Presentation given at the conference of the WOLOT Foundation in Singapore in January 2019.
Describes the vision for WOLOT and need for further development of the overall digital ecosystem.
Derives the concept of an "ecosystem of ecosystems"
8. Breaking The Data Monopolies
Trustworthyly
Decentralized
To the benefit of all
9. Thank You
› for your attention!
› Prof. Patrick Schueffel
› patrick@schueffel.de
› www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-schueffel/
Editor's Notes
My is Patrick Schueffel
I am a professor at the School of Management Firbourg in Switzerland
I live here in Singapore with my wife and two children and our dog
Before moving to Singapore I had a year long career in banking in Switzerland: at Credit Suisse and later served as the Chief Operating Officer of Saxobank Swiitzerland
Always stayed connected to the academic world, became an adjunct professor at the School of Management, Fribourg in Siwtzerland
It started in 2012 when a friend of me first showed me Bitcoin that he bought
As no user friendly and reliable wallets were exsiting, he printed out the private keys on strips of paper – each worth no more than USD 10.-
Each strip was one bitcoin.
I shrugged it off as nonsense
But ever since I kept a close eye on technology and how it may affect the world of banking and finance
I followed this passion as the head of Innovation for CS’ division «Investment Services and Products» and as an academic
I have even built a lego blockchain, attempting to my children, what the blockchain is.
Having known Ben for more than a year now and following his project closely,
I am proud that Ben asked me to join the WOLOT team
You now may wonder what my vision for the WOLOT Ecosytem is.
My vision for the WOLOT ecosystem is this!
What do we see here?
Yes, an ecosystem.
But if we look closely, we can identify many ecosystems tied together,
We see foxes and ducks,
Large fishes and small fishes
A deer on field
But in the end it’s many ecosystems integrated in one large one
We used to have company – client nucleus
This extended into a company-specific ecosystem
Other company-specific ecosystems emerged
One of the ecosystems could be a
Car dealership with suppliers for tires, with clients, with advertiser etc.
One could be a restaurant with food suppliers, with equipment providers, with guests
One could be an insurance company with suppliers who provide offices, with clients
One could be a farm with suppliers delivering fertilizer, water and machinery, buyers purchasing agricultural goods
One could be a kindergarten employing teachers, buying games and furniture from suppliers,
Link up
the car dealership with the insurer
The restaurant with the farmer
The kindergarten with the carpenter
But let’s also tied together
The carpenter with the farmer
The farmer with the car dealer
The restaurant with the insurance
The Kindergarten with the restaurant
Lets
By doing so WOLOT will break the existing data monopolies
But this will only work if we do it
In a DECENTRALIZED FASHION
TRUSTWORTHILY
and
TO THE BENEFIT OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE ECOSYSTEM