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Blockchain for Cities

SustainabilityMarch 2, 2020

Blockchain is considered one of the most disruptive technologies of our time. Numerous cities around the world are launching blockchain initiatives as part of the overall efforts toward shaping the urban future. However, the infancy…

Viewing tech giants as a geopolitical force

DemocracyMarch 2, 2020

BY GREGORY F. TREVERTON & PARI ESFANDIARI First Published in The Hill The rapid ascendance of a handful of tech startups to a giant, powerful independent geopolitical force not only has taken governments unprepared but…

AI Summit 2020

EventsMarch 2, 2020

March 16-17 - Brussels AI has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to how we treat diseases and wage wars. Globally, businesses and governments are focusing on how to…

European Financial Services Conference

EventsMarch 2, 2020

March 19th, 2020 - Brussels, Belgium Now in its 18th consecutive year, the European Financial Services Conference is widely considered as the major event in the Brussels calendar on financial services, annually attracting some 400…

Global Technology Governance Summit

EventsMarch 2, 2020

Policy-makers and business leaders are under increasing pressure to respond to the societal impact of rapid technological advances. Yet, they must do so without restraining entrepreneurship, innovation and growth that are enabled by the Fourth…

Remembering history so not to repeat it

GeoPoliticsJanuary 29, 2020

By: Pari Esfandiari & Gregory Treverton George Santyana said that “those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.” He might have added that remembering your own history is not enough: you also…

The Iran crisis — the US has no…

GeoPoliticsJanuary 13, 2020

By: Pari Esfandiari @ Gregory Treverton War by miscalculation can hardly be ruled out, but for the moment, both the Trump administration and Iran seemed to have decided to lower the temperature of the crisis.…

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

GeoPoliticsJanuary 6, 2020

Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but…