Hyper Intelligent Automation Spend by Global Enterprises Will Reach USD 4.7 Billion in 2020, Says Zinnov – PR Newswire India

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Zinnov, a leading global management and strategy consulting firm, released the global ratings of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Services Companies, titled, "Zinnov Zones for RPA Services - 2020," today. The study helps enterprise customers understand the evolving market landscape of outsourced RPA services and enables them to make informed decisions in their partner selection for their much needed RPA-led initiatives. The evaluation spanned ~30 major Global RPA Service Providers across their RPA services competency, including industry-specific capabilities.

COVID-19 is serving as an inflection point for digital transformation across industries, with RPA playing a pivotal role in 'flattening the curve.' With enforced lockdowns and consequent shut down of operations across industries, a greater reliance on enabling digital operations has been established. This has led to an enhanced focus on the automation of both customer-facing processes as well as back-end processes that are labor-intensive. RPA has and will continue to play a major role in automating a bulk of these processes, enabling business continuity that will be applicable in the long term.

With the intent of capturing the impact, value, and scalability of this technology, "Zinnov Zones for RPA Services" analyzed the Global RPA market and trends from both the Spenders' and the Service Providers' perspectives. Here are a few insights that have emerged from the study:

Speaking about the study, Sidhant Rastogi, Managing Partner, Zinnov, said, "The value that RPA/Automation can unlock for enterprises on the other side of COVID-19 is gargantuan. This pandemic has forced enterprises to leapfrog their automation journeys as they think beyond the present and future-proof their technology estates. Newer use cases are percolating across industry verticals such as BFSI, Healthcare, Business Process Management (BPM), Retail, etc., and is indicative of the fact that enterprises are channelizing their automation journeys in favor of scaling. This unprecedented growth in this segment has led Service Providers to invest in industry-specific RPA capabilities and platform partnerships to partake in enterprise automation-led transformative journeys."

Zinnov's Global RPA Service Providers Rating evaluates the RPA Service competencies at an overall level, by size, by maturity of RPA offerings, and by business verticals - BFSI, Healthcare, Retail and CPG, Telecom & Media, and Travel & Hospitality.

Service Providers assessedas part of the study include Accenture, Aspire Systems, Birlasoft, Brillio, Bristlecone, Capgemini, Cigniti, Cybage, Cyient, Genpact, Happiest Minds, HCL, IBM, Infogain, ITC Infotech, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Mphasis, NIIT Technologies, Persistent Systems, Prodapt, R Systems, Sonata Software, TCS, Tech Mahindra, UST Global, Virtusa, Wipro, Yash Technologies, Zensar.

About Zinnov Zones

Zinnov Zones is an annual rating published by Zinnov which rates global Service Providers based on their competencies, capabilities, and market success. Since 2009, Zinnov Zones (previously known as GSPR - Global Service Provider Ratings) has become one of the most trusted studies globally, for both enterprises and Service Providers to better understand the vendor ecosystem across multiple domains, such as Digital Transformation, ER&D services, IoT, RPA, and Media & Entertainment.

About Zinnov

Founded in 2002, Zinnov is a leading global management and strategy consulting firm, with presence in Santa Clara, Houston, Bangalore, Gurgaon, and Paris. Over the past 18 years, Zinnov has successfully consulted with over 250+ Fortune 500 enterprises and technology companies to develop actionable insights that help them create value - across dimensions of both revenue and optimization. Zinnov has core expertise in Product Engineering, Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Outsourcing Advisory.

With their team of experienced consultants, subject matter experts, and research professionals, Zinnov serves clients from across multiple industry verticals including Enterprise Software, BFSI, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, and Telecom in the US, Europe, Japan, and India.

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Automation is advancing in federal acquisition – FCW.com

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Federal agencies are evolving from leveraging rote robotic processing bots in their acquisition operations toward more complex artificial intelligence processes to inject even more efficiencies into contracting.

"We do have seeds of true AI sprouting" for federal acquisition applications, Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi, director of the Acquisitions Centers of Excellence in the General Services Administration said during a Defense One June 3 virtual event on automation in acquisition.

While robotic process automation (RPA) bots that handle rote, repetitive chores and free up humans for other work are increasingly common, AI is more complicated, according to Ghaffari-Tabrizi.

GSA uses a bot to track, find and change Section 508 disability clauses in contracts to ensure compliance, and that work is more advanced than just rote processing he said. That review, he said, takes "some degree of intelligence," but the output is always reviewed by humans to ensure accuracy.

While RPA bots can be implemented relatively quickly based on automating established processes, AI takes more time and expertise because it forges new paths in processes and data, by finding new ways to traverse both, said Michelle McNellis, who is also a director of acquisitions at GSA.

GSA has been at the forefront of implanting bots, with dozens automatically performing repetitive electronic processes, such as automating the work associated with processing offers under the Federal Acquisition Service's Multiple Award Schedules as well as an invoice notification bot.

It's also using bots for its FASt Lane, eOffer and eMod processes, said Ghaffari-Tabrizi. FASt Lane is the agency's program to accelerate how IT contractors get new products onto its buying schedules, while eOffer/eMod allow vendors to submit modifications to their contracts.

Other federal agencies looking to harness similar RPA capabilities, said McNellis, should move deliberately, getting input from all agency operations, including finance, IT, acquisition and management. Legal issues and IT capabilities need to be addressed before moving ahead with either AI or RPA efforts, she said.

About the Author

Mark Rockwell is a senior staff writer at FCW, whose beat focuses on acquisition, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy.

Before joining FCW, Rockwell was Washington correspondent for Government Security News, where he covered all aspects of homeland security from IT to detection dogs and border security. Over the last 25 years in Washington as a reporter, editor and correspondent, he has covered an increasingly wide array of high-tech issues for publications like Communications Week, Internet Week, Fiber Optics News, tele.com magazine and Wireless Week.

Rockwell received a Jesse H. Neal Award for his work covering telecommunications issues, and is a graduate of James Madison University.

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Paving the Way to Automated Driving Technologies – MassTransitMag.com

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Developments in Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) are allowing the public transit industry to prepare for a more robust embrace of automated driver technology solutions. ADAS serve as the building blocks for future automated solutions, eventually leading to full autonomous vehicle implementation. However, full automated implementation will require further technology advancements to improve connectivity, agreement on industry standards and acceptance from the general public.

ADAS are electronic systems designed to assist the driver in the process of operating a vehicle, which improves passenger, vehicle and general road safety. These systems utilize cameras, radars and other sensors to execute a variety of functions ranging from detecting objects in blind spots and hazardous road conditions, to providing lane keeping assistance and advanced braking systems. Options for ADAS include assist systems and support of semi-automated functions.

A system that takes control of the vehicle is referred to as an automated system or function, and one that supports the driver in taking the right action is a driver assist system, explained John Wilkerson, senior communications manager for corporate communications, ZF North America (ZF).

For instance, the Mobileye Shield+ ADAS supplied by Rosco Collision Avoidance, Inc., (Rosco) doesnt take control from the driver; instead, the operator takes the necessary steps related to the alert. Mobileyes Shield+ uses a camera-based system to provide forward and side sensing to alert the driver to potential collisions with vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and bicyclists. It also alerts the driver with audio and visual notifications of an impending collision, explains MikeCacic, program manager of collision avoidance systems, Rosco. Other features include, headway monitoring and warning, lane departure warning and speed limit indication, to name a few.

