The potential impact that blockchain technologies might have in our society makes it paramount to consider human values during their design and development. Though the blockchain community has been moved from the beginning by a set of values that are favoured by the underlying technologies, it is necessary to explore how these values play among the diverse set of stakeholders and the potential conflicts that might arise. The final aim is to motivate the establishment of a set of guidelines that make blockchains better support human values, despite the initial bias these technologies might impose. The results so far have been used to analyze from a values perspective a blockchain application driven by ethical values.
Tapping the trust value of the blockchain - showAlex Todd
Introduction to blockchain technology and exploration of the implications of migrating trust to automated applications and infrastructure on creating business value and established business models. Includes tools product managers can use to begin evaluating the business implications of blockchain technology on their business.
Tapping the trust value of the blockchain - showAlex Todd
Introduction to blockchain technology and exploration of the implications of migrating trust to automated applications and infrastructure on creating business value and established business models. Includes tools product managers can use to begin evaluating the business implications of blockchain technology on their business.
How to design a decentralisation: is blockchain & token needed or just a buzz...Pandora Boxchain
A presentation from a talk of Dr Maxim Orlovsky on Bitcoin Meetup in Munich https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/255206212/
The rise of blockchain technologies has given a promise of massive decentralisation, that may solve problems of fragile central parts, transparency, middle-men, conflicts of interests in many industries. The talk starts with the wider discussion of the "blockchain" ecosystem and the possible practical use-cases it may have inspired, paying attention to the traps of bad practices and anti-patterns, like using a token as a solution for all of the problems.
In the second part, we describe a practical use case where the decentralisation is needed: censorship-resistant computing and AI platform. The global community has become aware of many economic, social and futuristic problems that can appear due to dramatic progress in Artificial Intelligence development over the recent years. Can blockchain solve at least some of these problems, or make them worse? How two of these technologies can be synergic and what challenges have to be solved on the route for building decentralised AI applications? A decentralised network with resistance to censorship is essential if we are ever to see a general AI evolving to near- or post-human intelligence.
A new type of legal contract
Using blockchain technology, smart contracts rely on computers to automatically enforce the rules and penalties of an agreement. While many have predicted that they will undermine the need for lawyers (while also opening new avenues for aggrieved parties to sue), smart contracts are already being used to transfer properties, purchase goods, and wire funds.
Is your firm ready to write and argue the intricacies of a smart contract?
Join Joshua Lenon, Clio’s Lawyer in Residence, and Amy Wan, Esq., Founder of Sagewise and author of the Bloomberg Law guide on Initial Coin Offerings and the LexisNexis Private Equity Practice Guide, as they explore how smart contracts will affect the future of legal practice.
In this free, 1-hour webinar, you’ll learn about:
How smart contracts differ from traditional contracts
Strengths and weaknesses of smart contracts
How to help clients with their smart contracts
What happens when a smart contract is in dispute
This project is under the Alternative Investment course lectured by Professor David Lee at SMU. These slides illustrate the definition, history, types and future of crowdfunding. More specifically, slides demonstrate that, innovative technology, blockchain, will be employed in crowdfunding.
Blockchain law and governance: General Conclusion -- Milan, October 2019Tony Lai
Slides for a presentation given by Tony Lai to conclude the conference on Blockchain Law and Governance – Good for All: Towards a Paradigm Shift, at the Università degli Studi di Milano, on October 26th, 2019. https://apps.unimi.it/web/eventi/resources/external/uploaded/3853_555.pdf
A Lay of the Meta-land: A Systematic Approach to Dissect the MetaverseCatrinaWang4
What exactly comprises the Metaverse? How & where can VCs invest to accelerate the momentum without falling prey to FOMO?
Over the past month, I’ve decided to dig down the rabbit hole to conduct a holistic assessment of what the Metaverse actually entails - a lay of the Meta-land. Over 30+ interviews, 50+ hours of podcasts, and many-MANY secondary research articles, I finally dissected the umbrella term into 10 “investable” areas with a software focus. These investable areas are further segmented into three buckets: “Diamond”, “Goldmine,” and “Raw Gem,” then narrowed down to top areas as a basis for my follow-on investment thesis part II centered around Metaverse Interoperability (work in progress).
