Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Blockchain and Identity
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Earlier this year, IBM conducted the largest study to date on the state of adoption of blockchain. The study interviewed almost 3,000 C-Suite executives from over 80 countries and 20 industries to learn about their company’s blockchain plans. Survey responses where classified into three groups: explorers, investigators and passives. Explorers are already involved in blockchain…
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A few weeks ago, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released Realizing the Potential of Blockchain, a report by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, authors of Blockchain Revolution which was published in May, 2016, and founders of the recently launched Blockchain Research Institute. “The last few decades brought us the internet of information. We are now…
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In the Fall of 1995, IBM made the decision to embrace the Internet and make it the centerpiece of its strategic directions. As the general manager of the newly formed IBM Internet Division, I spent a lot of time thinking how to best articulate the promise of the Internet. Looking back, I often described that…
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The Economist’s May 6 issue referred to data in its cover as the world’s most valuable resource. Its lead article, – Data is giving rise to a new economy, – called it the fuel of the future. “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change.” …
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A few weeks ago I attended the IBM Blockchain Summit 2017 in New York. The Summit included a number of talks and panels, and – most important, – presentations of concrete blockchain use cases IBM has been working on in a number of areas, including finance, supply chains and healthcare. Such real-world use cases are…
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Communications have played a major role in my work over the past few decades. During this period, I was involved in organizing emerging business opportunities at IBM, including the Internet and Linux. Since retiring from IBM in 2007, I’ve continued my involvement with technology-based initiatives, – AI and blockchain most recently, – through my consulting…
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Last year, a panel of global experts convened by the World Economic Forum selected blockchain as one of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies for 2016, based on its potential to fundamentally change the way economies work. But, how transformative will blockchain turn out to be? How long is the transformation likely to take? And how…
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I recently participated in a Treasury Identity Forum organized by the US Treasury Department in Washington, DC. The Forum focused “on the critical role of legal identity for financial inclusion, economic development, and anti-money laundering/counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) safeguards, and the development of new technology identification/authentication solutions to help achieve these goals.” It brought…
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Why do firms exist? Ronald Coase, – the eminent British economist and University of Chicago professor, – addressed this question in The Nature of the Firm, – a seminal paper published in 1937 which along with other major achievements earned him the 1991 Nobel Prize in economics. Professor Coase explained that, in principle, a firm should…
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In early August, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published two excellent reports: A Blueprint for Digital Identity, – which I wrote about a few weeks ago, – and The future of financial infrastructure: An ambitious look at how blockchain can reshape financial services, – which I’d now like to discuss. “Distributed ledger technology (DLT), more commonly…