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Rob Hitchens, a Blockchain Advisor based in Canada participates in Risk Roundup to discuss the Need for Blockchain Technical Standards.
Need for Blockchain Technical Standards
Blockchain technology– that uses cryptography and a distributed messaging protocol to create shared ledgers among counterparties– brings transformative potential and benefits to nations and all its components: governments, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA).
While this emerging digital operating system is being hailed as one of the most revolutionary and disruptive technological advances of today, it still faces many complex technical challenges that need to be addressed before blockchain is accepted globally. It is therefore important that nations, individually and collectively research, review, rate and report the existing and emerging blockchain technology complexities.
Evaluating Blockchain Technical Challenges
As we evaluate the growing technical concerns individually and collectively—it will help us understand whether we have reached a stage where we can re-build our NGIOA systems effectively using blockchain technology—or whether there are any blockchain technical issues that still need to be resolved before we can move towards re-defining and re-designing systems using blockchain.
The time is now to discuss the Need for Blockchain Technical Standards!
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About the Guest
Rob Hitchens is a Blockchain Advisor based in Canada.
About the Host of Risk Roundup
Jayshree Pandya (née Bhatt), Founder and CEO of Risk Group LLC, is a scientist, a visionary, a futurist, an expert in disruptive technologies, and a globally recognized strategic security risk intelligence expert with decades of experience in science and technology, technology trends, digital disruption, strategic security risks, and national preparedness.
Her doctorate work focused on hydrogen production by Halobacterium halobium, for which she received India’s National Young Scientist Award in Biochemistry. Her publications on this work have been cited in several books, journals, and reports published by governments, including a report from the United States Department of Energy (Review of Non-conventional Bioreactor technology by C, E Turick and M.E Mcllwain Prepared for the US Dept of Energy. Published September 1993). Her work on anti-cancer drugs also received worldwide attention and, amongst other citations, has been referenced in a report published by the World Health Organization (Review of Non-conventional Bioreactor technology by C, E Turick and M.E Mcllwain Prepared for the US Dept of Energy. Published September 1993).
In 1991, she was invited to come to the United States (under the Scientist Exchange Program) to continue research on hydrogen production and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. In 1992 she researched atherosclerosis at the University of Chicago Medical School. Next, she took a job at Aurotech, a biotech company based in Wisconsin. As in her Ph.D. research, she used microorganisms to develop natural processes and technologies, and some of the projects she worked on were quite promising. While her doctorate and post-doctorate studies gave her the first taste of the power of interdisciplinary research, it also introduced her to the repressive power of institutional silos and inefficiencies. As a result, her physical location wasn’t the only thing that shifted in the 1990s; her focus did as well. Since Microbiology trained her to see changes in tiny organisms coming from natural selection, she began to see similar forces at work in the evolution of individuals as well as entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA), and society in general. It’s all the same basic mechanism. Her career took another turn after she was asked to consider risk management as part of a strategic planning effort by one of her employers. She quickly realized that most risk management is all process, with no actual benefit. That was the beginning of Risk Group, the strategic security risk research organization she founded in 2002, where she is passionately creating and managing cutting-edge security ventures that bring a futurist perspective to nations and all its components to improve innovation capacity and define and design new ideas, innovations, products, and services for security and sustainability.
A globally recognized thought leader and influencer, Jayshree is actively engaged in driving the thought leadership on existing and emerging technologies, technology transformation, and national preparedness. From the National Science Foundation to organizations from across nations, Jayshree is an invited speaker on emerging technologies, technology transformation, digital disruption, strategic security risks, industry risks to country risks. She is the author of the book, The Global Age: NGIOA @ Risk.
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