Decentralization

One of the hardest hits to a stagnant financial sector was the one made by the blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is changing the way payments are processed on a larger scale. Although most payments are under the authority of centralized financial institutions, blockchain developers are working on creating dApps (decentralized apps) that enable cross-border payments in a straightforward way without unnecessary interference of big finance names. Thanks to the technology of smart contracts, worldwide industries can process payments via blockchain-powered financial applications.

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Due to the rapid development of 5G, Internet of things, AI and other technologies, the number of network devices has increased dramatically. A large number of intelligent devices are distributed in urban transportation, industrial parks,

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Nearly two years ago, we published our first ebook, A Guide to Marketplaces. Towards the end, we touched briefly on emerging marketplace types and included decentralized marketplaces in the mix. At the time, OpenBazaar was still in beta. Since then, we’ve been closely following the evolution of blockchain technology and looking at the potential impact […]

CEO Jonathan Bingham speaks with SD Times reporter Jenna Sargent about the possibilities of the decentralized web. This post originally appeared on SDTimes.com … A few months ago, Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, announced that he was heading up a new project to reshape the way...

Classic arguments for decentralization, augmented by ideas about how participation empowers the poor, motivate the widely used approach in foreign aid called community-driven development (CDD). CDD devolves control over the selection, implementation, and financial management of public goods to communities. Until recently, policy enthusiasm has outstripped the evidence. I synthesize findings from randomized controlled trials and find that CDD effectively delivers public goods and modest economic returns at low cost in difficult environments. There is little evidence, however, that CDD transforms local decision making or empowers the poor in any enduring way. Part of this failure may be because some constraints believed to be important—like insufficient social capital—appear not to bind. Others, like exclusive local institutions, are a problem, although not one that CDD remedies. These results present a conundrum: How much participation is enough to safeguard the gains of such extreme decentralization while minimizing the opportunity costs imposed on poor people's time?

Deb Nicholson is worried about the future of our data.They're being stockpiled by organizations whose ability to protect them is diminishing, but whose ability to keep users from accessing or transporting them is increasing. Bit by bit, these data are being centralized--gathered in large repositories outside users' control and sequestered there when competing products or services can't access or read them.

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Early humans formed a decentralized society, which became gradually more centralized as they improved their life conditions.

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In this contributed article, John Suit, Chief Technology Officer at KODA, Inc., discusses the overall potential of decentralized AI. The future of artificial intelligence will be determined by how much weight we put into collaboration. Fundamentally, collaboration relies on a group of people (or machines) who share their individual knowledge to solve a problem. Decentralized AI is the path forward.

Momenta Insights interviews Dana Farbo, COO of Augmate about the promise of data in Connected Industry as a critical key to problem-solving​. We explore the need for decentralized data storage of device data and the role that blockchain technology can play.

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Microsoft decentralized identity solution gives individuals control of their digital identities using blockchain-based technology to protect privacy.

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Solid developer and inrupt advisor on progress with Berners-Lee's vision of re-decentralising the web.