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Hyperledger Meetings Calendar

References

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Welcome the group

Group News

Webinar Topic Introduction

Any audience profile polls

Speaker introductions

Executive Summary

What the topic is

Why it's important

Concepts & Best Practices 

Key Examples

Next Steps

Key Takeaways

Other resources 

Public Sector Subjects in Scope

Key areas in scope include:

1. US and EU legislation on Digital Assets, Blockchain, Privacy, AI, the Environment and ESG
2. AI Governance and Blockchain
3. ESG and Blockchain - Mohan Venkataraman ( from 2023 foundations session ) – more coming
4. UN SDGs - what are they? can they be implemented? how?
5. UN Climate Reports and Blockchain ( Climate, Water, Forests, Population )
6. Blockchain Interoperability
7. Financial System Problems, Governance and Blockchain
8. Asset Tokenization and Digital Asset Regulations
9. Payment Systems and Blockchain: Swift, RLN, Citi , CBDC and more
10. Food Supply Chain and Sustainability
11. Privacy, Security, Economies and Crime

2024 Candidate Sessions - Public Sector opportunities with smarter trust

2024 Friday Dates ..

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speakers 

Mohan Venkataraman

Andrea Forsini  - VSS, SBTI, Trade Finance Digitization   

Daniel Szego - ZKML - Trust in blockchain

Jonathan Galea - MICA Decentralization Handbook.

David DeSouza - 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 

Alfonso Govela. -  Digital Personhood Credentials - Anonymity, Trusts and Authenticity for use cases

Liz Tanner - Site Selection Mag - New Innovation Hubs. 

John Carpenter

Scott Perry -  VCs for US immigration ?

Tony McLaughlin

Mike Wise

INATBA

Tonia Demarovski 

Daniel Szego - tokenized ZKP ML apps 

Digital ID and Asset Challenges and Legislation

US

Biden 2022 Order Overview on Digital Assets Fact Sheet

Biden 2022 Order on Digital Assets details

Congressional Research on Digital Asset Reports from Departments

EU

DPP - Digital Product Permit Act

EU MICA regulation briefing overview - EU parl 

EU MICA regulation - Markets in Crypto Assets details - effective 2024

GLI - Global Legal Insights on Digital Asset Regulations  - many impact areas have free review

Oliver Wyman review of MICA article

Legal Nodes article on MICA

Other Digital Assets 

vision-of-tokenization-of-finance-swiss-fintech-2023.pdf.   link

Digital ID in government 

2024 - Digital ID Global Adoption Webinar - Riley Hughes - Trinsic

2024-did-global-adoption-riley-hughes-trinsic.pdf file

DID - countries-most-innovative-digital-id-systems - 2024 - article.

DID-8 Countries With The Most Innovative Digital ID Systems.pdf file

AI Challenges and Legislation

US

Biden Executive Order on Responsible AI details 

US Fact sheet on AI Executive Order 

US OMB releases implementation guidance on US AI Executive order

snyk.io article on Biden AI order business impact

pcast- Presidents Council on Science and Tech on AI requirements

EU

EU AI regulatory framework details - digital strategy eu

EU AI regulatory approach article - from eu

EU AI regulation news item - EU

OneTrust article on EU AI Act, NIST AI Governance Recommendations

georgetown.edu article on EU AI Act

daiki article compare EU AI Act, NIST AI framework

Other AI

genai-uk-2024-Generative AI framework for HM Government.pdf. link 

Safety and Glo6al Governance of Generativ.e Al Report.pdf. link. – 2024

Blockchain related Technologies sessions - Web3, AI, Metaverse

a>>> Web3 Global Index - Tonia Damvakeraki -  linkedin post. 

The Global Web 3.0 Index 2024

AI Governance and blockchain - Christine Sanni or Elon Musk - responsible AI legislation, strategies, European Union’s (EU) AI Act (AIA)

• INATBA - DLT-standardisation-a-comprehensive-report-2024.       DLT-Standardization-Report-INATBA-2024-Systematisation-of-Knowledge-DLT-Standardisation.  link

• Safety and Glo6al Governance of Generativ.e Al Report.pdf. link. – 2024

• Colorado Aims to Prevent AI-Driven Discrimination in Insurance link
• Musk gets FDA approval to test Neuralink on humans.  url   link 
• https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-approach-artificial-intelligence url   link 

• Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence url   link

• EU AI Act will have global impact 2022 url  link
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-sounds-the-alarm-on-chatgpt-090013543.html url  link
• AI Governance and Cities - UN - 2023 url - link
• Responsible AI keys - Paul Belaud - MSFT. url.    link. 
• AI Ethics - Samsung ChatGPT data leak - Ingrid V - url.  link
• MEP - Members of European Parliament reach deal on AI Governance Regulations  url.  link 
• AI - EU Commission pitches rules for patents ‘essential’ for standards.  url.  link 
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/critics-ai-threaten-humanity-chatgpt-060017697.html
• Google Gemini has "woke" bias programmed in for image generation of people ***
  • article 1.       article 2.      article 3

• AI as a key influencer for people's thoughts and minds

  AI as a key influencer for people's thoughts and minds linkedin

  Harari - AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation url. link 

  You don't have to convince me, you're bot needs to convince my bot — "the way the world works now"

• Responsible AI principles >> use cases, goals, principles, challenges and governance strategies - Jim Mason - my examples - gpt needs custom training for value
• Maine bans generative AI for 6 months to study impacts - 2023

Conversational AI: Opportunities and Challenges panel - PTP, AWS, - better than a bot ( directed dialogs ) - domains?  - GTECH, ATARC

TYS uses Gen AI and blockchain to solve complex verification use cases in supplier onboarding

I'm back hoping to convince you to do another presentation for our Hyperledger Meetups, Public Sector Groups on the great work your team has done combining AI and Hyperledger to create value in the supplier ecosystem and ensurel the quality of the AI models and data.

Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges panel - interact with users in natural language and create novel data - domains? 

• What is generative AI? An AI explains  url    link

• Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence Weforum url    link
• Use ChatGPT like a pro.  url.   link
• ChatGPT learning example setup url.  link
• AI could replace 80% of jobs 'in next few years': expert. url.  link
• chatgpt-picks-winning-stock-portfolio-193027927.html. url. link
• andermatt future of generative ai tools report url   link
  
  

AWS Bedrock Generative AI service url  linked notes  link

• https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

ATARC Zero Trust Programs w IIW and TOIP updates - Kaliyah or ?

