We noted last year in Blockchain: Changing The Nature Of Doing Business And Re-imagine How To Manage Tangible And Digital Assets, that exciting and creative enterprise use cases built on blockchain-powered systems are driving real productivity and value at scale. As organizations begin to understand blockchain’s utility and promise, they’re
Category: Blockchain Technology
Blockchain technology is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger that records the provenance of a digital asset. Blockchain is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance of a digital asset.
Source Code Repository SourceHut Is Discontinuing Cryptocurrencies And Blockchain-Related Software Initiatives
Open-source repository SourceHut is pulling the plug on software projects that tap into cryptocurrency and blockchain. In a post published on Monday, Oct. 31, SourceHut founder and creator Drew DeVault said he would ban projects associated with these technologies, citing their use in “get-rich-quick” schemes and other types of scams.
Pharmacovigilance: Advances In Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies And Data Analytics Increases Safety, Improve Equity And Enhance Engagement And Experience In Patient Support Programmes
Why Patient Safety Strategies Need To Change Ensuring the quality and safety of a medicinal product is both a moral and a regulatory requirement across the biopharmaceutical (biopharma) value chain. Pharmacovigilance (PV) is a crucial mechanism for providing evidence to the biopharma industry and regulators of the long-term safety profile
The Future Movement Of Goods: The Connected Community, Holistic Decision-Making, And Intelligent Automation
Even before the pandemic started, global supply chains were experiencing growing pains as they adapted to meet the pressures of rising demand and a delivery system in need of an overhaul. For example, shipping goods such as medicines, groceries, and everything else that powers our daily lives demonstrated the complexities
Artificial Intelligence, 5g Networks, Quantum Computing, Virtual Reality, Blockchain: It’s Important To Pause And Think Of Potential Risks, Negative Outcomes, And Unintended Consequences
There’s a familiar pattern when a new technology is introduced: It grows rapidly, comes to permeate our lives, and only then does society begin to see and address the problems it creates. But is it possible to head off possible problems? While companies can’t predict the future, they can adopt
Healthcare Data: It’s Time To Reclaim Our Data As An Asset That We Create
Data is one of the best tools we have for fighting the Covid-19 outbreak, but right now health data – like consumer data – is held in silos in many different institutions and companies. And while third parties can track, trade, and negotiate that data, the people who create it
Research: AI, Sophisticated Data Systems And Blockchain Enables Employees To Exercise Greater Strategic Judgment
While the dominant narrative about tech today is that human judgment is being replaced by machines, particularly far down on the org chart, the truth is far more nuanced. The authors have conducted research into decentralized firms in which individual employees have more, rather than less, autonomy. They found that
Digital Currencies: Small Businesses Could Benefit From Better And More Competitive Payments Infrastructure
Small businesses have largely been ignored during the debate over digital currencies, even though they’re a hugely significant part of the U.S. economy and have much to gain from cheaper, more efficient payment systems. These businesses work with small margins, have less bargaining power than large companies, and suffer from
Web3: Welcome To The World Of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Are decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) the future? The rise of DAOs as part of Web3 is just beginning, and it remains unclear whether, and how, DAOs might supplant traditional organizational structures. To explain what DAOs offer and who currently uses them in unique ways, the authors answer three key questions:
Blockchain’s Ethical Risks: How Developers And Users Can Mitigate Potential Damage
Senior leaders face a range of ethical and reputational risks in implementing blockchain projects. This article looks at four risks – the lack of third-party protections, the threat of privacy violations, the zero-state problem, and bad governance – and offers advice for how blockchain developers and users can mitigate potential
Web3 (A Read – Write – Own Version Of The Web): The Risks And The Benefits
Web3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and more. It offers a read/write/own version of the web, in which users have a financial stake in and more control over the web communities they belong
An Infamous North Korean State-Sponsored Threat Actor Lazarus Group Is Targeting Blockchain And Cryptocurrency Industries
A new Cybersecurity Advisory has been released by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of the Treasury. The advisory describes the recent activities of the Lazarus Group, who specialize in advanced persistent threats and target organizations in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries. Who Is The