Happy reading, and feel free to hit me up with any feedback/comments or better yet, nerd-out sessions!
Tokenization on Blockchain is a steady trend of 2018. It seems that everything is being tokenized on Blockchain from paintings, diamonds and company stocks to real estate. Thus, we took an asset, tokenized it and created its digital representation that lives on Blockchain. Blockchain guarantees that the ownership information is immutable.
Unfortunately, some problems need to be solved before we can successfully tokenize real-world assets on Blockchain. Main problem stems from the fact that so far, no country has a solid regulation for cryptocurrency. For example, what happens if a company that handles tokenization sells the property? They have no legal rights on the property and thus are not protected by the law. Another problem is that this system brings us back some sort of centralization. The whole idea of Blockchain and especially smart contracts is to create a distrustful environment.
Tokenization is a method that converts a digital value into a digital token. Tokenization can be used as a method that converts rights to an asset into a digital token. The tokenization system can be implemented local to the data that is tokenized or offloaded to cloud. Tokenization in cloud can provide a lower total cost of ownership by sharing resources implementation and administration. A high level of security can be achieved by separating the tokenization system into a container that can be run on-prem or isolated in a remote private cloud.
This session will discuss tokenization, blockchain and tokenization in blockchain. In this session I will describe what it means to tokenize an asset on Blockchain and how it applies to physical assets.
The Nuances of Tokenization: A brief explanation on attempts from this past d...Tim Swanson
There are many misconceptions surrounding the world of NFTs. To fully understand how (art-related) NFTs arose we need to look back at the history of tokenization and fungible tokens as a whole. This brief overview was first presented at the Web 3.1 Unconference on February 28, 2022: https://web31.xyz/
Innovation potential of the blockchain, and of decentralized applicationsJan Brejcha
The chain of transaction blocks, or blockchain, is a trustless shared public ledger of bitcoin transactions, synchronized in a peer-to-peer network. Thanks to decentralization the ledger is immutable.
Part of a panel conversation, first presented at the UC Berkeley Blockchain Course on April 23, 2018
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-berkeley-blockchain-course-guest-panel-series-v-blockchain-in-2040-tickets-45226658152#
The Tokenization of Everything - SAP Central Bank Executive Summit 2019Todd McDonald
This is a recent presentation that I gave at the SAP Central Bank Executive Summit 2019 in Frankfurt (many thanks to our hosts at SAP for inviting R3 to present). The topic is 'The Tokenization of Everything' which extends upon some recent talks that I have given about digital assets and tokens representing the third revolution of blockchain tech (after censorship resistant cryptocurrencies and the 'what I see is what you see' single source of truth of enterprise blockchains). This takes a slight twist on that approach by positioning how both asset tokens and value tokens provide value on their own...but will be most powerful when deployed and used together to achieve lower risk and friction settlement (atomic DvP). Hope you enjoy and as always feedback is welcome.
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
"From Crypto Equity to Crypto Commons"
Conference Presentation at the P2P Financial Systems Workshop
Bundesbank, Frankfurt - January 2015
https://www.ecurex.com/p2pfisy/
How to design a decentralisation: is blockchain & token needed or just a buzz...Pandora Boxchain
A presentation from a talk of Dr Maxim Orlovsky on Bitcoin Meetup in Munich https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/255206212/
The rise of blockchain technologies has given a promise of massive decentralisation, that may solve problems of fragile central parts, transparency, middle-men, conflicts of interests in many industries. The talk starts with the wider discussion of the "blockchain" ecosystem and the possible practical use-cases it may have inspired, paying attention to the traps of bad practices and anti-patterns, like using a token as a solution for all of the problems.
In the second part, we describe a practical use case where the decentralisation is needed: censorship-resistant computing and AI platform. The global community has become aware of many economic, social and futuristic problems that can appear due to dramatic progress in Artificial Intelligence development over the recent years. Can blockchain solve at least some of these problems, or make them worse? How two of these technologies can be synergic and what challenges have to be solved on the route for building decentralised AI applications? A decentralised network with resistance to censorship is essential if we are ever to see a general AI evolving to near- or post-human intelligence.
A new type of legal contract
Using blockchain technology, smart contracts rely on computers to automatically enforce the rules and penalties of an agreement. While many have predicted that they will undermine the need for lawyers (while also opening new avenues for aggrieved parties to sue), smart contracts are already being used to transfer properties, purchase goods, and wire funds.
