Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication

Miscione, Gianluca; Ziolkowski, Rafael; Zavolokina, Liudmila; Schwabe, Gerhard

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3037853

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“…Blockchain technologies also introduce 'digital scarcity' (Miscione et al 2018). The initial use case for digital scarcity is digital money: digital bills only have value if they cannot be copied.…”

Section: Blockchain Blockchain Platforms and Blockchain Consortiamentioning

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The role of public agencies in blockchain consortia: Learning from the Cardossier

Schwabe¹

2019

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Blockchain technologies enable new forms of data sharing in platforms. This raises questions around how they are jointly developed and managed in blockchain consortia and what role public agencies play in those efforts. Based on an analysis of prior work on data sharing in public-private partnerships and other blockchain projects, we analyze the case of the Cardossier. The Cardossier project and (later) association develops a platform to link the public and private actors in the Swiss car ecosystem. The participating car registration authority has the roles of an actor in interorganizational processes, supplier of data, source of trust, guarantor of data quality, user of data, and incentive for making goods public. We conclude that the public agencies have a very important role in blockchain consortia and propose that they should use this role actively as part of their efforts to create public value.

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Section: Blockchain Blockchain Platforms and Blockchain Consortiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of public agencies in blockchain consortia: Learning from the Cardossier

Schwabe¹

2019

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“…While liquid citizens remain highly distributed in a global network of networks, the data they produce are concentrated in the hands of a few companies. In this global context characterized by the newly released General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), some small states are using (and small stateless cityregionalized nations are claiming) their 'data and technological sovereignty' by employing infrastructures such as blockchain that may require a new interpretation from the regional science perspective (BITS, 2016;Miscione, Ziolkowski, Zavolokina, & Schwabe, 2018;Radziwill, 2018). Given the new pathway by which small states (such as the former Soviet Republic of Estonia) have taken the lead in the EU and worldwide (Kotka, Vargas, & Korjus, 2015;Puura, Silm, & Ahas, 2017;Tammpuu & Masso, 2018), this paper explores the extent to which small stateless city-regionalized nations may follow this techno-political pathway.…”

Section: Literature Review: Seeing Like a City-regional And Techno-pomentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Algorithmic nations’: seeing like a city-regional and techno-political conceptual assemblage

Calzada

2018

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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There are changing dynamics among political regionalization processes and the rescaling of nation-states in Europe. However, updated and timely research remains scant, ambiguous and unable to meet the challenges of data-driven societies and uneven borders. Nations' physical boundaries matter as much as political borders in their pervasive and growing algorithmic, stateless, liquid and metropolitan citizenship patterns. This paper explores these new 'connectographies' from a regional science perspective, introducing the term 'algorithmic nations' as a city-regional and techno-political conceptual assemblage. A case study is presented of the small stateless city-regionalized European nation of the Basque Country through its analytical and transitional lens, locally known as 'Euskal Hiria' (Basque city-region in the Basque language). This paper questions whether the Basque Country could evolve by (1) modifying its governmental logics and (2) merging its three separate devolved administrations (3) while enabling their direct interactions with citizens (4) through blockchain technologies as the small state of Estonia is implementing and employing cutting-edge algorithmic governance frameworks. In doing so, this paper suggests how four driversmetropolitanization, devolution, the right to decide and blockchainmay be respectively invigorating four dynamicsgeoeconomics, geopolitics, geodemocratics and geotechnologicsin this transition towards the algorithmic nations. Ultimately, this paper concludes with an algorithmic nations research and policy agenda decalogue of how these geotechnological changes might determine the future position of small stateless city-regionalized nations in the European Union.

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“…This gap in literature is motivating, not least because the number of blockchain projects is steadily increasing. Hence, this research answers the incumbent call for research on how blockchain systems are governed [6], [7]; not only to improve their well-functioning from an organizational perspective [8], but also to anticipate future inhibitors which may arise and the changes they bring to various domains [9]. Therefore, this research answers the following research questions:…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Blockchains proved to overcome the doublespending problem and, hence, bring rivalry to digital settings [8]. With this characteristic of native authentication of rightfulness [8], blockchain systems became increasingly interesting in domains which use to rely on third parties to provide authentication, such as banks or notaries; a blockchain system, hence, can provide trustworthy data: if entered data is correct, the ledger can guarantee its immutability, at least in prospect.…”

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Examining Gentle Rivalry: Decision-Making in Blockchain Systems

Ziolkowski¹,

Parangi²,

Miscione³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The blockchain comes with the promise of being a disruptive technology with the potential for novel ways of interaction in a wide range of applications. Although scholarly interest in the technology is growing, a broad analysis of blockchain applications from a governance perspective lacks to date. This research pays special attention to the governance of blockchain systems and illustrates core governance decisions on 15 blockchain systems from four application domains. Based on academic literature, semi-structured interviews with representatives from those companies, and content analysis of grey literature, different blockchain governance decisions have been derived and their enactment described. The identification of them enriches the scarce body of knowledge on blockchain systems with a better understanding of how key governance decisions are enacted in practice.

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Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication

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Cited by 21 publications

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The role of public agencies in blockchain consortia: Learning from the Cardossier

The role of public agencies in blockchain consortia: Learning from the Cardossier

‘Algorithmic nations’: seeing like a city-regional and techno-political conceptual assemblage

Examining Gentle Rivalry: Decision-Making in Blockchain Systems

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