• tkvm-trusted-arm-cloud_computing paper 1.   link

• Unikbase French digital twin system for unique identity based on fingerprints
• Webinar: FedRAMP Rev 5 and Beyond: Your Key to Secured Cloud Systems and Applications

Blockchain Interoperability with Public, Private Blockchains -  EBSI, EUBOF, Cacti, Yui, IBC more 

• Client_briefing_-_EU_DLT_Pilot_Regime.pdf link
• Project Lithium findings url
• EUBOF Report on Blockchain Interoperability Strategies, Challenges, Implementations

Open Wallets - OWF, - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-wallet-foundation

• EIP 4337 - wallet service - standard, implementations, opportunities

Web3 and Blockchain - Skills and funding

• Web 3.0 Utility & Required Skills for Individuals - INATBA . url.   link 
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/inatba_open-selectioEU Blockchain - Explore funding opportunities for research studies - INATBAn-of-experts-to-support-their-activity-7150803489097441280-MyW2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Low-code applications -

• Low-Code/No-Code Superpowers In Web3 article linkedin - Yuvaraj Thanikachalam 
• BIRT - 
• Gartner Emerging Technologies: The Future of Low-Code report 2023 url.  link
• Appian in Gartner Low-code review 2023  url  link
• Low-code solutions in Web3 - linkedin article url. > good article on types
• Astrakode - Low-code blockchain IDE   link

Technologies and Impacts

• trends-Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023-WEF. link. url 
• Digital Trust via a Web3 Trifecta™: Unleashing a Novel Deep Tech-Powered Tokenization Method - Dr Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes url.  link.  

Public Sector sessions

WEF - 2024 - World Economic Forum - DAVOS

https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Global_Risks_Report_2024.pdf

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/17/davos-live-updates-latest-news-on-the-world-economic-forum-2024.html

https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/iberdrola-world-economic-forum-davos#:~:text=The%20Davos%20Forum%202024%20returns,to%20drive%20forward%2Dlooking%20solutions.

UN SDGs and DLT potential - Jim Mason - 02/23/2024 

ATARC working group - Growing Good for Government - 

ewyckoff@atarc.org - (818) 854-0230 - Elizabeth Wyckoff —  https://atarc.org/sitemap/.  —   

Estonia - a transformation to Digital Government - CIO - Luukas Ilves.

https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-25/ 

estonia-wired.com-How to Digitize an Entire Government.pdf  link 

estonia-wired.com-How to Digitize an Entire Government.pdf  file 

Jim Mason - Systems Analysis Concepts and Processes for Digital Government Transformation 

Liz Tanner - RI Digital Government - Identity and Credentials solutions 

Liz Tanner - RI Digital Government Strategy and Transformation Programs

Federal Tech Hub program for key states ( RI etc ) article.     Federal Pgm Announcement.   LInkedin post 

Digital Transformations in Federal Agencies updates on the White House Executive Order from 2022

Wyoming Digital Asset Law updates

Digital Asset Regulation Trends - US and Europe

Helen Gugel  -   Ropes and Gray  -  Partner

https://newsletter.identosphere.net/. << All things Digital Identity.  <<. https://identosphere.net/

EIDAS 2.0 in EU impacts >> schalm eidas 2.0 impacts in EU. >> Qualified ledgers article. 

Marcelo from pssig on Brazil University use case for  university DID, student credential, degree credential

Banking and Financial Services sessions

Banking and Blockchain - a model built on trust - SVB, FTX - panel - Tony McLaughlin, Vipin, Jonathan Underwood, Adi Ben-Ari  -  Jim Mason

• ftx failures - jason
  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonbennick_ftx-alameda-crypto-activity-7051191638651473920-RFFH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• ftx report
  https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65748821/1242/1/ftx-trading-ltd/
• https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ftx-debtors-call-out-hubris-greed-6235210/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ftx-debtors-release-report-on-ftx-groups-control-failures-301792891.html
• https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65748821/1242/1/ftx-trading-ltd/
• icma fintech reg roadmap
  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajkgrover_fintech-regulatory-roadmap-activity-7031217872106332160-VDI1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• SVB bank failure
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-failed-to-take-enough-forceful-action-with-svb-150558388.html
• First Republic failure and rescue
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-today-live-updates-may-2-122735923.html
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-jpmorgans-late-night-scramble-to-buy-first-republic-211503341.html
• 

FDIC Bank Governance Opportunities - Silvan Andermatt, Kim Lewin FINCEN

• the-state-of-financial-crime-2023-andermatt.pdf link  url
• FBI report on Internet Crime - 2022.   url.   swtc.link
• DATA PORTABILITY IN OPEN BANKING: PRIVACY  url.  link. 

FedNow news Update - Fednow details here - payment service - Boston FED - Chuck B 

• FedNow Will Save the US From a CBDC - yahoo .  url
• FedNow Will Save the US From a CBDC-2023.pdf  link

Markets

• NASDAQ - 
• https://www.nasdaq.com/docs/optimizing-markets-for-today-and-tomorrow

Financial and Digital Asset Solutions

• FinTech Regulations Summary - 2023 - UAE report. url   link  
  • fintech-2023-report-solutions-uae.pdf file
• Project ION processes security transactions on DLT url
• Project DSM for private market securities. url
• RLN - Regulated Liabilities Network - NY FED url  link. —  Deloitte  url  link. 
• Swift CBDC settlement solutions - Kaleb Fry kaleb.fry@swift.com  or Silvan Andermatt
• Swift CBDC settlement POC Phase 1 results - Kaleb Fry
• Swift CBDC settlement POC report link - Kaleb Fry
• Digital Asset Trading - An AIMA Industry Guide. url.   link

EU Regulations on Crypto, Banking, Digital Assets, CBDC

• Understanding MICA Crypto Regulations.   url.     link
• mica-regulation-details-2023.pdf file.  link
• EU Report on CBDC  url.   link