Is your firm ready to write and argue the intricacies of a smart contract?
Join Joshua Lenon, Clio’s Lawyer in Residence, and Amy Wan, Esq., Founder of Sagewise and author of the Bloomberg Law guide on Initial Coin Offerings and the LexisNexis Private Equity Practice Guide, as they explore how smart contracts will affect the future of legal practice.
In this free, 1-hour webinar, you’ll learn about:
How smart contracts differ from traditional contracts
Strengths and weaknesses of smart contracts
How to help clients with their smart contracts
What happens when a smart contract is in dispute
This project is under the Alternative Investment course lectured by Professor David Lee at SMU. These slides illustrate the definition, history, types and future of crowdfunding. More specifically, slides demonstrate that, innovative technology, blockchain, will be employed in crowdfunding.
Blockchain law and governance: General Conclusion -- Milan, October 2019Tony Lai
Slides for a presentation given by Tony Lai to conclude the conference on Blockchain Law and Governance – Good for All: Towards a Paradigm Shift, at the Università degli Studi di Milano, on October 26th, 2019. https://apps.unimi.it/web/eventi/resources/external/uploaded/3853_555.pdf
A Lay of the Meta-land: A Systematic Approach to Dissect the MetaverseCatrinaWang4
What exactly comprises the Metaverse? How & where can VCs invest to accelerate the momentum without falling prey to FOMO?
Over the past month, I’ve decided to dig down the rabbit hole to conduct a holistic assessment of what the Metaverse actually entails - a lay of the Meta-land. Over 30+ interviews, 50+ hours of podcasts, and many-MANY secondary research articles, I finally dissected the umbrella term into 10 “investable” areas with a software focus. These investable areas are further segmented into three buckets: “Diamond”, “Goldmine,” and “Raw Gem,” then narrowed down to top areas as a basis for my follow-on investment thesis part II centered around Metaverse Interoperability (work in progress).
Happy reading, and feel free to hit me up with any feedback/comments or better yet, nerd-out sessions!
Tokenization on Blockchain is a steady trend of 2018. It seems that everything is being tokenized on Blockchain from paintings, diamonds and company stocks to real estate. Thus, we took an asset, tokenized it and created its digital representation that lives on Blockchain. Blockchain guarantees that the ownership information is immutable.
Unfortunately, some problems need to be solved before we can successfully tokenize real-world assets on Blockchain. Main problem stems from the fact that so far, no country has a solid regulation for cryptocurrency. For example, what happens if a company that handles tokenization sells the property? They have no legal rights on the property and thus are not protected by the law. Another problem is that this system brings us back some sort of centralization. The whole idea of Blockchain and especially smart contracts is to create a distrustful environment.
Tokenization is a method that converts a digital value into a digital token. Tokenization can be used as a method that converts rights to an asset into a digital token. The tokenization system can be implemented local to the data that is tokenized or offloaded to cloud. Tokenization in cloud can provide a lower total cost of ownership by sharing resources implementation and administration. A high level of security can be achieved by separating the tokenization system into a container that can be run on-prem or isolated in a remote private cloud.
This session will discuss tokenization, blockchain and tokenization in blockchain. In this session I will describe what it means to tokenize an asset on Blockchain and how it applies to physical assets.
The Nuances of Tokenization: A brief explanation on attempts from this past d...Tim Swanson
There are many misconceptions surrounding the world of NFTs. To fully understand how (art-related) NFTs arose we need to look back at the history of tokenization and fungible tokens as a whole. This brief overview was first presented at the Web 3.1 Unconference on February 28, 2022: https://web31.xyz/
Innovation potential of the blockchain, and of decentralized applicationsJan Brejcha
The chain of transaction blocks, or blockchain, is a trustless shared public ledger of bitcoin transactions, synchronized in a peer-to-peer network. Thanks to decentralization the ledger is immutable.
