Finished: 18 March 2020 Collider Event in Edinburgh
Can blockchain technologies redesign the way we transport people and things around cities?
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies have catalysed new thinking around the use of distributed systems to transform the provision of services that help to move people and things through cities. Smart contracts are computational agreements, that run on blockchains which provide a guarantee, so that people and organisations can create these agreements with each other about how things should take place, without the need for a trusted third party such as a lawyer. It has been speculated that these may enable people to easily create trusted agreements with each other about how things happen relatively quickly and cheaply. A utopian view is that this technology might open up the design of public services to a broader population. However, this ideal has yet to materialise. There are many questions to answer such as: - Who creates the smart contracts? And how? And how will they adapt to the messiness of real life?
Presenters:
- Grigorios Fountas (Greg) is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at the Edinburgh Napier University and member of the Transport Research Institute.
- Prof. Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law School
- Ed Stack, from Delic Network https://www.delic.network
Registration will begin from 1.30pm with the event starting at 2pm until 5pm.
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