The primary communication with the operator is to achieve safe maneuvering of the vehicle and to safely navigate busy urban environments through the operators awareness of potential vehicle and VRU threats in the path of the moving bus, saidCacic.

ZF produces a variety of ADAS systems which can perform active functions where the system itself can take the necessary actions to mitigate an imminent risk, such as automatic emergency braking that stops the vehicle if the driver is not responding to alerts. Other vehicle motion control systems that can be integrated with ZFs ADAS functions include electric steering, which offer lane keeping when combined with a camera, and advanced braking systems, explains Dan Williams, director, ADAS and autonomy, ZF Commercial Vehicle Division.

ZF systems operate similar to the human principles of see, think and act, Williams said. They utilize sensors such as cameras and radars to see the environment, [and use] central processing units that think by processing the information from the sensors and deciding what actions might need to be taken.

New Flyer is also testing the possibilities of ADAS, however its approach to implementing the technology is a bit different. In May 2019, the company started a partnership with Robotic Research to develop a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Level 4 AV bus as a way for New Flyer to build confidence in the technology, says KirkBurcar, vice president, engineering services, New Flyer. According to SAE International, an SAE Level 4 vehicle performs all driving tasks autonomously while it monitors the environment.

We strongly believe [ADAS] should not be simply bolted on to any existing bus,Burcarsaid. As such, we have gone to great efforts to fully integrate Robotic Research technology into the electrical architecture of the New Flyer bus. The brains of the system are located on the bus and connected to the cloud.

Information from the sensors is relayed to the ADAS controller that interprets the signals and processes the information through automated driving system algorithms, which determine the vehicles trajectory and speed based on an intended predetermined path,Burcarexplains.

Regardless of the functions performed by ADAS, the systems serve as building blocks for future automated solutions.

These ADAS technologies are the foundations for future automation,Cacicsaid As the technologies continue to improve, degrees of automation could be added with proper testing and evaluation, though it may be some time before automation could be applied within the complexities of the transit environment.

Improvements in ADAS technology are already taking place, making some autonomous driving tasks possible, such as advanced braking systems. These improvements include better sensing technology and faster processing and computing speeds, allowing companies like Mobileye, Rosco, New Flyer and ZF to explore more sophisticated functions and higher levels of performance.

For Rosco,Cacicsays advancements in the processing power and artificial intelligence of the microprocessors within Mobileye Shield+ has improved image recognition and low-light detection, creating continuous detection of vehicles and VRUs regardless of the time of day. And in addition to better object detection, the artificial intelligence can provide warnings to pedestrians via external speakers and lights, which are powered by the Mobileye Shield+ onboard the vehicle.

New Flyer has also benefited from increased computing power and processing speeds to allow the vehicles controllers to process more information and respond faster. This is because large amounts of data can be transmitted from the vehicle to or from its surroundings thanks to telematics and cellular signal processing, explainsBurcar, who says further advancements in this technology and information connectivity will help buses better navigate congested routes.

If connected, the vehicle does not have to drive itself all alone,Burcarsaid. It is best if it connects to both infrastructure and other vehicles to make the best decisions of how to maneuver safely through traffic. That connectivity gives the vehicle a better picture of its surroundings and helps to anticipate problems, even with traffic flow.

But before vehicles can achieve true connectivity with one another and their environment,Burcarshares it is prudent to start improving SAE Level 1 and 2 technologies: think basic functions like lane centering and/or adaptive cruise control. Once these basic applications are understood, the information can be applied to the next wave of more advanced ADAS technology.

A whole sensor suite could be installed on a bus including the ADAS controller but still operate at SAE Level 1-2,Burcarsaid. However, all the data of how the driver controlled the bus in various situations could be compared to how the ADAS controller would have controlled the bus to measure the anticipated performance of the ADAS system. This knowledge can then be applied to later ADAS development projects involving SAE Level 3-4.

And finally, improvements in sensor technology have allowed ZF to improve its advanced braking system from being able to identify objects at the vehicle level to being able to identify VRUs and independently braking when necessary. For example, external camera technologies used on city and school buses can better sense pedestrians and warn drivers of potential collisions.

The advancements were talking about today in systems capabilities can definitely assist with the safety and efficiency of the mass transit system through increased penetration of vehicles using ADAS and with connectivity with the infrastructure and other vehicles to further advance Intelligent Transportation Systems, Williams said.

However, implementing higher levels of automation, and eventually widescale autonomous vehicles, presents several challenges, especially for the transit industry which often operates in complicated, urban environments, Williams says.

We are most likely to see autonomous vehicles first in less complicated scenarios such as commercial vehicles on highways, Williams said. In cities, it will begin with vehicles like autonomous shuttles on defined routes at lower speeds.

Ben Englander, CEO, Rosco, echoes Williams caution of adding automation in urban environments, citing concerns of pedestrians not adhering to rules of the street and vehicles behaving unpredictably.

The latest Mobileye Shield+ vision-based sensors and the associated artificial intelligence are becoming more capable to recognize and manage these challenging scenarios, but more work still needs to be done to safely implement automation, Englander said.

While concerns of operating in complex environments are valid,Burcaradds other challenges to implementing further automation include regulations, industry standards and public acceptance of the technology.

We are actively supporting and responding to inquiries from the [U.S. Department of Transportation], [Federal Transit Administration], [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] and others to help lay the groundwork required for policy and regulation to be put in place,Burcarsaid.

Despite these roadblocks one thing is certain: ADAS technology will continue to evolve as companies work towards higher levels of automation.

Advancements in road safety and in autonomy are not a matter of if we can afford them the facts observed from global roads statistics show that we cant afford not to pursue them, Williams said.

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Use these first principles to succeed with robotic process automation In 2020 – ZDNet

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Let's just say that one measure of the hype that surrounds any emerging technology is the amount of new (and largely superfluous) jargon that it generates.

The market for robotic process automation (RPA) has been in hyper-growth for a while now. RPA and its extension into intelligent automation (IA) is an important market because it forms the tip of the spear for broader enterprise automation. We've previously estimated that IA technologies will release $134 billion in labor value by 2022. Meanwhile, the hype surrounding them is incessant, with vendors and pundits racing each other to create new words to describe capabilities. Often, these terms end up muddying the waters and confusing buyers. Lost amid the clamor is rational, pragmatic advice around how to succeed with RPA.

Research from Forrester shows that just 52% of enterprises have progressed their RPA initiatives beyond their first 10 bots. What gives? Just as with any other new enterprise technology, automation is a program that needs to be nurtured. Building your first bot may seem simple, but scaling an organization-wide RPA program is a whole different ball game.

In new research, my colleagueCraig Le Clairand I cover important considerations to keep in mind, whether you are starting out or looking to scale your RPA program. Here are a few of the themes that we uncovered:

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Escaping ‘Pilot Purgatory,’ Scaling Automation Across the Enterprise the Focus of ISG Talk – GlobeNewswire

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STAMFORD, Conn., June 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global automation experts with Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), leading global technology research and advisory firm, will outline five steps for escaping pilot purgatory and scaling automation across the enterprise, at the Automation Anywhere Imagine livestream digital event, June 911.

Andreas Lth and Jeff Augustin, partners, and William Harris, director, ISG Automation, will present Scaling Automation, a session viewable on-demand at 11:30 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time, June 10.

