s day-to-day operations.
2019-3-14 21:35 | |
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Universal basic income experiments and other plans that seek to distribute free money seem wonderful considering so many people struggle to make ends meet because of their limited incomes. In the U.
2019-2-10 04:01 | |
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With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games just one year away, Japan isn’t leaving anything to chance. On Friday, the country approved a law that would allow the government to hack into insecure IoT devices, in order to survey the number of easily-hackable gadgets that exist within the country.
2019-1-28 16:35 | |
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Kate Rooney, CNBC’s markets reporter, has revealed that two congressmen are working on a bill to remove crypto from the 72-year-old U. S. securities law. The representatives, Warren Davidson and Darren Soto, are calling it the “Token Taxonomy Act” and will be presenting their ideas to the House within the next few months.
2018-12-24 21:38 | |
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The National Assembly in France has recently shot down proposals to ease up the pressure on tax regulations in the crypto space. As reported by Bitcoin.
2018-12-20 22:13 | |
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On September 24, 2018, MIT Connection Science and IBM issued a 41-page joint report on the results of three roundtable discussions on the role of Blockchain in government.
2018-9-27 22:12 | |
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ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
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Queensland, an Australian province, has devised an effort to promote tourism to its state. The project, called Advance Queensland Ignite Ideas, will be funded by an $8.3 million grant. The project will then issue the funds to participating organizations who aim to fulfill the state’s goal of increasing tourism. Interestingly enough, Queensland is being creative […]
2018-8-3 09:09 | |
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The Queensland government in Australia is backing a cryptocurrency point-of-sale system that officials believe will help boost tourism throughout the area. Thus far, they have given over $8 million in Australian dollars ($6 million USD) to roughly 70 different companies that will work to inspire innovation and create new ideas within the region’s travel space.
2018-8-2 00:27 | |
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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