The Future of Money, Governance and the Law

Voting and elections were headline news in 2020 and the drama even continues today. Unfounded claims of voting irregularities were common, particularly when the voting process involved any sort of electronic equipment or software.

Does electronic voting have a place in the voting process? Is it secure? Is it reliable? Can it satisfy all the requirements of voting? --- A process seems simple at the surface but definitely has subtle complexities.

The Future of Money, Governance, and the Law examines voting and how electronic or e-voting is being promoted and adopted in --- of all places --- Paris.

We have two experts on e-voting. These gentlemen are not just experts, but I would say they are global leaders in the field of promoting e-voting and getting it adopted through their non-profit company, Electis.

Electis, is a non-profit do-tank focused on e-voting and managing a community of academics and students from over 50 universities globally as well as NGOs and others passionate about this space. 

They organize low-stake elections with various institutions, including the UK government (election representatives of the youth for the COP26), the French national assembly, and local municipalities. 

Electis’ core value is that e-democracy tools should all be open-source, and this is the case with the voting app we have developed with the Tezos Foundation. 

Links:

https://www.electis.io

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClGdBZ1loJDP5uqLhJtm4iQ

https://tezos.foundation/

https://www.icegov.org/

https://www.techstars.com/communities/startup-weekend

https://www.electeez.com/

https://news.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/03/27/what-is-electionguard/

https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard

Profiles:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/gilles_mentre/profile/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilles-mentré-88b9856/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francknouyrigat/

Social:

https://twitter.com/StartupWeekend

https://twitter.com/peignoir

https://twitter.com/ElectisNGO

Paul Dowding is a prior GBA and industry panelist, speaker/author, DLT expert, DLT solution inventor/designer, supply chain solutions provider, and co-founder of L4S Corporation. 

Despite blockchain technology existing for five years, there has yet to be large scale adoption of blockchain in areas such as the supply chain industry. 

Although distributed, immutable records provide great benefits, the performance, limited functionality, and cost of running the current blockchains has prevented the large-scale adoption. 

What are the limitations with current blockchain designs?

What is the future of crypto assets, DeFi, and NFTs?

What is the future of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs).

Paul’s LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulfdowding/

Summary of LinkedIn Articles:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulfdowding/detail/recent-activity/posts/

GBA Member Profile:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/pfdowding/profile/

GBA YouTube Discussion on Scaling Blockchain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlCmX-p8w4

The Blockhead’s Thoughts Distributed:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuI8GtKlwqdlorpWZ7nAEEA/videos

In this episode, we walk to Mark Montoya, Chief Data Officer of the Government Blockchain Association (GBA). GBA recently released its latest study, analyzing the impact of cryptocurrency adoption on governments.

In the study, GBA looks at many factors related to cryptocurrencies and how they impact governments around the world, now and into the future, covering key areas such as regulation, ethics, privacy, jurisdictions, economies, enforcement, and tax policy.

Also, as part of the study, GBA proposed recommendations to governments dealing with this emerging reality.

Mark walks us through the genesis of the study and highlights some specific sections of the study.

Report – The Impact of Cryptocurrency Adoption on Governments:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/cmp/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-montoya-6a9aaa7/

GBA Profile:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/markmontoya6425/profile/

Celest Analytica:

https://www.celesteanalytica.com/

Gerard Dache hands over the reins of the GBA podcast, The Future of Money, Governance, and the Law, to Rick Robinson, an experience technical professional with extensive experience in cryptography (and even podcasting).

For his first episode, Rick interviews Mark Waser, CTO of the Government Blockchain Association on GBBP – the Government Business Blockchain Platform.

Mark shares his thoughts on the use case, vision, and roadmap of GBBP and describes the value that it provides to all governments at the local, state, national, and international level – providing a platform that allows other blockchains to communicate amongst themselves while at the same time, providing all the security, integrity, and availability that we would expect in an immutable, distributed, ledger.

GBBP Information:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/government-business-blockchain-platform

Mark Waser GBA Profile:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/mark-wasergmail-com/profile/

Interested in stand up your own node on GBBP? You can find the instructions and code here:

https://github.com/GovtBlockchainAssoc

Rick Robinson GBA Profile:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/rickcipher/profile/

Interested in being part of GBA? Check us out:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/membership/

GBA YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOOJ_cvniWxMhmhK2KG6yQ

Don Topscott and Gerard Dache discuss the future of blockchain in government and how the use of blockchain can be used to digitally transform government operations by focusing on five specific priorities.

Don Tapscott is the author of 16 books about the digital age, an adjunct professor at INSEAD, Chancellor Emeritus of Trent University, and a member of the Order of Canada. Last year he joined Harvard’s Michael Porter and the late Clay Christensen in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame of the world’s most influential management thinkers of all time. With Alex Tapscott, he is co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute. 

Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD):

https://www.insead.edu/

Government Report Link:

https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/new-directions-for-government-in-the-second-era-of-the-digital-age/

Blockchain Research Institute:

https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/

Thnks50 Hall of Fame:

https://thinkers50.com/hall-of-fame/

Blockchain Revolution:

https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Cryptocurrencies-Changing/dp/0241237866/

Twitter:

@dtapscott

@blockchainRI

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-research-institute/mycompany

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dontapscott

Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/instructor/don-tapscott

After to fall of Communism in the Czech Republic, Vit Jedlicka noticed that the economy in his country began to thrive. In observing the economies of other nations, he decided to study economics. Jedlicka became a member of the Czech Party of Free Citizens, which bases its values on the classical liberal ideology. This liberal ideology inspired him to create a free-market community where citizens did not suffer the burdens of over regulation. After considering many other parcels of land in which to build this community, he chose an unclaimed plot of land between Croatia and Serbia. Apparently, there was no opposition to his taking the land. Mr. Jedlicka then began the tremendous work of building a constitution, writing laws, choosing a currency, and basing the citizens’ votes on a meritorious system. At present, all citizens of Liberland are e-citizens and live elsewhere. The forested riverbank remains uninhabited.

Dr.Pavani Kadiyala andMr.Voruganti Aravinddiscuss how theblockchain industryisdevelopingin India.They specificallyaddress how supply chain blockchains are positively impact theworld. They discuss how blockchain was developed in responseto siloed systems and we are moving to siloed blockchains. Theyalso discuss how the Government Business Blockchain Platformprovides a solution.

Mark Montoya tells how a career federal regulator was exposed tocryptocurrency and eventually became the Chief Data Officer for theGovernment Blockchain Association. He explains how the adoption ofcryptocurrency impacts governments around the world. Heexplainshow data is collected from block explorers and other objectivesources to describe the size, trajectory, and velocity of thecryptocurrency eco-system.He explains how the dashboard the GBA is building will inform publicand privacy financial policy makers. The scope includes all theimpacts including economic, law-enforcement, political, and manyother types of impacts.

Find out about the blockchain ecosystem in Texas. Find out why Texas is a great place to build blockchain solutions. Lee describes the environmental, economic and tax incentives to bring blockchain projects to Texas.

Lee also describes how the energy sector in Texas creates a welcoming environment for cryptocurrency, mining, and related technologies. Gerard and Lee talk about how state and local governments can connect, communicate, and collaborate with blockchain technology.

David Auton, the Managing Director for Morpheus Analytics. He describes how cryptocurrency data can be captured, analyzed, and reported to give people a window into the future. He shares his perspectives on the current size of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, its maturity, and trends for the future. He also describes how he and his colleagues are working on tools to provide cryptocurrency insights, trends and predictions to public and private-sector policy makers and business leaders.