The benefits of automation are widely recognized, including dramatic increases in efficiency and productivity and freeing employees from mundane tasks, Lth said. However, many enterprises are stuck in pilot purgatory, with initial, small installations that havent moved beyond entry-level stage. By scaling automation, enterprises benefit from operational improvements and lower costs.

Augustin said 70 percent of companies have implemented some form of robotic process automation (RPA), but only 12 percent have automated 50 or more processes. Common barriers to scaling automation include difficulty translating automation outcomes and ROI to business value; not having enough people in dedicated automation roles, and a lack of understanding of the cognitive automation market and reluctance to apply machine learning to their RPA portfolio, he said.

Organizational challenges pose the most significant long-term barrier to automation adoption, Augustin said. To scale automation, enterprises must put in place an automation strategy; conduct active change management, for the behavioral and operational changes required; build a solid foundation of people, policies and resources across the automation lifecycle; take a rigid approach to conducting automation opportunity assessments, and build an integrated automation platform.

Enterprises that begin their automation journey with RPA installations to automate high-volume, structured and repetitive processes can move on to image recognition, natural language processing, cognitive reasoning and, ultimately, conversational AI, allowing automation technology to hold well-structured conversations. Each step in this process adds efficiencies and frees up the business to be more strategic.

Organizational hurdles can be overcome by using existing metrics to report automations contribution to the business, Harris said. Enterprises should also dedicate full-time resources to gain the expertise to configure and deploy automations at best-practice velocity, and mine data gathered from customer interactions to improve the experience with automation technology.

ISG is a preferred business partner of Automation Anywhere, a global leader in RPA. ISG Automation, a unit of ISG, works with Automation Anywhere clients to expand their use of RPA through ISGs consulting and implementation services. ISG has had a business relationship with Automation Anywhere since 2016 and last year was named Growth Partner of the Year by the RPA company.

The Imagine event is Automation Anywheres RPA and AI experience for customers and partners, offering an opportunity to connect with other organizations along their automation and RPA journeys. To register for the complimentary event, please visit this webpage.

About ISG

ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business partner to more than 700 clients, including more than 75 of the world's top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006, and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300 digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countriesa global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the industrys most comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit http://www.isg-one.com.

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PTC Extends Alliances with Rockwell Automation and Microsoft to Accelerate Value of Digital Transformation for Manufacturers – Business Wire

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) and Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) today announced Factory Insights as a Service, a turnkey cloud solution that enables manufacturers to achieve unprecedented impact, speed, and scale with their digital transformation initiatives. The new offering, unveiled during PTCs Global Partner Summit event at the LiveWorx 2020 digital transformation event, marks a significant advancement to the collaboration among Rockwell Automation, Microsoft, and PTC.

Factory Insights as a Service, powered by technology from PTC, Rockwell Automation, and Microsoft, is delivered in the cloud in a turnkey fashion and supports the industrys most common high-value digital transformation use cases:

Factory Insights as a Service includes many of the key product components of PTC and Rockwell Automations FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, including PTCs industry-leading ThingWorx, Kepware, and Vuforia products, optimized for OT data coming from Rockwell Automations best-in-class automation and information offerings. It leverages Microsofts cloud, industrial IoT, and edge services, including Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge, enabling manufacturers to rapidly connect individual sites and implement projects across their enterprise network. This enables customers to save time and money by reducing the complexity that they typically undertake as part of an industrial internet of things (IIoT) implementation and greater digital transformation effort. Factory Insights as a Service is a perfect on-ramp for manufacturers interested in improving their operations by providing valuable intelligence and insights on operational performance, asset utilization, and workforce efficiency.

Factory Insights as a Service offers our industrial customers a leaner, accelerated approach to digital transformation, said Jim Heppelmann, President and CEO, PTC. The offering reduces reliance on IT and OT resources, and, most importantly, takes a value-first approach that allows manufacturers to focus on initiatives that create business impact at scale.

In todays digital-first environment, manufacturers require solutions that solve complex infrastructure issues, data accessibility challenges, and reduced resources. With Factory Insights as a Service, manufacturers can achieve a 90 percent reduction in development time and cost and as much as 90 percent faster time-to-value for the most critical high-value use cases underpinning industrial digital transformation.

Simplifying and accelerating digital transformation initiatives for our clients is a fundamental driver for our alliances with PTC and Microsoft, said Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation. Factory Insights as a Service builds on the breakthrough capabilities of FactoryTalk InnovationSuite to quickly operationalize some of the most critical use cases improving production, asset, and workforce efficiency, while future-proofing our customers digital transformation roadmap.

We believe in the power of collaborations to help manufacturing companies accelerate the delivery of value to their customers and unlock new business opportunities. By teaming up with PTC and Rockwell Automation to converge IT and OT excellence, we empower businesses to rapidly deploy their relevant use cases at scale from asset, workforce, and production-floor performance to accelerate impact across the global production network, said Jason Zander, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure at Microsoft.

To learn more about Factory Insights as a Service, click here.

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About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)

PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we dont just imagine a better world, we enable it.

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About Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 23,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about how we are bringing The Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit http://www.rockwellautomation.com.

FactoryTalk and InnovationSuite are trademarks of Rockwell Automation, Inc.

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Robotic Process Automation in Healthcare Market 2019 Break Down by Top Companies, Countries, Applications, Challenges, Opportunities and Forecast 2026…

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Tunnel Automation Market Analysis, Demand and Growth Forecast to 2030 – Cole of Duty

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P&S Intelligence published a new research report, titled, Tunnel Automation Market: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast till 2030, Tunnels are passages built to provide the shortest possible routes and reduce traffic up to a large extent by creating special paths. It allows rapid transportation of vehicles, goods, and people but at the expense of higher risks and costs. Automation in the tunnel provides flawless signaling, communication, ventilation, lighting, emergency response, surveillance systems, and many more. Automation helps reduce high risks, costs, human efforts involved in traditional tunneling, and provides maximum safety by creating a faultless environment for smoother transportation. Software simulations of tunnel allow controller functionalities to be tested, optimized, and then applied to the real-world scenario. It helps reduce the time consumed in engineering and lower the costs of expensive testing on the real object.

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The tunnel automation market is highly competitive in nature with the presence of various players. These players are rapidly launching new products to increase their presence among consumers. For instance, in 2019, the AKG Group, Amberg Technologies AG, and Elaborarium SL partnered with Fraunhofer IPM in a joint project for which an innovative multisensor system will be developed for efficient condition monitoring of tunnels.

Some of the key players operating in the global tunnel automation market are Siemens AG, Johnson Controls International plc, ABB Ltd., Sick Ag, Honeywell International Inc., Signify Netherlands B.V., Trane Inc., SWARCO AG, Eaton Corporation, and The Kapsch Group. Others players include PSI Incontrol Sdn Bhd, Agidens International NV, SOCIEDAD IBRICA DE CONSTRUCCIONES ELCTRICAS S.A., Indra Company, Osram GmbH, Advantech Co. Ltd., Codel International Ltd., General Electric Company, Phoenix Contact, and Delta Electronics Inc.

The report provides a country-wise analysis of the tunnel automation market. The major countries covered in the report are the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, South Africa, Turkey, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.

