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Cities and Urbanization
How blockchain can empower smart cities - and why interoperability will be crucial
Advanced technology in smart cities can play a key role in managing efficient urban expansion, but interoperability and openness are essential for success.
Blockchain
What is blockchain and what can it do?
Blockchain’s potential uses extend far beyond digital currencies, from food to photography and vaccines to patents.
Workforce and Employment
This is how companies can improve their supply chain of talent
Lacking in today’s human resource processes are the visibility, traceability and verifiability necessary to meet the needs of a global economy.
Arts and Culture
NFTs and the environmental cost of owning digital art
NFT stands for 'Non-fungible token' and is a tradeable, digital ownership certificate representing the ownership of a unique asset.
COVID-19
This is how blockchain can help fight pandemics
OriginTrail – a data authentication platform for global supply chains – proposed the idea on UpLink, the World Economic Forum’s crowdsourcing platform for innovations.
Blockchain
Key takeaways on digital currency from The Davos Agenda
As digital currencies are poised to have an impact on global financial systems, design, governance and liquidity are among the key principles in focus.
Blockchain
4 predictions for blockchain in 2021 – from cryptocurrencies to art
Even while the world has been wrestling with the pandemic, the pace of work in the blockchain ecosystem has been accelerating and promises to continue.
Tech for Good
How COVID-19 accelerated the shift towards TradeTech
The pandemic has disrupted supply chains and global commerce, driving innovation in the TradeTech field.
Blockchain
How global fragmentation is holding back blockchain’s progress
Analysis from the World Economic Forum and the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) found four key insights to guide future blockchain regulation.
Blockchain
The missing link between blockchains and enterprises
It has been difficult to connect blockchains with existing systems, slowing down adoption. Blockchain oracles provide the infrastructure to fill this gap.
Blockchain
5 reasons dispute resolution is critical for blockchain’s growth
Why do we need to care about resolving disputes around transactions happening on a blockchain? Here are five reasons backed by findings from a recent paper.
Blockchain
Why blockchain's final touches may well be human
Blockchain does not yet eliminate the need for trust. Human intervention can help bridge the gap via governance and dispute resolution.
Blockchain
How blockchain could transform background checks
Background checks can take weeks - but this solution from Saudi Aramco, utilizing blockchain, can take just seconds. Here's one company's efficient, secure solution.
Pioneers2020
Companies need to be transparent and fair to be future-fit. Here's why
Corporations need to widen their income statement to include profit, loss and a new, third column: impact. The financial implications of our social and environmental actions.
Blockchain
This blockchain co-founder looks 'for the doers' - here's why
Orbs co-founder Netta Korin explains how humility and patience helped her pivot to tech - and how she finds decision-makers to connect blockchain to solutions for social impact.