E. EU-TechDispatch 1.2023 - Central Bank Digital Currency.  url.  link 

US Regulations on Crypto, Banking, Digital Assets

• regulations on reserves, redemption, transparency, governance << Jim
• Exploring #Blockchain Technology for Government Transparency url
• FBI-crime-report-internet-2022.pdf.  url.  link
• Compliance in Digital Assets Gen2: 2023.  url   link 

• mica-summary-2023.pdf  link

• mica-summary-2023.pdf. file

RLN - Regulations & Governance models - Tony McLaughlin -  >  payments and settlements

• Citi payment solutions – Scott Damassa

DAMA - Digital Asset Management platform - Deutsche Bank and Singapore Market Authority - Andermatt - 2023 -  url.  link 

Required >> Citi - Digital Money Symposium - 2023 - replays url 

Required >> Citi - Money, Tokens, Games, Blockchain report - 2023   - Ronit Ghose, CFA  - Head of Future of Finance - Citi Global Insights. link. file

BCG-Impact of DLT - Blockchain in Global Capital Markets.    url.   link    file.   

VCE - DTCC is a version 3 DAO managing securities settlements for a Value Chain Economy ( VCE ) - Jim Mason

• Report to the President - Digital Assets relearning Economic Principles - andermnatt - url.  link
• DAOs for Impact-Wef-2023.pdf.  url.  link. 

Asset Tokenization in the Financial World - OECD report - 2023

• https://www.oecd.org/finance/The-Tokenisation-of-Assets-and-Potential-Implications-for-Financial-Markets.pdf
• token-oecd-2023-The-Tokenisation-of-Assets-and-Potential-Implications-for-Financial-Markets.pdf  link
• token-oecd-2023-The-Tokenisation-of-Assets-and-Potential-Implications-for-Financial-Markets.pdf file
• EY Digital Asset Tokenization report
• Fidelity Ethereum Digital Assets   url.   link
• Forbes - Digital Assets.- the Future of Capital Markets. url.  link. 

Digital Asset Tokenization - 2023 - Silvan Andermatt

• Security Tokens — An ERC-Standards Comparison article

NFTs 

• ITA NFT wpaper - 2023   url.  link. -  Anup Aggarwal - explores NFTs and how they fit into the current legal landscape

Required >> Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance url bis.org - by Antoinette Schoar ( MIT )

Required >> The Technology of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) url - bis.org -by Raphael Auer et al

Biden Digital Asset Regulations Updates - Jim Mason

Liechtenstein - Dr Thomas Dunser - Digital Financial Innovations - Future Proof

Web 3 - Trust - identity Solutions - Local, Federated, Self-Sovereign

• INATBA - Web 3 and Citizen centric web model concept - 2023. url.   link
• Trust-Web3_Ingrid-Vasiliu-Feltes-2024-linkedin.com-Securing Digital Trust via a Web3 Trifecta Unleashing a Novel Deep Tech-Powered Tokenization Method.pdf. link
•  Trust-Web3_Ingrid-Vasiliu-Feltes-2024-linkedin.com-Securing Digital Trust via a Web3 Trifecta Unleashing a Novel Deep Tech-Powered Tokenization Method.pdf. file

Other sessions

INATBA - programs

Real Estate Transactions & Blockrails - Financial Fraud Prevention - Jason Bennick

Healthcare

Healthcare and Blockchain - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ingrid-vasiliu-feltes-mdmba_bhty-activity-7136111301373657088-sDG_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7135705224572256256?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

drummond-group-hipaa-checklist2pdf.pdf - compliance tracking and blockchain

ESG sessions

• Andrea Forsini - many articles - posts - reports  ***
•  Chainyard ESG presentation - Mohan Venkataraman, Chainyard CTO.   link     **** excellent
• ESG Governance Ratings-2023.   url  link
• China created solar desalinazation system
• IST ESG Framework Grid pdf. link
• Jim Mason - Environment Challenges and Opportunities follow up to Mohan Venkataraman's 2023 Foundation ESG session
• EU Commission on Environment Crime legislation updates ( to 2022 )  oveview
• Agreement on new legislation for Environment Crime between EU Presidency and Parliament.  article.   details. 
• Good Green versus Bad Green Policies << Jim Mason. 
  • does Biden Columbia dam removal mean more emissions from fossil fuel generators?    Biden dam removal decision 
  • -When-is-Green-Energy-Brown? Biden denies NE natural gas well creating higher carbon emissions for the US
  • Where is green energy reliability a problem in the US now?  wind and solar vs reliable fossil fueled plants and hydroelectric plants
  • Costs and risks of operating electric vehicles vs gas vehicles?  cost to build electric charging infrastructure?  Most studies show EVs lower cost over life of vehicle

• ESG-Showcase-Appian-AWS-Dec-2023.pdf  link. — ESG-Showcase-Appian-AWS-Dec-2023 report

• yahoo - 2024 - world-draining-precious-subterranean-reserves  ***
• AMOC - Atlantic Meridianol Overturning Circulation - predictions improving
• Flagler County studies on Cell Tower radiation impacts **

UN stats on SDGs –  https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2022  https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/goal-08/

• https://www.unsdsn.org/the-world-in-2050 - SDSN  - programs and policies decided by globalists
• Postiveblockchain.io for UN SDGs social good
• PositiveBlockchain.io project list.  url.  link.  

The Economy, Employment & Jobs - EEJ

• Jobs most likely to be replaced by AI

WEF - Challenges for the Planet - 2 yrs, 10 yrs 

• https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/planetary-boundaries-scientists-earth-commission/
• missed crime, migration, economic health, war, physical health
• WEF report on blockchain for climate action -2023  link.  url

Climate - UN Action Report - problems, impacts, opportunities, strategies

Climate - UN Water Report - problems, impacts, opportunities, strategies

Climate - UN Population Growth Trends     Climate Change Concepts, Actions

• illegal migration > https://www.yahoo.com/news/next-3-weeks-u-mexico-163125187.html
• Menedez Border Plan >.  https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_menendez_plan.pdf
• US immigration data. url.    
• US Border Patrol encounters, releases, expulsions url.  link
• Secure the Border Bill - 2023 - HR 2 - 118th. url. link
• list-approved-ngos-and-csos-moving-people url. link