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RelyComply Adds ID R&D’s Passive Facial Liveness to its Automated Compliance Solution – GlobeNewswire

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NEW YORK, June 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ID R&D, the award-winning biometric solutions provider offering AI-based voice, face, and behavioral user authentication and anti-spoofing capabilities, today announced that RelyComply has selected its ISO/IEC 30107-3 compliant passive facial liveness product, IDLive Face, to integrate with their AI-powered Know Your Customer (KYC) offering. IDLive Face detects spoofing attacks when verifying the identity of a new client without adding any extra effort to the onboarding experience.

With a global offering, but an initial focus on Africa, RelyComply uses automation powered by AI to meet the needs of rapidly growing businesses with SaaS-based regtech solutions that are easy to integrate, quick to deploy, and affordable. RelyComply ensures that even small companies have access to modern compliance technologies without sacrificing quality or putting their business at risk. It provides solutions for eKYC, sanctions screening, PEP screening, EDD and transaction monitoring for Anti Money Laundering.

From established multinational banks to emerging fintechs to companies in newly regulated industries, access to accurate and efficient remote onboarding and digital identity verification solutions is essential, said Bradley Smith, Director at RelyComply. Unfortunately, these processes can be incredibly frustrating for users, resulting in increased abandonment and decreased customer satisfaction. ID R&Ds passive liveness solution enables us to reduce risk without adding extra steps or effort for the customer.

ID R&Ds passive approach was the deciding factor for RelyComply. Unlike alternative active liveness detection products, IDLive Face works without requiring users to follow challenge-response instructions such as blinking, turning their heads, repeatedly moving their phones back and forth, or taking a video. The fact that the product uses the same selfie image taken for face recognition matching was another advantage.

Bandwidth in Africa is scarce and expensive for many users. Customers dont want to be using it on taking videos for liveness checks, added Smith. ID R&Ds use of the same image taken for facial recognition results in no incremental traffic to the server.

The ability to accurately detect a spoofing attack with liveness detection is becoming a must-have whenever facial recognition is used for remote authentication and onboarding. Equally important though is the ability to deliver good customer experiences that are convenient and friction-free, said Alexey Khitrov, President and co-founder at ID R&D. Weve worked tirelessly to develop a solution that does both and were thrilled to be part of the RelyComply solution.

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Blockchain in Education Still Largely at ‘Proof of Concept’ Stage, But One Group of Districts Stands Out – Education Week

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Recent developments in technology are changing the labor market, pressuring high schools to document learning faster.

Blockchain could eventually play some role in helping employers and others to verify students educational credentials. But efforts to test blockchains potential role in education verification are still early, according to a recent report released by the American Council on Education.

Government agencies and several large corporations in recent years have closely studied blockchain as a means to safeguard data and transactions.

Efforts in the education field are fledgling. Many initiatives are at the proof-of-concept or pilot stages of testing, according to the ACE report, but an ecosystem approachshows promise in Dallas.

Blockchain refers to distributed, encrypted records of events that are grouped into individual, digitized blocks. After being validated by parties involved with the transaction, the blocks are linked in a chain, forming a secure historical record.

The ACE report is the result of a six-month study on the use of blockchain technology in various areas of education and the labor market, as part of the U.S. Department of Educations Education Blockchain Initiative.

The report explores the potential for blockchain to help people better communicate the skills, experiences, and credentials they have gained in their education.

The report lists several examples of efforts to promote blockchain in education, including the K-12 space.

Among them:

The report highlights the GreenLight credentials project as having the right baseline ingredients for a successful blockchain initiative.

The key to that projects ongoing success, according to ACE, is that it is predicated upon an existing ecosystem of K-12 public schools, employers, area four-year colleges, food banks, and workforce development and public transportation agencies, all of which are focused on student and worker success. Those entities all share complementary data points that compose a learning record, according to the report.

Therefore, ACE recommends an ecosystems first approach to build trust and encourage the adoption of blockchain.

Early blockchain in education pioneers are quickly discovering that preexisting ecosystems, with stakeholders that have already agreed on problems they want to solve together with regard to student and worker success, are a critical resource for blockchain technology to take hold and add value, the report says.

Nonprofit clearinghouse Credential Engine documented 46,209 unique credentials from public and private secondary schools issued in 2019.

The growth in credentials from these education providers creates a challenge in documenting, verifying, and sharing data about whether learning has occurred between stakeholders, according to the report.

Experimenting with blockchain in credentialing can benefit all stakeholders, the ACE report says. Verifiable transcripts and CVs can make it possible to display life experiences that can match the increasing complexities of employer and worker needs.

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The crypto community was rightly aghast at the Bitcoin Will Save Us poster donned by a protester against racial injustice in Dallas last week.

It was a tasteless and inappropriate albeit well-meaning attempt to impose a crypto narrative onto a decidedly non-crypto, and much larger, story.

The United States protests against racial discrimination that erupted after George Floyds tragic killing at the hands of police have also garnered broad support from the crypto community, both on Twitter and likely also on the streets.

And so it should. The industry that has grown up around cryptocurrency has roots in anti-establishment politics, civil liberties and economic justice. It is also a diverse ecosystem of actors: developers, scientists, academics, businesspeople and journalists from around the globe. Crypto has the potential to be a truly multiracial, diverse and multidisciplinary endeavor.

But more importantly, many crypto leaders have expressed support for the ideals behind the Black Lives Matter movement because oppression of, and violence toward, one group among us is, or should be, an affront to us all. It echoes the famous words that Martin Niemoeller penned after the Holocaust: "First they came for the Communists and I did not speak out...

Blockchain technology brings a great deal of promise for the marginalized, the un- and underbanked, and those who have suffered at the hands of institutionalized discrimination, especially in the finance sector.

But just as now is not the time to declare Bitcoin the savior to the situation in which we find ourselves, it is also not the time to claim that blockchain technology is a panacea to all of societys ills.

Blockchain technology has a range of use cases. Some of those are already being implemented. Others are still not fully developed. From financial technology to supply chains, provenance, elections and identity management, distributed ledger technology is a truly disruptive innovation that can drive efficiencies in a number of areas of our lives.

But it cannot reverse centuries of social injustice, it cannot change human attitudes and it cannot resolve all conflicts. It can help humanity do many of these things. But the will to draft change must be of human origin.

Not only is it not the time to proclaim blockchain as the solution to the systemic racism that led to protests and riots in the U.S., but it is also not the time to be trying to squeeze a blockchain narrative into an issue that goes to the heart of humanity itself.

Imposing blockchain-based solutions, for example, on the records of violent incidents that ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been involved in during his career would not have prevented him from killing Floyd. Chauvins history was well established and well documented.

The blockchain movement has yet to fully mature. No doubt it will be at our side as we struggle to right past wrongs and recreate a more just and equitable, and hopefully less violent, world.

As we progress toward the future that blockchain technology can help us create, open finance and sovereignty over our own identities will generate benefits for those whom legacy systems and institutions have failed.

But while blockchain may be a much-needed change agent, the real drivers of change will be society itself. Policymakers may be forced to reckon with the consequences that the immutability properties of a distributed ledger will bring to bear. But they will not listen to a decentralized ledger. They will only listen to their human constituents.

Blockchain can record incidents of police brutality. It cannot prevent them.

Blockchain can record your vote. It cannot vote for you.

And the Floyd family deserves more than a software is eating the world response to the horrendous killing that sparked the protests. After all, we are all oracles of the annals of humankind.

All of us in the blockchain community are proponents of the potential for DLT to solve many problems our economies and societies face. But blockchain cannot solve everything. It certainly cannot save us from ourselves.

