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The WWW revolutionized information in the 1990's. 10 years later, the Internet became more mature & programmable. We saw the rise of the so called Web2, which brought us social media and e-commerce platforms.

Technological decentralization cannot be put into practice successfully without the appropriate decentralized governance structures supporting it.

The next 10 years of cloud will differ dramatically from the past decade, in ways we couldn't have imagined just a few years ago.The early days of cloud deployed virtualization of standard off

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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?

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.

In its rawest form, a decentralized application is any app that runs on a connected network of compute resources, but our modern notion of decentralized applications (or DApps) is one where apps run on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers, often now under the purview of a blockchain -- so how will these technologies work in practice, when attempting to exchange data for working applications?

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Mark Nadal is one of a growing number of technologists trying to right what they see as the wrongs of the internet by building a new one around decentralization.

RSK is the first open source Smart Contract platform secured by the Bitcoin Network. RSK adds value and expand functionality to the Bitcoin ecosystem by providing smart contracts and greater scalability.

Blockchain technology brings security structures and incentives in line with the way we share information in the 21st century.

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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.

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,

A new report on self-sovereign identity, design principles, and property rights in the developing world.

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.

Blockchain has become very popular and suitable to the Internet of Things (IoT) field due to its nontamperability and decentralization properties. The number of IoT devices and leaders (who own IoT devices) is increased exponentially, and thus, data privacy and security are undoubtedly significant concerns. In this paper, we summarize some issues for the BeeKeeper system, a blockchain-based IoT system, proposed by Zhou et al., and then aim for presenting an improved solution for decentralized data aggregation (DDA) on IoT. Firstly, we formally state the security requirements of DDA. Secondly, we propose our basic DDA system by using secret sharing to improve its efficiency and smart contracts as the computing processors. Moreover, the proposed full-fledged system achieves data sharing (e.g., a leader to access data of others’ devices), which is realized by using local differential privacy and cryptographic primitives such as token-based encryption. Finally, to show the feasibility, we provide some implementations and experiments for the DDA systems.

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Decentralized knowledge is information that is shared and widely distributed, rather than owned by a single source. Learn about the numerous benefits that business’ can gain from this innovative concept.

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 […]

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