Climate - multi-national challenges

• Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World - 2023 report  url
• Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World - 2023 report. link
• Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World - 2023 report.pdf file

Climate - US areas at risk from Climate change - yahoo 

• wef-blockchain-4-climate-action-2023.pdf.  link.  
• Towards Ontology and Blockchain Based Measurement, Reporting, and Verification For Climate Action - SSRN-id3717389.pdf. link

Climate - Carbon Reduction Forestry Programs -

• State of Maine Study - Dr Tora Johnson
• TGFP - The Good Forest Project - Jim Mason
• weforum.org - trillion trees challenge thru 7/31/2023 to apply for grants
  • The challenge is led by 1t.org and supported by Amazon Investor Coalition, Barka Fund, Earthday.org, Food and Agriculture Organization Inter-American Development Bank, Reforestemos, SOS Sahel, and The Balipara Foundation
• Carbon reduction through new electric generation engine – Y-Combinator Backed Airthium's Engine – url 
• June 2, 2023 ---- ESG and Blockchain - Mohan Venkataraman - ESG and Blockchain-2023-Mohan-Venkataraman-chainyard.pdf url  – link 
• weforum Seaweed farms sequester carbon
• weforum - regulations can help manage deforestation in EU
• weforum - business strategies for preserving forests

Energy Sector and Blockchain report   url.  link –  

• The Future of Energy via Reuters.    https://lnkd.in/et5b9jpZ.    linkedin link. 

Tesla Reports on Electric Energy Futures - 2023

• Intro to Report - https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-3    url 
• Report - https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf url. link
• File - Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3-convert2-electric-energy-2023.pdf - file

Food Supply Chain and F2P - Farm to Plate - building an effective supply chain keys - value propositions - Saptarshi Choudary

• F2P blog post covering many needs, F2P value points 
• F2P DLT trust architecture - linkedin - Saptarshi
• F2P Overview video on Food Supply Chain - Pramod
• weforum - regenerative farming solutions 

Merge Impact - blockchain System Tracks Ingredients from Field to Fork

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Candidate Speakers 

Thomas Dunser on Stable coins

Bills on crypto, Digital Assets

Identity - RI, GLEIF, Veres1, 

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/12/08/2570375/0/en/The-ONUART-Foundation-and-UNAOC-launches-the-One-Humanity-ID-project-a-Digital-Identity-platform-developed-by-WISeKey.html

Besu updates?

F2P - yes Q1

Effective Consortium Management 

< Nicko Guyer Kaleido 

< Tsvetan Georgiev - Senofi - Blockchain Consortia  –  https://www.consortia.io/

John McNair - GA Banking Association - impacts of regs, compliance, best practices

PSSIG Date Schedule 2023

June 30th, 10 am EDT: presentation - 

#Andrea Frosinini  -  SBTN - 241018

Andrea Frosinini

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

Business Development Manager | Trade Finance

Venu Borra

https://www.linkedin.com/in/venu-borra-09730974/

Working on Sustainability | ISO 20022 | CSRD | Trade Finance | IETF SATP |DeFI & DAO Technology Architect,Entrepreneur, Founder BFPF,Zero Knowledge,SSI(Decentralised Identity) & Privacy Advocate and Podcast Host.

venuborra@icloud.com

Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) pilot results - 2024

framework to assess environmental impacts on freshwater and land use.

Pilot overview and outcomes
Strategic insights
Lessons Learned
Best Practices
Next Steps
Blockchain Value-Add

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Friday, Oct 18 10 am EDT

Andrea Frosinini
Business Development Manager | Trade Finance

Venu Borra
DeFI & DAO Technology Architect | Entrepreneur

companies set science-based targets for nature
framework to assess impacts on water & land

Agenda
Pilot overview and outcomes
Strategic insights
Lessons Learned
Best Practices
Next Steps
Blockchain Value-Add

https://www.meetup.com/lfdt-boston/events/304006805/?slug=lfdt-boston&isFirstPublish=true

#Mohan Venkataraman

mohan@chainyard.com

April 19, 2024

great work your team has done combining AI and Hyperledger to create value in the supplier ecosystem and ensurel the quality of the AI models and data.

June 9th, 2023 10 am EDT: presentation - ESG and Blockchain - Mohan Venkataraman

Session - ESG and Blockchain

ESG has become central to every aspect of human and industrial activity. It's a topic for discussion in every event, webinar, summit, or conference. Companies have been compelled to act on climate change, reduce their carbon footprint and enforce policies on their upstream and downstream supply-chain partners. Chainyard's own SaaS platform "Trust Your Supplier (TYS)" enables supplier risk assessment and qualification including #ESG-related risks. Our speaker Mohan Venkataraman, recently, was on a panel at Wake Forest University School of Law, NC about the relationship between #blockchain and ESG. It caught his interest in understanding on a broader scale, things in this space.  Blockchains can help bring more trust, transparency, accountability, and compliance to ESG initiatives.

Come attend this excellent foundation session on ESG and why blockchain can help deliver ESG solutions. It’s a key focus for many corporate social responsibility programs.

background materials

ESG - why blockhchain is important
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/esg-blockchain-mohan-venkataraman?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BDPnK8fwFR8eLMMLvQxUDfQ%3D%3D
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-enabled-document-sharing-mohan-venkataraman?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BDPnK8fwFR8eLMMLvQxUDfQ%3D%3D
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/movee97_trust-your-supplier-featured-in-forbes-for-activity-7158144553626079232-9mrm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Speaker - Mohan Venkataraman

Mohan is a Speaker and Contributor to thought leadership in Blockchain, IoT, and Supply Chain. He is an Information Technology professional with 30+ years of proven experience, and history of servicing over 100+clients. Mohan is passionate about exploiting technology to solve business problems. His interests include evangelizing blockchain ecosystem technologies including Hyperledger, Ethereum, IoT, and AI/ML, mentoring young professionals and leaders, and working with the community to leverage technology and improve lives. As the CTO of Chainyard, Mohan has successfully deployed over 30+ blockchain solutions such as NFT Auction (PoC), Digital Health Wallet, Procurement of Contingent Labor, Regulated Product Certification, Trade Finance, Document Sharing, Retail and Machine Vision in Hyperledger Fabric 2.x. He has supported solutions in Ethereum such as Voting by Mail for USPS, Federal Grants Tokenization, International Shipping, and Property tokenization. At Chainyard, Mohan has enabled accelerators, tools, sample applications, best practices, and methods to enhance customers’ blockchain experience and reduce time-to-PoC, pilot or deliver their MVP. He is a contributor to many patent-pending blockchain solutions. Mohan has presented at the Hyperledger Global Forum, Wall Street Blockchain Association, IBM Think 2017, IBM Inner Circle (Think 2021), Data & AI 2021, NCTA (North Carolina Technology Association), BITA (Blockchain in Transport Association), IoT Slam, ConV2X 2021, and World IOT Congress. Mohan holds a dual Master’s degree in Bio-Sciences and Management from the BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India.