Only we can do that.

The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.

Paul de Havilland is a fan of disruptive technology and an active investor in startups. He has experience covering both traditional and emerging asset classes and also pens columns on politics and the development sector. His passions include violin and opera.

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Even though advertising has been around for about as long as commerce has, in todays digital age entirely new problems are popping up that are souring the experience for advertisers, publishers and the public alike. Costs have risen, the handling of consumer data has become an issue and ad fraud is far too common. Now, some innovative blockchain products are trying to address all of this and make advertising simpler, more direct, safer and more profitable all around.

One of the biggest issues that advertisers and publishers struggle with today is profitability. At one time, roughly $0.85 out of every dollar spent on an advertising campaign made it to the publisher. However, over time, more and more middlemen have been taking a cut. Modern advertisements are often bought and sold on exchanges, and these companies invariably skim a bit off the top along with ad agencies, sales houses or anyone else that is involved with a campaign. The added hands and complexities lead to increased waste, and this has led to only about $0.35 making it into the pockets of publishers by the end of the process. On top of all of this, the fact that there are so many moving parts means that it can take advertising creators months to be paid after the contract is fulfilled.

Another big issue within the industry is fraud. Advertising contracts can be falsified, riddled with fine print or simply not fulfilled by one or more parties. This leads to a massive drain on the entire industry and an impressive amount of wasted money. According to a report by IBM, Wasted ad spend owing to fraud alone adds up to USD 51 million every day, or USD 19 billion by the end of 2018. Clearly, advertisers and publishers could save significant amounts of capital and time if contracts could simply be trustless.

On the consumer side of things, there are issues too. Its really no secret that Google and other big technology companies track ad data and even share it within the industry. Regular citizens often dont know what information is being recorded from their interactions with advertisements or who is able to see it. Not to mention that while ordinary people are generating this resource (data) that can then be sold for profit, none of that money ever goes back to consumers. This has led many to feel that the practice is overly exploitative toward customers.

All of this has led to a digital advertising experience that is less than ideal for everyone. Fortunately, people are working hard on solutions to these issues, and theyre leveraging blockchain to do it.

Several different approaches have begun popping up that attempt to address these modern issues with advertising. For example, IBM has partnered with many of the biggest advertising spenders out there and is pushing its IBM Blockchain product as a solution to reduce costs and increase transparency. While it is encouraging to see such big names getting involved, the focus here does seem to be on cutting costs for these big companies with little mention of how it will help the consumer. It is fair to say that if businesses can save money, then that can be transferred down to the customer, but this solution is definitely focused on big industry.

One of the better-known attempts to solve all of the above issues is the Brave project and its Basic Attention Token (BAT). By releasing a proprietary browser the Brave browser the team has made it a priority to balance the needs of users, advertisers and publishers alike. Individual anonymity is maintained, and a cut of the revenue is returned to the people who actually watch the ads. There have been other projects with similar approaches, but they have seen little development or adoption and have as of yet not fulfilled the promises of overcoming these modern advertising hurdles.

One project that is hoping to bring the best solutions to all levels of the ecosystem, and to do so with minimum hassle, is the Smart Advertising Transaction Token (SaTT) created by Atayen. SaTT is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, and through interaction with the official decentralized application, brands can create their own ad campaigns that offer SaTT rewards in exchange for engagement on social media. Influencers and other community members can create posts and get paid automatically according to several performance indicators such as likes, shares or views of the content. Brands are free to come up with their own unique conditions, of course, but smart contracts ensure that once in place, these agreements cannot be broken. Furthermore, payments can be made in near real time as the campaign is running, and there are no middlemen involved to take a cut, only a third-party application called an Oracle that triggers the payment according to the data provided.

Atayen has already partnered to make its SaTT service functional with major social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. It also created a developer program that allows anyone to create custom Oracles and feed data to their smart contracts. This means we could soon see further integration into social media platforms such as TikTok, LinkedIn literally anything. Hopefully, compatibility with the networks that people are already using to push their campaigns will see increased adoption of this new model.

Whether one of the systems outlined above will become the premier model for the future of advertising remains to be seen. Plausibly, new projects will emerge to augment the landscape, and all of these networks could potentially even work in tandem to make the system better for everybody. Its too early to call it, but it sounds like people are pushing the right ideas.

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You Say You Want a Revolution: What Blockchain Can Learn from One Mans Attempt to Save the World – Cointelegraph

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Due to their scale, complexity, interconnectedness, and the persistent lack of information which makes it difficult for us to see all of their facets and implications, wicked problems cast a large shadow on the world.

These include climate change, food security, poverty, politics, economics, healthcare, pandemic flu, nuclear weapons, waste, and many others. How do we even attempt to deal with issues of such epic scope? Throughout human history, weve relied on a combination of technology and social coordination to drive our success as a species. But what technology, and what social structure?

In his groundbreaking book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn originated the phrase paradigm shift to describe the historical progress of science and technology. Major shifts in consensus thinking do not happen easily, as novel ideas that fundamentally challenge the norm are often met with fierce resistance by the keepers of the status quo before they are commonly accepted after further study and discourse. And so it goes.

A key phase of technological or scientific change is the crisis period in which consensus thought or design is unable to deal with anomalies or failures within the current paradigm, thus allowing a new paradigm to gain traction and even take its place. Sometimes, crisis is simply the realization of things as they actually are. The Copernican Revolution, for example, forever changed our understanding of our place in the cosmos.

There are an increasing number of people who believe that cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain data infrastructure will inevitably launch a monetary revolution and catalyze global political and economic change. After all, the cryptocurrency paradigm was forged in the crucible of the 2008 financial crisis with the advent of Bitcoin and the promise of a financial system based on cryptographic proof rather than trust.

However, instead of revolutionary world change we got a decade plus of incredible wealth transfer vastly disproportionate to its actual social impact. Can the crypto economy mature before it repeats the sins of the past and simply becomes a stranger breed of central banking? Will it be co-opted and cannibalized by the establishment?

World-changing for the better requires solving wicked problems, but blockchain technology isnt an island; it will require a commitment to change that is undeniable and irresistible.

A humanitarian technologist from the 20th century who embarked on his own scientific revolution to help steer humanity towards a better future embodies some of the lessons for the blockchain industry. He provides a compelling narrative for an industry seeking to create meaningful systemic change; he developed a unique methodology that could benefit blockchain development and implementation; and yet his story is a cautionary tale for a self-identifying tech revolution which believes in its own inevitability.

Born in 1895, Buckminster Fuller was an inventor, architect, engineer, systems thinker, futurist, and self-proclaimed comprehensive anticipatory design scientist who worked tirelessly over the course of his career to build the systems necessary to relieve human suffering and provide for the basic survival needs of everyone in the world. Wicked problems, indeed. His hope was to set in motion a globally coordinated effort to make the world work for everyone in it within a new technological paradigm which he called a design science revolution.

Technologically we now have four billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. Unbeknownst to them their legacy is being held in probate by general ignorance, fear, selfishness, and a myriad of paralyzing professional, licensing, zoning, building laws and the like, as bureaucratically maintained by the incumbent power structures.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

After a 1927 awakening experience, Fuller fully committed himself to designing alternative systems for meaningful world change using a first principles approach to tackling wicked problems such as resource scarcity, shelter, transportation, and energy poverty. Fuller understood that in order to solve these problems, we must first be able to see them.