Part of a panel conversation, first presented at the UC Berkeley Blockchain Course on April 23, 2018
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-berkeley-blockchain-course-guest-panel-series-v-blockchain-in-2040-tickets-45226658152#
The Tokenization of Everything - SAP Central Bank Executive Summit 2019Todd McDonald
This is a recent presentation that I gave at the SAP Central Bank Executive Summit 2019 in Frankfurt (many thanks to our hosts at SAP for inviting R3 to present). The topic is 'The Tokenization of Everything' which extends upon some recent talks that I have given about digital assets and tokens representing the third revolution of blockchain tech (after censorship resistant cryptocurrencies and the 'what I see is what you see' single source of truth of enterprise blockchains). This takes a slight twist on that approach by positioning how both asset tokens and value tokens provide value on their own...but will be most powerful when deployed and used together to achieve lower risk and friction settlement (atomic DvP). Hope you enjoy and as always feedback is welcome.
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
"From Crypto Equity to Crypto Commons"
Conference Presentation at the P2P Financial Systems Workshop
Bundesbank, Frankfurt - January 2015
https://www.ecurex.com/p2pfisy/
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization is governed by a set of software rules enacted by smart contracts on a blockchain. Potential use-cases are presented, as well as current applications of the technologies. DAOs promise to enable novel decision-making processes in an organization, innovate the current business models, and create new ones.
A quick overview on Blockchain and how this technology will help in bringing the trust in a decentralized network. This was presented in IASA eSummit: http://iasaglobal.org/june-2016-esummit/
VCs have for the most part retreated from investing in Bitcoin and Blockchain. The appetite for blockchain products however has only increased. Corporations have formed consortiums such as R3 and the Hyperledger Project to learn more about the technology. Numerous enterprises have rolled out internal pilots to test and explore the applications of blockchain.
At Thomvest, we believe blockchain adoption is about to take off - making it a prime time for VCs to begin making early stage bets.
Take a look at our most recent research report which delves into the current state of blockchain.
Exploring Blockchain: From Ideas to ApplicationsDavid Bieri
Exploring Blockchain looks at the economic, business and social implications of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.
Taught by David Bieri, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Associate Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, the webinar examines the basics of blockchain, along with the potential for blockchain to improve business and government operations. We'll focus on applications such as finance, supply chain management, voting and digital identity
Week 5 - Blockchain Economics: Strategic Value in Private Blockchain Roger Royse
Instructor: Roger Royse, Founder of Royse Law Firm
Course Title: The Business Basics of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Tokens
Location: Stanford Continuing Studies
Week: 5 (of 7)
The fifth class will get into how blockchain technology will shape innovation in different industries. Relying on economic theory, we will address the question of “How can companies determine if there is strategic value in blockchain?” We will evaluate blockchain’s value in short-term and long-term perspective and explain how companies take a structured approach in developing blockchain strategies. We will examine several successful private blockchain projects such as Maersk TradeLens and look at the factors that come into play when determining whether to use a public or a private blockchain.
This presentation by Peder Østbye, Special Adviser, Norges Bank, was made during the discussion “Blockchain and Competition” held at the 129th meeting of the OECD Competition Committee on 8 June 2018. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/2gx.
OECD Blockchain Conference - Competition Law - Falk SchoeningFalk Schöning
Presentation by Falk Schöning, Partner at international law firm Hogan Lovells Brussels, on antitrust / competition law aspects of blockchain, in particular regarding access to permission-based aka closed blockchains. These slides have been presented at the OECD Blockchain Conference on 5 September 2018 in Paris, France.
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CopyrightLY: Blockchain and Semantic Web for Decentralised Copyright ManagementRoberto García
CopyrightLY focuses on building an authorship and rights management layer that provides a set of services to claim authorship, on both content and data. Moreover, it also makes it possible to attach reuse terms to these claims, which state the conditions to reuse the associated data or content. This authorship and rights management layer will constitute the foundation for future services built on top of it, like social media copyright management or media monetisation through NFTs.
Facilitating an agricultural data ecosystem- The EU Code of conduct on agric...Roberto García
To facilitate the creation of a data ecosystem in the agricultural sector that allows the realisation of its full potential, existing barriers that complicate data collection, integration and exploitation should be lowered. Codes of conduct, such as that of the European Union, are aimed at these difficulties. The experience gained during the development of the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative data portal shows that following the recommendations of the code of conduct facilitates the emergence of a community of data providers and an ecosystem for its exploitation.
