Here's why global governments should copy Venezuela's stunt. This op-ed by Xische Reports appeared in the Gulf News on March 19,2018
In early 2016, a group of information and financial technologists and public officials convened on the sidelines of the World Government Summit to discuss a new technology that had the potential to disrupt the digital landscape of the city – blockchain.
Because of Blockchain, we're no longer bound to traditional currencies to exchange value. Anything that can be tokenised can be authenticated, exchanged and monitored in a global, indelible ledger.
Xische Reports hosts a panel with IBM, Dubai Future Foundation and Smart Dubai to talk about the future, at the launch of Dubai's AI Roadmap.
Ninety percent of data on the internet has been created in the past two years.
Threats to our data in the ether-world parallel a more tangible threat that has dogged society for much of our modern history: the worth of money.
On October 31, 2008, an email from Satoshi Nakamoto was sent to a mailing list of cryptography enthusiasts with the subject line, “Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper”
Extremely simplified, Blockchain is an indelible, anonymous, public ledger of every transaction you make.
The dream of a self-regulated, secure, decentralised network sparked in the 1980s, grew in the 90s, realised in the 2000s, and went mainstream in 2016.
If all goes according to plan Blockchain will be embedded within nearly every organisation on the planet in the next decade.
A team of computer programmers sort through reams of recently digitised and centralised data from the US Census Bureau, the LA Police Department, LA County Assessor.
Whispers of the modern smart city movement began in 2005, when CISCO accepted a challenge from the Clinton Foundation to make cities more sustainable.
Even as city planners work to operationalise the ICT infrastructure of the past 10 years, the technology that spurred the smart city movement continues to race forward.
After ten years of investment in smart city programs, there was no global consensus on what defines a smart city.
How are smart cities responding to the changing global technology landscape?