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How Blockchain Proxy-Voting Improves Shareholder Engagement

We live in an increasingly globalised world. Although some world leaders believe that the future belongs to patriots rather than globalists, technology is making the world an ever more integrated and smaller place. In fact, we can say that globalisation has gone digital. In the 21st century, globalisation is all

What if dogs could talk to humans?

Corporate governance controls how public companies behave. The objective of corporate governance is to ensure that the agent (the management of an organisation) behaves as intended by the principal (the shareholders).

7 Blockchain Challenges

Blockchain is a promising technology. However, it faces numerous challenges that could affect its adoption and deployment across organisations.

7 Blockchain Challenges to be Solved before Large-Scale Deployment

When organisations adopt new technologies, the context of that technology plays an important role. How people deal with the material properties of new technology is informed by their previous experience of using or not using similar technologies in the past. Since blockchain is still a new technology, how organisations adopt

The Database of Tomorrow: The Self-Driving, Autonomous Database

This article is sponsored by Oracle – redefining data management with the world’s first autonomous database. In the coming years, the amount of data we create worldwide will grow to 175 zettabytes of data per year by 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018. Over half of this data will

The Database of Tomorrow

The organisation of tomorrow is a data organisation, but to prepare for tomorrow, an organisation needs to take action today. The organisation of today can already benefit from the database of tomorrow: the autonomous database.

How Blockchain Could Contribute to Ending Poverty in All Its Forms

Technological advancements have reduced global poverty significantly in the past 100 years. Many people have been able to leave poverty due to this. However, more than 1.3 billion people still live in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as having less than $1.25 to spend every day. There

Can blockchain end poverty?

Technological advancements have reduced global poverty significantly in the past 100 years. Many people have been able to leave poverty due to this.

Algorithms are Black Boxes

Algorithms are a set of (complex) instructions or rules that a computer needs to follow when solving a specific problem. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is a collection of algorithms working together to enable machines to replicate human behaviour.

A Distributed Future: Where Blockchain Technology Meets Organisation Design and Decision-making

Blockchain technology records and forever maintains data that cannot be changed. It also involves ‘smart contracts’ and consensus mechanisms that govern processes of automation, as well as the development, evaluation and execution of decisions. Blockchain technology has the potential to transform organisation design due to its decentralised and distributed characteristics.

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