Invited Talk, International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2021) New Delhi, India - February 25, 2021
The objective of this talk is, from a pragmatic point of view, to show examples of applications using semantic technologies in whose development the presenter has been involved. The talk will start showing a toy application, used in the classroom for teaching purposes but that illustrates all aspects of a typical development benefiting from semantic technologies. From integrating different data sources to creating an end-user interface. Then, the talk moves to bigger, real-world projects ranging from the application of semantic technologies for copyright management to media monitoring for plant health threats.
Facilitant un ecosistema de dades agràries:El codi de conducta de la Unió Eu...Roberto García
Per facilitar la creació d'un ecosistema de dades en el sector agropecuari que permeti extreure tot el potencial de la seva digitalització, s'han de trencar les barreres que compliquen la recol·lecció, integració i explotació de les dades. Els codis de conducta, com el de la Unió Europea, justament estan enfocats en aquest sentit. Es presenta l'experiència amb el portal de dades de la Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative, que justament mostra com seguir les recomanacions del codi de conducta permet l'emergència d'una comunitat de proveïdors de dades i un ecosistema per a la seva explotació.
Social Media Copyright Management using Semantic Web and BlockchainRoberto García
Solutions based on distributed ledgers require sophisticated tools for data modelling and integration that can be overcome using semantic and Linked Data technologies. One example is copyright management, where we attempt to adapt the Copyright Ontology so it can be used to build applications that benefit from both worlds, rich information modelling and reasoning together with immutable and accountable information storage that provides trust and confidence on the modelled rights statements. This approach has been applied in the context of an application for the management of social media re-use for journalistic purposes.
Semantic Web and Blockchain for Decentralized and Web-wide Content Management in the Era of Social Media
Digitalisation and the web have made it difficult for content owners to manage their rights, keep track of how their content is used and paid for. Creators also struggle to be paid royalties in a timely way. While changes are needed, a balance is required so that creativity is not stifled with a resulting loss to society. These challenges require mechanisms that scale to the Web but take into account the subtleties of the underlying copyright regimes, including moral rights, fair use and other exceptions.
We propose using Web 3.0 technologies - ranging from semantic technologies to blockchain. Semantic technologies provide knowledge representation tools capable of modelling copyright and enable computer-supported rights management. Blockchain with smart contracts makes it possible to both register copyright and record transactions in a trustless environment while providing for automatic execution of the smart contract’s terms.
Together, semantic representations like Copyright Ontology smart contracts provide a promising foundation to build a decentralised platform capable of dealing with rights management at the Web scale and enable new business models that better accommodate copyright in the era of social media.
Exploring a Semantic Framework for Integrating DPM, XBRL and SDMX DataRoberto García
Proposal of a common framework based on semantic technologies for integrating financial (and non-financial) data using a multidimensional approach based on the RDF Data Cube vocabulary
Integration and Exploration of Financial Data using Semantics and OntologiesRoberto García
Keynote at the Eurofiling XBRL Week, Academic Track, 6-9 June 2017. Hosted by the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany. The keynote reported about one the first attempts to move a significant amount of XBRL to the Semantic Web, modelling XRML XML with RDF and XBRL Taxonomies with OWL.
Multilingual Ontology for Plant Health Threats Media MonitoringRoberto García
Development and testing of the media monitoring tool MedISys for the early identification and reporting of existing and emerging plant health threats guided by a plant health threats ontology
BESDUI: Benchmark for End-User Structured Data User InterfacesRoberto García
BESDUI is a first proposal to establish an accepted benchmark to measure the performance, from an end-user perspective, of tools for structured data exploration and search. This includes relational and semantic data. More details: http://w3id.org/BESDUI
Semantic Management of your Media Fragments RightsRoberto García
Presentation for the MediaMixer project webinar about the application of semantic technologies for digital asset and media fragments copyright management. The presentation includes motivation for going beyond Digital Rights Management (DRM), details about copyright modelling using Semantic Web technologies, the Copyright Ontology and its implementation.
Semantic Technologies for Copyright ManagementRoberto García
Introduction to the semantic technologies for copyright management put into practice in the context of the MediaMixer project. Presentation at the 1st Winter School on Multimedia Processing and Applications (WMPA'14) organised by the MediaMixer project and colocated with the MultiMedia Modelling Conference (MMM'14) in Dublin, Ireland.