meetup-230609-mohan-venkataraman-esg.pptx.pdf. file

meetup-230609-mohan-venkataraman-esg.pptx.pdf. link

Thought Leader, Speaker, Principal Consultant [Strategy, Supply Chain, Healthcare, AIML, Web3.0, Metaverse, Blockchain, IoT]

https://trustyoursupplier.com/resources/leadership/venkataraman/

Mohan is a thought leader, speaker, blogger and blockchain evangelist, and leads the CTO Office Innovation Practice. He has directed several projects in the utilization of blockchain and DLT technologies to solve problems in supply chain, health care, social impact, fintech and government.

https://hgf2021.sched.com/speaker/mohan_venkatamaran.1yje1z0l

https://www.topionetworks.com/people/mohan-venkataraman-5ebbefe6843bac6436f4b44a

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/movee97_esg-blockchain-climatechange-activity-7052216248624955392-Dffh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

ESG has become central to every aspect of human and industrial activity. It's a topic for discussion in every event, webinar, summit, or conference. Companies have been compelled to act on climate change, reduce their carbon footprint and enforce policies on their upstream and downstream supply-chain partners. Chainyard's own SaaS platform "Trust Your Supplier (TYS)" enables supplier risk assessment and qualification including #ESG-related risks. Recently, I was on a panel at Wake Forest University School of Law, NC about the relationship between #blockchain and ESG, and it caught my interest in understanding on a broader scale, things in this space.  Blockchains can help bring more trust, transparency, accountability, and compliance to ESG initiatives.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/esg-blockchain-mohan-venkataraman/?trackingId=zaOT19XDShm5g%2F7O6Oojuw%3D%3D

Jim Sullivan - 221115, 230301 - EVM Dapps on Fabric v2.4 Labs 1, 2

pssig-230301-Jim-Sullivan-Fabric-evm-lab2-hyperledgerfab_SmartContractWrkshop_v5_jjs.pdf

pssig-230301-Jim-Sullivan-Fabric-evm-lab2-hyperledgerfab_SmartContractWrkshop_v5_jjs.pdf file

Sept 23 -  Hyperledger Firefly v1.1 for Web3, Blockchain apps - Nicko Guyer

https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/PSSIG/Recordings+-+2022#Recordings2022-Sept23-HyperledgerFireflyv1.1forWeb3,Blockchainapps-NickoGuyer

Nicko Guyer - Senior Full Stack Engineer - Kaleido

• simplify public and enterprise blockchain development
• connect across public chains
• complete stack to build, scale Web3 applications
• Build apps with Java, Node.js, GO
• create smart contracts with smart contract languages
• Works with Ethereum, Fabric, Corda and other chains
• Open source and Enterprise versions

For faster Web3 and Blockchain development - come see Firefly v1.1 !

Video recording for Hyperledger Firefly v1.1 - 220923

_pssig-220923-firefly-nicko-guyer.mp4

Slide deck for 220923 ( to be uploaded yet )

FireFly Public Sector SIG.pdf

First Street Foundation - climate risk by location

Sara Chadwich > ed@firststreet.org

US Privacy Bill Draft - June 2022

New draft US bill on data privacy

https://www.cov.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/2022/06/draft-released-of-the-bipartisan-american-data-privacy-and-protection-act#layout=card

overview

https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bipartisan_Privacy_Discussion_Draft_Bill_Text54.pdf

To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement.

US Cybersecurity opportunities, threats, programs, policies and strategies

Biden's "big three" are national cyber director Chris Inglis; CISA director Jen Easterly; and Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging tech at the White House's National Security Council.

Easterly broke down their respective turfs in an interview with Axios:

• Neuberger handles the White House's cyber policy agenda.
• Inglis develops strategies to strengthen the larger U.S. cyber ecosystem, including the private and public sectors.
• Easterly concentrates on defending the federal government and private sector from attacks.

Senator Warren new Crypto Bill on Regulations - KYC AML

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/senator-warren-introduces-crypto-bill-171933205.html

Amid this week’s United States Senate hearings about the collapse of FTX, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Roger Marshall today introduced the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, which targets the cryptocurrency industry with a number of proposed regulations that critics are calling authoritarian and unconstitutional.

The proposed bill seeks to place know-your-customer (KYC) requirements on blockchain infrastructure providers and participants operating in the United States, including developers creating software for decentralized networks and even the miners and validators that support such networks.

Warren and Marshall’s bill would direct the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to treat crypto wallet service providers, miners, validators, and other network users as “money service businesses,” per Warren’s statement, and thus require KYC for participants along with a requirement for anti-money laundering (AML) programs.

Jim Mason on Lummis Bill on Digital Assets

Crypto Theft - Digital Wallets, Assets, Risks, Protections, Governance?

Identity - SSI Governance

Identity - SSI security, risks, recovery strategies

Government responsibilities in ID and credentials management

Questions

how to create secure, no risk governance for digital world

how to investigate, try, punish criminals in a digital world

how to recover victim's assets, life in a digital world

Digital Asset Legislation Trends

7/29/2022 

Many countries and states are looking at options to regulate digital assets. In some cases, digital asset legislation is now law. Digital asset legislation may include: cryptocurrencies, stable coins, NFTs ( Non-fungible tokens ) and other forms of digital assets as well as the exchanges, marketplaces, custodians and service providers where they are sold and traded. These bills and laws can have a major impact on how these digital assets are used, valued and traded now and in the future.