Fullers obsession with data and facts, to see things as they really are, pervades his work. From the age of 12 to his death at age 88, he maintained what may be the most documented record of an individuals life which he dubbed the Chronofile. Every letter, reference, and thought painstakingly rendered in an archive of 737 volumes of 300-400 pages each. To Fuller, the devil (and perhaps God) was in the details.

Early in his journey, Fuller realized that much of the conflict throughout human history was rooted in the mismanagement of scarcity. He rejected the economist Thomas Malthuss influential idea that human growth will inevitably exceed the productive capacity of the earth, resulting in atrocities such as war and famine if strict population controls arent implemented.

He was also critical of the enduring strain of Social Darwinism that arose when everyone from business magnates to world leaders misconstrued Darwins original theory of evolution to mean that only the strong will survive, with competition prevailing over cooperation at all turns. Fuller saw both of these world views as false justifications for endless cycles of violence and other zero-sum games.

Fuller saw all this as a fundamental design problem. A thorough reengineering of society with precise knowledge and allocation of the worlds resources could allow us to achieve equilibrium on this pale blue dot and allow us to reclaim our planetary equity an ultimate egalitarian vision of the future.

One of Fullers mental models was to view our planet as an exploratory space vessel with billions of crew members working with limited resources, which he called Starship Earth.

Fuller often used this framework to tackle global concerns around resource allocation and sustainable energy supply. How can we maintain the life support systems of Starship Earth (energy supply, food supply, shelter, etc.) such that no one is excluded? How do we realize a post-scarcity world?

While a full exegesis of Fullers work is beyond the scope of this article, it is important to define his reasoning and methodology and describe some of his artifacts, inventions which were just as much a conduit of ideas as they were functional objects.

A common thread throughout Fullers work is his propensity toward whole systems thinking, which is the holistic analysis of complex systems as an interrelated network of individual components in which the parts cannot be properly analyzed to the exclusion of the whole. Fuller called this way of thinking synergetics. By taking a holistic view, we can better understand how our critical systems actually work and account for any externalities that might otherwise go unnoticed (labor conditions, pollution, etc.). This is a fundamental principle that Fuller used to grasp wicked problems.

A portmanteau of dynamic, maximum, and tension, Fuller used the term dymaxion to identify his various inventions, from housing to transportation. He defined dymaxion as being at the heart of a mission to achieve maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input. This obsessive pursuit of eliminating waste in society, to improve the quality of life for all, was Fullers raison dtre.

Fuller defined ephemeralization as our ability to do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. This has often been compared with Moores law, which states that the processing power of computers doubles roughly every two years as more transistors can be built onto an integrated circuit, thus enabling computers to progressively do more with less.

The Geodesic dome is perhaps Fullers most recognizable invention. The core idea behind a geodesic system is to equally distribute power and tension within a physical system to maintain structural integrity without a central foundation. The geodesic model can be applied beyond physical architecture to fields such as economics, biology, and even global financial networks (more on this later).

TheMontreal Biosphre, formerly the American Pavilion ofExpo 67, by R.Buckminster Fuller, onle Sainte-Hlne,Montreal,Quebec / Eberhard von Nellenburg Creative Commons

World Game comprehensively details that which individual humans must do to realize total success for all and do so within the critical time limit, before humanity passes the point of no return en route to self-extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

In 1969, Fuller kickstarted a globally-coordinated research and development effort he called the World Game. The mission statement was a question:

How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?

An antithesis to the war games played by the worlds militaries in anticipation of armed conflict, the World Game was an effort to tackle the worlds wicked problems by shifting human ingenuity from creating tools of weaponry to tools of livingry.

While he initially undertook the World Game with associates longhand i.e. through laborious phone calls, paperwork, and visits to information clearing houses, Fuller early on realized that such a process would need to be played shorthand, automated with the use of computers. Back when the earliest conception of the Internet was barely a glimpse in ARPAs eye and access to mainframe computers was expensive, Fuller envisioned a world-around, satellite-relayed, and world-integrated computer accounting system for the precise, real-time management of the worlds resources.

One of the profound conclusions of the World Game in the two decades it was played was the necessity of a globally-connected energy grid.

The proposed planetary accounting system would be integrated with the energy network and facilitate a digital currency denominated in kilowatt-hours, a global currency beyond borders tied directly to the productive capacity of the earth rather than the whim of central bankers.

The World Game was intended to be a persistent R&D initiative that would produce the necessary systems for solving wicked problems that incumbent power structures are unable or unwilling to tackle.

So what happened to Fullers design science revolution?

It never happened. Or rather, it has not happened yet.

In his last book, Critical Path, Fuller predicted that the design science revolution to make the world work for everyone in it would be in full effect by 1989 and placed the threshold for effective implementation of planetary accounting at the year 2000.

While Fullers influence can be discerned in areas such as the renewable energy sector, his successors set aside the rhetoric of world-changing revolution and replaced it with the promise of energy efficiency and cost benefits to make it more palatable in the marketplace.

It turns out that saving the world struggles with product-market fit. Sound familiar?

Now, what can the blockchain industry learn from the design science revolution that never came to pass?

The most powerful social systems in the world are held together by a shared story of how things are and how things ought to be: religions, politics, enterprise. Similarly, technology movements are also driven by narrative.

The free and open-source software movement was effective not only because it produced incredible software that contended with the cathedrals of centralized, corporate development but also because it was driven by a shared vision of a more democratic and egalitarian future realized by open access to technology. It gave builders a North Star to guide them in the face of adversity and uncertainty, even if that direction was uncodified.

Over the years, the modern cryptocurrency movement has been driven by a core set of narratives which intend to give the technology meaning. The waxing and waning of these narratives indicate that the industry is still trying to cement its identity and purpose, to find its seat at the global table.

The early years of Bitcoin, for example, were driven by a call to action to End the Fed with the desired result of upending the fiat banking system and the state along with it. This story is quite ambitious and still prevalent amongst the crypto community.

Fuller was there first.

Decades before the discovery of public-key cryptography and earliest experiments in digital cash, Fuller envisioned a complete reengineering of the global economy facilitated by a synchronized accounting system integrated with a global energy network. The US dollar, the global reserve currency since WWII, would be replaced by an energy-backed digital currency system denominated in kilowatt-hours, minutes, and seconds.

Price discovery in the market would be expressed in kilowatt-hours since the universal accounting system could factor in the precise amount of energy (or work) that went into the production of each individual function or item. Fuller believed that such a time-energy world accounting system could do away with unreliable monetary systems subject to the manipulation and whims of the bankers and governments that oversee the central mints. Global finance could be tied intrinsically to production and less susceptible to exploitation and rampant speculation.

Also, every individual in the world would be able to see his or her share of planetary equity through the use of pocket-computer credit cards.

Fuller made it clear that such a system would need to exist outside the constraints of existing power structures. As he writes in Critical Path:

There can be no planetary equity until all the sovereign nations are abolished and we have but one accounting systemthat of the one family of humans aboard Spaceship Earth.

Both Fullers movement and (arguably) the crypto industry have so far failed to gain significant traction. Why?

For the most part, any proposed system of world-change built with eschatological overtones such as that posited by Fuller (and possibly the cypherpunk narrative for Bitcoin) will be met by severe resistance by not only the powers-that-be but also the very people these movements are trying to save.