The MediaMixer project and community promote the use of semantic technologies for media mixing through real use cases and demos that showcase them, including Digital Asset Management systems. A typical MediaMixer demo will involve fragmenting media assets, annotating them using semantic descriptions and exposing these descriptions to customers, for fragment level search and selection. Fragments will be also linked to rights information based on a copyright ontology, which integrates contracts, policies and rights expressions based on existing standards like DDEX, Creative Commons or MPEG-21.
Linked Data: the Entry Point for Worldwide Media Fragments Re-use and Copyrig...Roberto García
One of the biggest barriers for the uptake of a Web of Media is the availability of easy ways to reuse media fragments and manage their copyright. Existing proposals provide limited solutions or find it difficult to scale to the Web. MediaMixer contributes state of the art techniques for media fragment detection and semantic annotation.
This is complemented with copyright management integrated into the Web fabric, using Linked Data principles and reasoning based on a Copyright Ontology. Altogether, it can make possible to navigate the Web retrieving the metadata describing a piece of content to be reused, linked to the agreement about its copyright, the parties that will share the revenue, etc.
A typical MediaMixer demo involves:
* Fragmenting media assets
* Annotating them using semantic descriptions
* Modeling licenses, policies,... using the Copyright Ontology
* Exposing them for fragment level retrieval and re-use, including copyright reasoning
Semantic Copyright Management of Media FragmentsRoberto García
The amount of media in the Web poses many scalability issues and among them copyright management. This problem becomes even bigger when not just the copyright of pieces of content has to be considered, but also media fragments. Fragments and the management of their rights, beyond simple access control, are the centrepiece for media reuse. This can become an enormous market where copyright has to be managed through the whole value chain. To attain the required level of scalability, it is necessary to provide highly expressive rights representations that can be connected to media fragments. Ontologies provide enough expressive power and facilitate the implementation of copyright management solutions that can scale in such a scenario. The proposed Copyright Ontology is based on Semantic Web technologies, which facilitate implementations at the Web scale, can reuse existing recommendations for media fragments identifiers and interoperate with existing standards. To illustrate these benefits, the papers presents a use case where the ontology is used to enable copyright reasoning on top of DDEX data, the industry standard for information exchange along media value chains.
MediaMixer: facilitating media fragments mixing and its rights management usi...Roberto García
The MediaMixer project and community promote the use of semantic technologies for media mixing through real use cases and demos that showcase them. A typical MediaMixer demo will involve fragmenting media assets, annotating them using semantic descriptions and exposing these descriptions to customers, for fragment level search and selection. Fragments will be also linked to rights information based on a copyright ontology, which integrates licenses, policies and rights expressions based on existing standards like DDEX, ODRL or MPEG-21.
Talk about Exploring the Semantic Web, and particularly Linked Data, and the Rhizomer approach. Presented August 14th 2012 at the SRI AIC Seminar Series, Menlo Park, CA
Facets and Pivoting for Flexible and Usable Linked Data ExplorationRoberto García
The success of Open Data initiatives has increased the amount of data available on the Web. Unfortunately, most of this data is only available in raw tabular form, what makes analysis and reuse quite difficult for non-experts. Linked Data principles allow for a more sophisticated approach by making explicit both the structure and semantics of the data. However, from the end-user viewpoint, they continue to be monolithic files completely opaque or difficult to explore by making tedious semantic queries. Our objective is to facilitate the user to grasp what kind of entities are in the dataset, how they are interrelated, which are their main properties and values, etc. Rhizomer is a tool for data publishing whose interface provides a set of components borrowed from Information Architecture (IA) that facilitate awareness of the dataset at hand. It automatically generates navigation menus and facets based on the kinds of things in the dataset and how they are described through metadata properties and values. Moreover, motivated by recent tests with end-users, it also provides the possibility to pivot among the faceted views created for each class of resources in the dataset.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
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ETHICOMP 2020: Exploring Value Sensitive Design for Blockchain Development
1. EXPLORING VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN
FOR BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPMENT
Human-Computer Interaction and Data Integration Research Group
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Universitat de Lleida
PhD Roberto García
