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An introduction to building a blockchain solution
IBM Blockchain is more than technology. It’s a movement to help you redefine your most important business relationships through trust, transparency and newfound collaboration.
Oracle: Enterprise Blockchain For Dummies®
The Enterprise Blockchain For Dummies is your guide to leveraging blockchain benefits for the enterprise IT infrastructure. Blockchain technology has matured from its beginnings as a vehicle for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
UNCTAD: Harnessing Blockchain for Sustainable Development
In an increasingly digitalized economy and society, the security and accountability of data transactions are critical elements for creating trust and enabling breakthrough innovations in the digital world. In this regard, blockchain technology could be a game-changer, with the potential to revolutionize processes from finance to pharmaceutical industries, from government public services to humanitarian work and development aid.
Intel: Blockchain Technology – Moving Beyond the Hype
The value of blockchain lies in its ability to provide a secure platform for exchange while reducing the cost and complexity of transactions by eliminating the need for intermediaries and third-party verification. Blockchain has the potential to not only transform asset and data exchange, but also change business processes, trade, economic and social systems. Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin*, but that’s a limited example of its potential to transform multiple industries and drive innovation throughout the global economy.
Yale: A Brief Introduction to Blockchain
This presentation talked about the basic meaning of blockchain and how this technology can be used to create distributed ledger. How a distributed ledger may work was also briefly discussed in this presentation.
Stanford: Blockchain for Social Impact
This report is a result of an analysis of 193 organizations, initiatives, and projects that are leveraging blockchain to drive social impact. By mapping and cataloguing the landscape of such blockchain applications, our research captured which applications have already begun to demonstrate proven social impact, which industries and use cases are more or less advanced, and what we should be learning from the hundreds of test cases, pilots, and experiments that are using blockchain for social impact.
Get Ready for Upcoming
Blog Series Launch
You are invited!
We will be launching our “Blockchain Industry Group (BIG) Blog Series” introduction launch – a blog series where we introduce great blockchain companies to our blog readers.
We invite you to share a blog post, for consideration, introducing your company. The blog could discuss the latest about your company, or just be an introduction about who you are and what your company’s vision/mission entails – and/or use cases and technology.
Announcement: BIG is continuously looking for volunteers to help manage, develop, and promote our BIG Mission, Vision, and values: the advancement of blockchain technology and use cases; and, undertake activities for the benefit of their fellow Members and the blockchain community. If interested, please send us a message here.