As Morpheus tells Neo in The Matrix:

You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

There is an incredibly unsettling paradox in world-changing endeavors in that radical propositions can be perceived as too early or ahead of their time when in fact the wicked problems in question are too severe to wait for mainstream adoption. The key question here is this: how do we roll out the systems necessary for handling crises before we find ourselves within the crucible of one (or many)? Its a question that seems more relevant than ever as we live through pandemics, social unrest, and the rise of authoritarianism.

To start, the blockchain industry can adopt the mindset of Fullers World Game: to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone. Not only could the blockchain industry use its considerable resources to advance the World Game or some similar initiative, it could also proceed using Fullers core principles.

From April 1998 to December 1999, financial cryptography advocate and Cypherpunk Robert Hettinga wrote a series of articles that explored how a new form of accounting using a digital bearer transaction settlement protocol (what we would now call a blockchain) could create powerful, decentralized capital markets with a network topology similar to Fullers iconic Geodesic dome. This new era of global, borderless, peer-to-peer financial technology would allow us to not only properly update existing financial instruments for the Internet age but also realize experimental and exotic systems.

While Hettinga was an enthusiastic proponent of this disruptive change to the global financial order, he was wary of the nonsensical products that could arise simply because they were now possible (gold-denominated Burmese opium futures).

Fast forward twenty years and there is no shortage of gold-denominated Burmese opium futures in the blockchain space. Whereas the principle of doing more and more with less and less defines Fullers work, the industry appears to lack clarity on where capital and talent ought to be allocated for the greater good.

The ICO craze of 2017-2018 was an incredible display of wealth transfer (literally billions of dollars) with little-to-no social impact. If the ethos of the World Game were to become a guiding principle for the blockchain industry, then all market participants (the builders, investors, and consumers) would have to stare into the abyss of value generation and come to terms with what stares back.

The framework of triple bottom line accounting (TBL), which factors in not only profits but also environmental and social impact, has been around for decades, yet there still isnt a common protocol which institutions can adopt to properly hold themselves to account.

Blockchain, as a credibly-neutral system for tracking trade, could spur adoption of TBL with the lure of exponential efficiency gains through cryptographically secure and verifiable transaction records, and global value settlement. While this seems relatively benign and non-revolutionary, the future prospect of such a trend would bode well for the global quality of life.

Imagine an open-source version of Fullers Geoscope with a protocol stack consisting of virtual Dymaxion maps, blockchain-based synchronized accounting of corporate and regional supply chains, and machine learning for simulating trends in markets, natural phenomena, and resource management.

Such a device would be a technological Holy Grail that would secure cryptos role within the operating system of humanity, a fundamental tool for solving wicked problems.

Blockchain, in short, could help rebalance the ledger of Spaceship Earth.

When Im working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Animoca Brands is continuing to make operational progress part of its mission to introduce gamification, blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to the worlds of gaming and fitness.

Despite being delisted from the ASX in March, the gaming developer is keen to advance its blockchain-powered strategy and is also considering a fresh listing in an alternative region in the foreseeable future.

Over the past two weeks, Animoca Brands has unveiled the acquisition of US-based gaming company Gamma Innovations, aimed at securing its GammaNow computing engine, a desktop application that harnesses idle processing power to generate Gamma Points, which are then used to acquire in-game rewards.

The move is a timely addition to the companys overarching strategy of fusing traditional gaming elements with new-age blockchain-powered tools capable of transforming how users interact with games.

Gamma recently executed a software license and development agreement with gaming peripherals giant Razer.

As part of the deal, Gamma agreed for its GammaNow engine to be white-labelled and branded as Razer SoftMiner mining software that utilises idle processing power to mine for Ethereum, with Gamma collecting 50% of the value of tokens mined.

According to Animoca Brands, the strategic rationale behind the acquisition has everything to do with the fact that Razer wields direct access to over 60 million gamers worldwide.

The current install base for Gammas software is around 700,000 including 692,000 installs via the RazerSoftMiner platform, plus an additional 15,000 direct downloads of the GammaNow version.

A key feature of Animoca Brands market strategy is to ally itself with, and take significant stakes in, other gaming companies.

Earlier this month, Animoca Brands finalised its 3-year-old agreement withiCandy Interactive (ASX: ICI)for the sale of its mobile games portfolio for around $5 million.

Originally announced in November 2017, the finalised deal means iCandy has acquired 318 mobile casual games from Animoca Brands,through a combination of cash and shares. In total, Animoca Brands has been issued 30.2 million new shares in iCandy, thereby taking its shareholding from 7.9% to 15.5%.

According to both parties, the duo will work closely on an operational level on the acquired game portfolio and to explore other collaboration opportunities in the future.

According to Animoca Brands, one of its primary objectives is to deliver digital property rights to as many as 2.5 billion gamers while creating a new asset class.

In parallel, the company is focusing on tailoring blockchain for gaming and encouraging cryptocurrency adoption.

Blockchain has significant benefits for gamers including lower transaction costs, greater personalisation and the ability to trade virtual items. The end result is games become more immersive, collaborative and competitive, which tends to bode well for long-term sales.

The added set of capabilities, combined with broader benefits related to financial independence, has pushed blockchain into the spotlight for game developers, which means richer functionality in the years to come.

In 2019, Animoca Brands generated $25 million in customer cash receipts and partnered with some of the most respected brands and game developers in the world including Formula 1, MotoGP, Atari, iCandy, Square Enix, Momo Wang and Dapper Labs.

Its series of collaborations and partnerships have helped to increase the number of active monthly users to over 10 million while generating more than $7 million from the sale of various non-fungible tokens and collectables, to be used in-game.

Cash receipts for last year were almost $25 million, compared to $13.5 million the year before, representing an annual growth rate of 84%.

The growing popularity of digital ownership aligned with the growing adoption of blockchain technology has created an ideal environment for game developers seeking to leverage cryptocurrencies, with Animoca Brands keen to be one of the first companies to take advantage of this comparatively unsaturated market.

Underpinning Animoca Brands overarching strategy is the fact that gaming, as an industry, continues to grow and now hauls in as much revenue as comparable entertainment alternatives such as television, movies, music, and books.

According to market research from Statista, around 2.5 billion people can be classified as gamers worldwide with 66% of the US population considered to be a gamer.

Gaming has traditionally been a domain for youngsters, but over the past 20 years, the industry has transformed itself into a mainstream behemoth with a larger market than video and music combined.

The gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing with even the COVID-19 pandemic failing to halt its progress. Research published by DataReportal in April revealed 35% of participants in their study spent more time playing computer or video games since being forced into lockdown conditions.

In other research published by SteamDB, it was revealed that one of the worlds major gaming platforms, Steam, had expanded its user base by 23.7% in March to reach 24.5 million in April an all-time record.

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What is blockchain? Great question.

As the framework for breakthrough cryptocurrency Bitcoin, blockchain first seriously moved into the public lexicon during the crypto markets Q4 2017 mania. The trading price of Bitcoin reached nearly U.S. $20,000 in December of that year. Investors hailed Bitcoin as the best investment of all time. Not even the worlds highest-priced stock, Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares, gave investors a better ROI from IPO to an all-time high.

However, this explains the result of a blockchain application its just something blockchain can do. So what exactly is blockchain? Well answer that question below.

A blockchain is a group of connected blocks.

A block is a diary.

In a diary, later thoughts rely upon the thoughts before it to make sense. Each word in each sentence relies upon the word before it to bring context.