Associate Professor
PhD Rosa Gil
Associate Professor
Source: http://graphics.reuters.com/TECHNOLOGY-BLOCKCHAIN/010070P11GN/index.html
2. Motivation
• Potential impact of blockchain technologies in society
• Consider human values during their design and
development
• Blockchain community own set of values favored by
the technology
• Explore how these values play among the diverse set
of stakeholders and the potential conflicts
• Define guidelines that make blockchains better
support human values
• Despite the initial bias these technologies might impose
3. Introduction
• Blockchains have their roots in Bitcoin
• After many attempts to create digital money, Nakamoto (2008) made a
revolutionary proposal that resulted in the first cryptocurrency
• Bitcoin is decentralized
• No need for central control keeping track of who owns every Bitcoin
• Based on distributed ledger
• All nodes participating in running the blockchain hold a copy of the ledger
with all the Bitcoin transactions to date
• They control no-one cheats, discouraged through a incentives system for
those behaving properly, e.g. mining rewards
Recommended:
http://graphics.reuters.com/TECHNOLOGY-BLOCKCHAIN/010070P11GN/index.html
4. Introduction
• Second generation blockchains, like Ethereum (Buterin, 2014)
• Distributed ledgers keep track of transactions and current
state of a shared computer
• Replicated and run in every blockchain node to guarantee that it
produces the same computations for everyone
• Application developers can program this shared
computer, smart contracts
• In the sense that it can be trusted that their code will execute as
programmed
• Example: escrow payment application that does not require a
trusted third party
5. Introduction
• Overall, potential to change the ways that people and
organizations trust each other
• By establishing a shared and tamper-proof registry of events
that aims to be decentralized and neutral
• Potential shift in control of money, law and government
• that those traditionally intermediating might perceive as a
menace
• Longer term, blockchain-based applications might evolve
into a new form of society where humans and machines
can autonomously interact
• For instance, self-driving cars that get paid and use the income
to pay their energy consumption or repairs
6. Objectives
• To date, blockchain core values have been:
autonomy, privacy and trust
• Assure that the use of blockchain technologies does not
go against other values
• Given the bias and enormous potential impact of
blockchain technologies, consider human values
throughout the design process of blockchains and
blockchain applications
• Explore Value Sensitive Design (VSD) as a way to ensure
that human values are taken into account
7. Approach
• Stakeholders analysis (literature review)
• Mainly direct and targeted. Pro-social?
• Non-targeted: malicious hackers, money laundering,…
• Analyze the benefits and harms for each group
• Map them to the corresponding values:
• human welfare, ownership and property, privacy, universal
usability, trust, autonomy, informed consent, accountability or
environmental sustainability (Friedman et al., 2013)
• Others? Wealth redistribution
• Detect value tensions mitigation GUIDELINES
8. Benefits, Harms & Values
• Miners: run nodes looking for rewards for those that
do not cheat. Prove their commitment through a
costly task (proof of work) or the deposit of an
economic amount as a guarantee (proof of stake)
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Miners - Economic rewards.
- Participating in the
decentralization movement.
- Enjoying additional privacy by
interacting with the blockchain
through an own node.
- Changes in rewards or costs might
make mining not profitable.
- Entry barriers due to the increasing
investments required because the
chance of earning rewards is
proportional to the commitment.
- Environmental impact of mining when
it is based on the intensive use of
computational resources
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
- Privacy
- Trust
- Autonomy
- Accountability
- Environmental
Sustainability
9. Benefits, Harms & Values
• Core Developers: create and define the evolution of the
blockchains they are involved in by contributing to its
codebase. For instance, they can change the rewards that
miners receive or the costs of transactions
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Core
Developers
- Participating in the
decentralization movement.
- Public acknowledgement from
the developer community,
usually blockchains are open
source projects to facilitate
accountability and trust
- Influencing the evolution of the
blockchain or cryptocurrency
ecosystem.
- Risk of losing the interest of miners or
users that might abandon a blockchain
and make it useless
- Pressures from other stakeholders
(including exchanges or key personalities
and celebrities)
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
- Trust
- Autonomy
- Accountability
10. Benefits, Harms & Values
• Entrepreneurs: create applications on top of blockchains that benefit
from its features, especially the trust mechanisms. Trust makes it possible
to develop smart contracts, pieces of code that, once deployed,
guarantee their execution. These applications usually employ incentives
like cryptocurrencies or tokens, which might also have economic value
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Entrepreneurs - Participating in the
decentralization movement.