Don't miss this session. Bring your questions and ideas

Some of the legislation will review includes: 

• MICA - the Markets in Crypto Assets proposal passed by the European Parliament
• The State of Wyoming Digital Assets Legislation in force since 2019
• the US Lummis-Gillibrand Digital Assets Bill

references

https://www.ropesgray.com/en/newsroom/alerts/2022/06/Lummis-Gillibrand-Digital-Asset-Bill-Key-Takeaways

WE Forum - Great Reset Proposal

who wrote this? how are the KPIs, costs, risks, payoffs agreed to? validated? by who?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/

https://www.weforum.org/great-reset

questions

1. what populations are excluded directly or indirectly from the reset?
2. how are population growth rates helping or hurting the problems we see?
3. if a main driver of most of these problems is lack of a job why aren't we focused on building economies vs aid?
4. diversity is great —  except when it comes to core values
   1. what populations have high diversity in core social values and responsibilities are successful specifically now?
   2. what populations were more successful in the past and why?  what were the differences in core values then?
5. billionaires don't create social unrest despite the media hype, people who commit or encourage violence do?
   1. who is responsible directly for social unrest? 
   2. where is the accountability by individuals for the unrest they encourage or crimes they execute?
   3. how do our institutions, laws and administration foster higher social unrest today?

CBDC report 211206

~:text=CBDC%2Dreport%2D211206%2Dindia%2D1638801423445.pdf%20report

national-strategy-on-blockchain-india-2021-1638548410547.pdf

Kamlesh Nagware

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/prasannalohar_national-strategy-on-blockchain-ugcPost-6872507676618821632-zsf6

Hi Kamlesh

I think the National Strategy on Blockchain report you published on Linkedin is excellent work and provides a good framework to create solutions in government leveraging blockchain.

I lead the Hyperledger Public Sector group. It would be great if you could do a presentation to our group early next year.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

Jim

Sara Chadwick, Marketing Head, First Resources Foundation, Climate risk factor analysis

https://firststreet.org/team/sara-chadwick/

https://firststreet.org/risk-factor/

Hi Sara

I just saw your new tool on risk factor analysis for climate change by location. A truly valuable tool for the world we live in now with climate change.

I'm the leader of the Hyperledger Public Sector Group. I can't think of a more valuable presentation than reviewing your tool for climate change risks analysis for our membership.

Please let me know if we can schedule a presentation to our group on a Friday, 10 am EDT. We meet every other week.

Thanks

Jim

Top 10 papers on public sector topics to review for speakers

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=2011231&netorjrnl=jrnl

Dr Milly Perry - DAO Policy and Governance 

Hi,

Jim Mason with Hyperledger Public Sector SIG. 

With your expertise on Policy and Governance, I would love it if you could present to our group. As the technologies improve and solutions grow in DLT, the concepts of Good Policies and Governance are more important than ever in managing risk and providing visibility.

Would you be open to doing a presentation to our group?

Thanks

Jim

ATARC: Blockchain technology for voting in elections can deliver benefits

The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) provides professional development and collaborative forums for Federal government, academia and industry to identify, discuss and resolve emerging technology challenges.

The Blockchain Working Group has recently completed a White Paper which explores how using blockchain technology for voting in elections can benefit the United States by creating more efficient, transparent processes which increase both voter participation and overall trust in government.

Don't miss this great session covering a voting solution using blockchain

The Working Group team:

• Michael Bailey, Assistant Professor of IT, Utah State University
• Lindsay Ellsworth, ATARC Blockchain Working Group Advisor Chair
• Bill Rockwood, ATARC Blockchain Working Group Government Chair, Rep. Soto
• Frederic de Valux, VP,  Prometheus Computing
• Jim St. Clair, Head, Linux Public Healthcare Foundation
• Eric Burger, Senior Technology Advisor, Georgetown University
• Nicole Mandes, Working Group Project Manager, ATARC

Jim Mason - Blockchain Practice Leader 

NFT - Open Discussion on Non-Fungible Tokens

As a member of the European Blockchain Observatory & Forum, Jim participated in NFT research.

The session will cover some basic concepts and use cases for NFTs.

We'll also examine legal support for NFTs in different jurisdictions.

Bring your questions and ideas to share with everyone

Liz Tanner - RI Secretary of Commerce

Better government is built on digital government. A core foundation for digital government is digital identity and credentials.

Liz Tanner, Director of the Department of Business Regulation in Rhode Island, leads the drive for efficiency and digital government for the State.

Liz's session will cover

• How we got here in State government
• How she found digital government opportunities and strategies in the State
• The POC project she led delivering identities and credentials for individuals and businesses driving efficiencies and building trust
• The enabling technologies: Self-Sovereign Identity, Hyperledger Indy & Aries
• The roadmap and next steps

Key takeaways include: understanding a digital government transformation process, Self-Sovereign Identity and blockchain value add

pssig-210702-Bio - Elizabeth M Tanner.pdf

references

https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=f598fe1d-5d7f-4316-8233-8892b9ac301a

blockchain, identity bills, laws

NFT reg

EU laws, GDPR, data privacy act

Liechtenstein fin regs now

RI infomercial on Digital Government

Liz Tanner's department wins award for Economic Development

https://www.golocalprov.com/business/rhode-island-commerce-honored-as-economic-development-agency-of-the-year

The Rhode Island Executive Office of Commerce was honored as the Economic Development Agency of the Year at the 2022 Go Global Awards.

The Go Global Awards celebrate the companies and organizations that are driving the global economy forward through innovations, technologies and strategies. The Awards are presented by the International Trade Council, a non-profit organization comprised of more than 418 professional organizations in 176 countries that provides services to government trade agencies, chambers of commerce, export councils, business associations and corporations from around the world.

“This honor is a testament to our team’s ongoing commitment to working collaboratively with economic leaders across the country and around the world in order to identify and execute strategies that improve Rhode Island’s business community,” said Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Liz Tanner, who also provided a keynote address during the event. “We thank the International Trade Council and the Estonian Business & Innovation Agency for hosting this successful event, and we look forward to continuing to make Rhode Island an easier place to launch and expand businesses.”

