What is MaaS? Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a recent emerged business model in the transportation sector that have been gaining attraction in the last few years. There are many visions of it, but most include a usership-based, personalised, end-to-end transport service, via any mode(s), with a single payment and hassle-free journey planning and management. It integrates variousContinue reading “Decentralization, the better future for Mobility as a Service(MaaS)”
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Edge Computing: Decentralized Cloud / Intelligent IoT
Edge Computing: Decentralised Cloud / Intelligent IoT Image Source: https://www.vology.com/resource/benefits-of-edge-computing/ Imagine a world where all the devices around you are connected to a central cloud. Your smart glasses capture the data in an augmented reality environment helping you train and learn a new skill, such as skiing. Also, the smart watch on your wrist monitorsContinue reading “Edge Computing: Decentralized Cloud / Intelligent IoT”
After Open Banking, Open Retailing is Coming | How will you Adapt?
By Alisha Gautam February 10, 2020 Barneys New York, Forever 21 and Avenue are just a few of the many retailers that filed for bankruptcy in 2019. The failures of these retail empires offer an important lesson: “Don’t rest on your laurels”. No matter how big the retailer is, failing to innovate and change asContinue reading “After Open Banking, Open Retailing is Coming | How will you Adapt?”
A Quick Guide To Revolutionise Governance In Developing Countries
Most public sector challenges arise out of deciding the most efficient resource allocation between competing options. Should the government spend more on education, healthcare or infrastructure projects? And even within a sector, what kind of resource allocation would make most sense? Take healthcare as an example. Governments must decide if it is more prudent toContinue reading “A Quick Guide To Revolutionise Governance In Developing Countries”
VR and Blockchain: An Emerging Frontier
Technological innovation at the intersection of decentralized public ledgers like Blockchain, and virtual reality systems, has over the last decade increasingly emerged as a new frontier of unexplored potential. While still in its infancy, applications derived from these technologies are already dramatically impact the gaming, teaching, and corporate world, as this article will detail. AContinue reading “VR and Blockchain: An Emerging Frontier”
Blockchain Promises to Empower Patients and Fuel Interoperability
A “shared care record” that optimizes the health of individuals and populations worldwide: such is the vision of interoperability. Interoperability refers to the architecture or standards making it easier for various healthcare providers to exchange patient information across various EHR (electronic health records) systems. As Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former Health I.T. National Coordinator at theContinue reading “Blockchain Promises to Empower Patients and Fuel Interoperability”
Introducing Blockchain to the Courtrooms; Improving ‘Timely’ Access to Justice
“One sector, however, has carried on as if technology had never been invented: the law. Lawyers’ working practices ‘have not changed much since the time of Charles Dickens’“ The Future of the Professions’[i] What is Access to Justice: The United Nation Sustainable Goal 16 aims for equal access to justice for all.[ii] Rule of lawContinue reading “Introducing Blockchain to the Courtrooms; Improving ‘Timely’ Access to Justice”
Twitter: Decentralizing News or Fiction?
It’s been only two decades since online social media really came into our lives. But who knew that as these platforms would become bigger and turn mainstream, they would revolutionize how communicate with each other! Today, these platforms are not only used by an average person, but have also found use by businesses, governments, politicians,Continue reading “Twitter: Decentralizing News or Fiction?”
UULALA: LINKING BLOCKCHAIN TO FINANCIAL INCLUSION
Witnessing his mother suffer without access to a bank account, Oscar Garcia, Uulala’s CEO, identified the need for banking solutions for Latin Americas. With approximately 210 million unbanked adults in Latin America and 23 million in America (Source: Access Wire), Uulala’s mission is “to empower the unbanked through sustainable inclusion in the formal economy withContinue reading “UULALA: LINKING BLOCKCHAIN TO FINANCIAL INCLUSION”
Blockchain for your flying woes
It’s December 18th and you’re at Toronto Pearson International Airport waiting for your flight to go home for the holidays. You are waiting patiently in the slightly uncomfortable chairs in boarding area for gate 68. The class division is visible as crowds begin to form in clusters for their appropriate boarding zone lines – 5Continue reading “Blockchain for your flying woes”
Strategy in the Age of Decentralization 