- Economic rewards from
investors, including token
offerings, or from users through
utility tokens.
- High costs and risks of developing
projects on top of a nascent technology
with a lot of uncertainties
- Complex technology imposes high entry
barriers to potential users
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
- Universal usability
- Trust
- Autonomy
- Accountability
11. Benefits, Harms & Values
• Investors: buy cryptocurrencies and other tokens as
an investment. They try to forecast the success of the
associated blockchain or application, which might
increase their demand and consequently their value
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Investors - Participating in the
decentralization movement,
operating outside traditional and
more restricted investment
ecosystems
- Investment returns are usually
higher than other more mature
markets.
- Higher risks than other more mature
markets, including legal voids and
potential scams
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
- Autonomy
12. Benefits, Harms & Values
• Users: employ blockchains to make cryptocurrency
transactions or to use applications developed on top of
blockchains, which might also include direct or indirect
economic transactions but also other kinds of uses as
registering agreements or voting
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Users - Participating in the
decentralization movement.
- Economic incentives derived
from cryptocurrencies and
tokens earned as a reward for
contributing to the application
being used.
- Additional complexities introduced by
an immature technology might produce
economic harms
- Risk of losing collected rewards if the
economic volatility associated with the
blockchain ecosystem makes them less
valuable
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
- Privacy
- Trust
- Autonomy
- Accountability
- Informed Consent
13. Benefits, Harms & Values
● Exchanges: provide mechanisms to convert fiat currencies to the
cryptocurrencies they have listed. Most of them are centralized
and require that users move their holdings to accounts in the
exchange. More recently, and thanks to smart contracts,
decentralized exchanges have also become available
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Exchanges - Economic profit from
transaction fees.
- Influencing the evolution of the
cryptocurrency ecosystem.
- Potential to reach a more
diverse user base and reduced
costs of operation.
- Higher risks than other more mature
markets, including legal voids and
potential scams
- Accumulation of value makes them very
attractive to malicious hackers
- Ownership and
property
- Trust
- Autonomy
- Accountability
14. Benefits, Harms & Values
● Key personalities and celebrities: are people that
have influence in a particular blockchain community,
or its associate cryptocurrency, like the creators of
some blockchains or celebrities from media
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Key
personalities
and
celebrities
(indirect)
- Participating in the
decentralization movement.
- Participation in investments
and other economic rewards
related to cryptocurrencies and
tokens.
- Higher risks than other more mature
markets
- Potential popularity harms due to legal
or other kinds of issues associated to the
blockchain or application being
supported
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
15. Benefits, Harms & Values
● Regulators: organizations responsible for ruling
and surveilling the operation of finance, transport,
energy,…
Stakeholder Benefits Harms Values
Regulators,
financial
systems,
energy,…
(indirect)
- Alternative mechanisms to
regulate through incentives
- Costs reductions
- Facilitate the availability of
banking and financial services
- Lack of control and enforcement
measures over blockchain actors,
pseudo-anonymous or outside
jurisdiction
- Higher risks than other more mature
markets, volatility
- Legal uncertainties
- Human Welfare
- Ownership and
property
- Accountability
16. Preliminary Empirical Investigation
● Stakeholders:
● Entrepreneurs
● Investors
● Users
● Regulators (indirect)
● Values:
● Human welfare
● Trust
● Autonomy
● Accountability
● Environmental
sustainability
● Wealth redistribution
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17. Preliminary Conclusions
• The study highlights potential value tensions:
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• trust vs. environmental sustainability
• ownership vs. wealth redistribution
• …
• Trade-offs among competing values in the design,
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• For instance, blockchain technologies due to their immutability imply
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• Issues are addressed during the whole blockchain application
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• For instance, improve user privacy by encrypting or hashing personal data
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18. Future Work
• Additional empirical investigations that help clarify the
outcomes of different blockchains and applications
regarding the identified values
• Identify the whole set of value tensions and biases from
underlying blockchain technologies
• Generate a complete set of guidelines that make
blockchains and smart contracts better support human
values
19. Thank you for your attention
Questions?
Contact:
rosamaria.gil@udl.cat
roberto.garcia@udl.cat
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