Rhode Island Commerce’s honor as the top Economic Development Agency was one of six “major awards” presented in 2022. Others major awards included:

- Leadership in International Trade and Investment Promotion – Germany Trade and Invest
- Economic Development Agency of the Year – The Rhode Island Executive Office of Commerce
- Investment Promotion Agency of the Year – Business Sweden
- Most Creative Investment Promotion Marketing of the Year – Enterprise Estonia, Invest in Estonia
- Trade Agency of the Year (Emeritus) – Enterprise Estonia, Trade with Estonia
- International Business Diplomacy Award – MFA of Estonia, Business Diplomacy Division

Dr Thomas Dunser - Liechtenstein Office of Financial Innovation

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-thomas-d%C3%BCnser-192ab7198_defi-and-financial-market-regulation-activity-6977960935407685632-qVCD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Article on Defi vs Cefi

Here are our key findings:
- Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is an important financial market development with high innovation potential.

- The fundamental conditions and mechanisms of DeFi are entirely different from Centralised Finance (CeFi), which provide a new view and a new paradigm.

- Subordinating DeFi applications to financial market regulation designed for CeFi is neither sensible nor practical. DeFi applications must be clearly distinguished from the traditional financial market and the scope of its application.

- It is not sensible to regulate the technology nor the protocol layers.
It is to be expected that even in ideal DeFi-applications, intermediaries will be present to support and service users. DeFi regulation should primarily focus on regulating those service providers.

DeFi-regulation triggers two fundamental paradigm shifts in policy:
- We must improve the education of retail-investors about DeFi — and CeFi.
- We should change the paradigm from a 100% investors protection to a system of choice for the investors, whether they want to use the services of a regulated entity, a non-regulated entity or directly use a protocol.

New article about Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Financial Market Regulation.

https://medium.com/@tduenser/defi-and-financial-market-regulation-4ec8843619b8

Future of Digital Money and Blockchain Act 2020

https://gbaglobal.org/blog/2021/12/28/author-of-liechtenstein-blockchain-act-speaks-to-government-leaders-in-washington/

https://impuls-liechtenstein.li/en/innovations-framework

IBM Good Health Pass sessions

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IBM Digital Health Pass webinar

trust and transparency focus

https://mediacenter.ibm.com/media/IBM+Digital+Health+Pass+Overview+Webinar/1_7r0jmmdl

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Washington session

How Hyperledger Powers the IBM Digital Health Pass

IBM has been leading the global movement towards secure, privacy preserving health credential management, most recently to
enable the safe return to work, travel and entertainment with IBM Digital Health Pass. Building on global standards and Hyperledger Fabric, Digital Health Pass is being used by Governments and the Private Sector across a number of countries worldwide.

Anthony Day (Blockchain Leader, UK&I) and Paco Curbera (Lead Architect, Digital Health Pass) will share their experience from working with IBM's clients worldwide, and talk you through the fundamental architecture of Digital Health Pass.

This talk will be followed by a Q&A session where the wider group will get to share its thoughts and ideas on this important topic.

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Network Groups Session

Good Health Pass and Interoperable Digital Health Pass Systems

Good Health Pass Collaborative ( GHPC ) is an open, inclusive, cross-sector initiative, bringing together leading companies and organizations from the technology, health, and travel sectors. Our members are creating a blueprint for interoperable digital health pass systems and building a safe path to restore international travel and restart the global economy.

The session includes:

* Short Overview of ID2020 organization and digital ID concepts
* Review the collaborative work and the 8 drafting groups.
* Focus on the trust framework and trust registries
* What GHPC needs from the public sector, the need for regulation

Jim St Clair - LFPH

Fostering the world's largest collaborative environment for open source public health

Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) builds, promotes, and sustains open source software to improve global health innovation.

Linux Foundation Public Health - Jim St Clair - Friday Oct 21, 10 am EDT

The Linux Foundation Public Health ( LPFH ) is fostering the world's largest collaborative environment for open source public health. It builds, promotes, and sustains open source software to improve global health innovation.

Find out how open source software and Hyperledger are adding value in the Public Health arena. Jim St Clair is the Executive Director of Linux Foundation Public Health project.  With expertise in both public health solutions and Hyperledger, Jim leads the team on finding opportunities for open source solutions. Don’t miss this meeting to find out what they’ve done and where they are focused now

Jim St.Clair

Jim is the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH which promotes and curates open source software to help public health authorities (PHAs) and other healthcare organizations with an  open source digital health ecosystem. Jim is also contributing to several ISO, HL7 and IEEE Working Groups to develop new standards for decentralized identity, patient data and distributed ledger systems. Jim is a veteran and former naval officer, having served in both active and reserve capacity. 

LFPH - Linux Foundation Public Health

About Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH)

Founded in summer of 2020, the initial focus of LFPH has been helping PHAs deploy an app implementing the Google Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN)  system. 

LF Public Health's mission is to curate and support open source software to help public health authorities (PHAs) and healthcare delivery around the world.

LFPH brought in the Covid Credentials Initiative to take lead on creating interoperable standards for sharing pandemic-related health data.

As the organization grows we are moving into other areas of public health thatcan take advantage of open source innovation.

https://www.lfph.io/webinars/linux-public-health-foundation-open-house-2022/

• LFPH’s first two years,
• our projects and accomplishments,
• our strategic approach for 2022, and
• new projects that are in development.

Jim St.Clair

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOPNL1MSqbCOD51TsphpJqjYzcCfTMmO/edit

Jim is the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH which promotes and curates open source software to help public health authorities (PHAs) and other healthcare organizations with an  open source digital health ecosystem. Jim is also contributing to several ISO, HL7 and IEEE Working Groups to develop new standards for decentralized identity, patient data and distributed ledger systems. Jim is a veteran and former naval officer, having served in both active and reserve capacity.

Dr Albert Lee - Blockchain for DeFi

Alex G. Lee will discuss about the blockchain DeFi platform design and development systematically to help the blockcahin professionals who want to initiate a new DeFi project.

Main Topics:

1. Liquidity Pool & Mining: bonding curves; market makers; yield farming & liquidity aggregation

2. Token Design: token supply & distribution; governance tokens; stablecoins; NFT

3. Blockchain System: interoperability/scalability/privacy/security; layer 1 & 2 systems; money legos/composability; AI for DeFi

4. Risk Management: technical/financial/legal risks

5. Business Models: DEX (margin trading); Money Market (flash loans); Fund; Derivatives (synthetic assets); Insurance; Curations

6. Patents Development

Speaker: Alex G. Lee, Ph.D. J.D., is a CEO of TechIPm. LLC, which is a Boston based consulting firm in emerging technology commercialization and monetization (LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee/)

2022 some EU Public Sector DLT projects report

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajkgrover_blockchain-for-digital-government-an-assessment-ugcPost-7033820778714251264-wHfP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/C4D1FAQE98evIzU0eaw/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/0/1676993522686?e=1677715200&v=beta&t=4diYw8FHid0Sv_DOeoLQDOVX_Z6kKDmv_grtOZkyGqk

The study proposes the following conclusions and recommendations:
 
1. Contrary to how it is often portrayed, blockchain, so far, is neither transformative nor even disruptive for the public sector. We have not observed the creation of new business models, the emergence of a new generation of services nor direct disintermediation of any the public institutions involved in the provision of governmental functions.
 
2. Significant incremental benefits can be realized in some areas through the utilization of blockchain technologies for the provision of public services. The two main groups of benefits related to blockchain are increased security (enhancement of data integrity, immutability and data consistency between organisations) and efficiency gains.
 
3. Blockchain technology can increase reliability of public institutions that use it for record-keeping. Consensus mechanism validates and registers transaction in a consistent way, spotting for any possible errors or counterfeiting attempts. Constantly updated ledger is stored in multiple copies by independent nodes in a peer-to-peer network. Decentralisation is argued to provide higher security and integrity of the records than most of the centralised systems offer.
 
4. Blockchain technology permits both new public service delivery and interaction models, as it can create data consistency within an ecosystem of organisations and actors, beyond the traditional public organisational boundaries. Blockchain provides a way to comply with the Once-Only Principle (OOP). By removing the need for the endless copying of data and artificially connecting different back office systems, it can help span organisational IT silos in the public sector.
 
5. Incompatibility between blockchain-based solutions and existing legal and organisational frameworks is a major barrier to unlocking the transformative potential of blockchain. Hence, the major policy objective should be to increase technological and ecosystem maturity of distributed ledgers. Reducing incompatibility requires not only the adaptation of technology to legacy systems, but also, to a greater extent, a transformation of existing processes, organisations and structures by using the disruptive power of blockchain.
 
6. Finally, the study proposes a framework for potential policy steps to exploit the full potential of blockchain technology across a spectrum of growing technology maturity. The policy agenda should focus on supporting: (i) knowledge sharing between the Member States; (ii) a focused development of new pilot projects; (iii) defining security, privacy, governance and interoperability standards; (iv) the creation of blockchain foundational components; and (v) the creation of dedicated infrastructures for specific use cases of high importance for the EU
 
 
Source: EU

Blockchain for digital government - JRC-EU-2022.pdf link

Blockchain for digital government - JRC-EU-2022.pdf file

Key Concepts

Potential Value Opportunities

Potential Speakers 

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EUBOF reports - 2022

NOTES FROM THE MEETING

Blockchain applications in the healthcare sector report

We received feedback from the EC on the latest version at the end of January. Publication is planned for the beginning of February 2022.

Blockchain Applications in the Energy sector

Draft final version incorporating all inputs and addressing all comments currently under the last review. Publication planned for the beginning of February.

EU Blockchain Ecosystem Developments

We’re working on compiling all of the parts received from different contributors and interviews. The plan is to incorporate all data and information received, and share with the EC and contributors for the first round of review. Draft version of the report is expected to be shared in February.

DeFi report update

We received more contributions and some sections are still under development. The EC read the first version of the report and requested a list of the main DeFi market players and a breakdown of the difference between centralised and decentralised financial services. This was addressed in the first version, but it will be expanded in the second version of the report. Publication is planned for the end of February.

Nina kindly shared an overview of the institutional DeFi actors here.

Discussion on blockchain skills

We will share the final deliverable with you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, this is much appreciated!

Tim Weingaertner shared the event “International Blockchain Forum Rotkreuz 2022 – Topic “Education”, happening tomorrow 3 February 2022 – hybrid event – free participation where the future of blockchain education will be discussed. More details at https://ibfr.ch/

Invitation to speak at the 1st International DAO Legal Structure Workshop on 10 March

We received an invitation from António Manuel Lemos Garcia Rolo for the workshop gathering diverse representatives and members of DAOs. If you are involved with a DAO that you would like to present at the event, please see the document attached. Each speaker would present their DAO and describe their project, governance and membership model, legal challenges and ways to address them in around 20min. If you are interested, please write directly to António at antoniogarciarolo@fd.ulisboa.pt.

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Domains of Identity Highlights - Kaliya the Identity Woman

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Speaker Invites

Hi Silvan

I've been following your posts and work. I'd love to have you do a presentation on ZZZZ based on your ideas and content. I can run that session in the Hyperledger Public Sector group and invite all the key Hyperledger meetup groups as well since the session is virtual over Zoom.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

Hi Mohan

Hi Mohan

You're article on ESG and Blockchain is a perfect foundational article on the topic. Bad news for you though. When you write something really good and useful someone like me comes along to harass you into doing a presentation to the Hyperledger Public Sector Group and the virtual Hyperledger Meetup groups on the topic. Let me know if I've put enough pressure on you to be a speaker ? If not I can do more ... :-).  

I think we could get a very strong audience if I promote it 4 weeks in advance.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

JIm

SIG Planning Calls

call.240128

Here is the link to the supply chain eBook for 2023:

https://www.hyperledger.org/hyperledger-supply-chain-finance-ebook-2023

sig activities

> new topic bloc

add meetings to virtual meetup groups WHEN hyperledger part of session

cross sig notifications ??? for some meetings yes

There’s a doc on the wiki with guidelines and recommendations for hosting Zoom calls: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/HYP/Managing+Zoom+Meetings

https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/hyperledger-media-entertainment-sig/

Hi Brett
Heard you're covering AI in the Hyperledger SIG call. We are also covering AI around the legislation in the US and EU with a focus on how DLT can address some of the AI challenges for different use cases as well as evaluating the legislation.
I'll follow your site here to see what your agenda looks like.
Thanks
JIm

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