I argued with my friend. I hate my friend. That makes sense.

I hate my friend. Thats still a grammatically correct sentence, but it makes less sense because we dont know why.

my friend. This makes no logical sense.

Think of the block as the diary that makes sense. Later entries in the block are inseparable from the former entries in the block. Like a diary, the block tells a story.

The block is just a story of transactions instead of thoughts. Each new entry (hash) refers to the hashes before it. This creates a unique chain of events that cannot be faked or duplicated.

Hashes in a block translate actions into a long code string. So I argued with my friend. I hate my friend becomes fj9e8aTpA(TV*AR3o0RNB*Aoj.

If your next entry the following day is I made up with my friend, the hash code is not only contingent on you writing I made up with my friend, but also the information I argued with my friend. I hate my friend as well. Lets say that hash turns out to be vn(vr&BENTsM]TVES*M(VT/e9b.

If you try to change a previous entry so the chain reads I argued with her friend. I hate my friend, the first hash will have to change completely. Instead of fj9e8aTpA(TV*AR3o0RNB*Aoj, this generates u3289y@((@VN29b28dn.

When you add the I made up with my friend entry, u3289y@((@VN29b28dn generates a completely new second hash 94V@)%2(V@#B8wvN. Now consider a ledger of 10,000 entries. This is difficult for humans to fake. More importantly, its nearly impossible for computers to keep up with. This protects the legitimacy of a block.

Now imagine that you copied your diary and gave it to 5,000 people. All of these people know that your diary reads I argued with my friend. I hate my friend. I made up with my friend.

If you change your block to read I argued with her friend, 5,000 people have the original copy. They will know you changed something. In the world of blocks, these 5,000 people are 5,000 computers, all checking hashes for any changes. If any of these 5,000 computers find a change, they report it to all the other computers.

This is the structure that gives the block its strength.

If your diary is a block, then all the diaries at your school that is the blockchain.

Fraud-proof record-keeping has implications for everything. Even in its relative infancy, blockchain technology is used in currency transfer, distributed cloud storage, identity authentication, autonomous networking and smart contracts, among many other functions.

Some of the worlds biggest companies are using blockchain tech. Here are just a few of the most prominent:

Other notable companies either using blockchain or researching the technology include Amazon, Facebook, ING Group, Cisco and Tesla.

Bitcoin is just a single function that is built on top of blockchain technology. Take the example of De Beers, the famous diamond company. The process of mining, transporting, cleaning, testing, producing and selling a diamond product is one that stretches over continents and countless people. Imagine the opportunities for fraud.

Now imagine how much more profitable that company might be if it could keep perfect records of its diamonds from the mine to the showroom. The executives in the company must have thought the same thing, as they are planning the implementation of a blockchain ledger to trace cargo from start to finish across the entire diamond industry.

The platform they implemented is called Tracr. Tracr can ideally track the origin of a diamond, verify its authenticity at any point in the supply chain and trace that supply chain back to the mine a diamond came from. Other industry stalwarts have signed onto the pilot, including Diarough, Diacore, Signet Jewelers, Venus Jewel, Rosy Blue, Alrosa and Chow Tai Fook.

It remains to be seen whether De Beers will pass these savings along to its customers once it perfects Tracr.

Although generating a new hash for each transaction on a blockchain would take a ridiculous amount of time to accomplish, a blockchain can technically be hacked. According to research from Cornell University and MIT, there are ways to cheat the blockchain even if it cannot be directly attacked.

For example, Emin Gun Sirer of Cornell, et al. found that he could distract other nodes (computer editors) in a blockchain with useless problems. Techniques like this have allowed hackers to break into what should be anonymous and secure digital wallets and steal cryptocurrency. Coincheck, a crypto exchange based out of Japan, was robbed of $500 million, and thats not the only example of blockchain theft.

Honest actors can fight this kind of fraud through a hard fork. Hard forks basically roll back time to create a previous version of blockchain history where the fraud was never executed. This is a controversial technique, but many currencies have actually implemented scheduled hard forks because of differences of opinion in a technical matter.

There is also the matter of natural consolidation. In a vacuum, a blockchain system is supposed to function as a decentralized network. The 5,000 diaries you passed out to 5,000 computers (nodes) each have equal rights to add a hash to the blockchain or call out fraud. In the real world, some nodes will collect more diaries than others. Studies tell us that 1,000 Bitcoin wallets hold over 40% of the market. If those nodes were successfully attacked, it could bring havoc to the entire market.

In short, there will always be a weakness in human-created projects. Blockchain may be much more difficult to hack than traditional security measures, but not impossible.

The story of blockchain is just beginning. The World Economic Forum predicts that blockchain will store more than 10% of the worlds GDP within 10 years. With implementation increasing across many industries, its only a matter of time before blockchain affects your life indirectly or directly.

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In any nation or continent that is actively growing and expanding, education is found to be a key element of this growth. When we look at Africa and its youth population, it becomes obvious that education cannot be sidelined.

Nevertheless, several challenges have been enumerated in the education sector of Africa. Challenges such as academic theft, insecurity, document forgery, and low enrollments have besieged Africas education. For example, UNICEF stated that just 79% of primary-school-age kids were enrolled in schools in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. Furthermore, statistics from the World Bank indicate that the number of college-age students registered in tertiary institutions is lower than 10%. These numbers highlight the number of problems curtailing the growth of the education sector in Africa.

Partially, the socio-economic status of African families is responsible for some of these issues raised above. On the other hand, the poor setting in place for tracking the educational development of a child is also to blame.

However, this missing gap in tracking an African childs education can be filled by revolutionary technology like blockchain. Blockchain technology is proving increasingly versatile in the current world setting with the technology been applied to many industries and sectors. Just as blockchain has been disrupting the other sectors and is doing so too to the educational sector. The African government can utilize this technology to obtain data about students, analyze the learning techniques, and methodologies been used. As well as track the students on their progression and learning improvement.

How will this be achieved by blockchain technology exactly? Tracking a childs education in Africa has to start from birth, where all their data are obtained and stored on the blockchain with an identifier allocated to each of these children. A system is then set up where this stored information is updated as the child progresses through school accompanied by a progress report. The systems are designed in a way that they are connected with other learning institutions and technologies to create a centrally managed information network. This way, there is a clear picture of the students interest area and growth that can be used to chart the best field where the student can progress.

As interesting as this sound, this blockchain-based solution is not without its own challenges. One key challenge the system is likely to face is capturing details right from birth. This is due to the porous nature of the healthcare system in Africa with poor health infrastructure to properly capture these details.

Notwithstanding, the system can help many African nations eliminate the issue of transition from different stages of learning where the child is lost track of. Additionally, the information obtained can prove useful in determining the best methods of learning and the essential curriculum crucial to the development of the child.

There are instances of similar systems taking place already in countries like Kenya where a certain school has an application that takes students attendance and informs parents of the childs arrival and departure from school. The development of such a solution and more can eventually close the gap in the educational sector in Africa compared to the rest of the world and better equipped the African child for the future.

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U.N. and Federal Reserve experts independently researched central bank digital currencies and found they could effectively compete with the commercial banking system.

Meanwhile, New York State and France have entered into a regulatory agreement and Europol is concerned about the bitcoin privacy wallet Wasabi. Heres the story:

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Demise of Banking?In a new research paper, theFederal Reserve of Philadelphiainvestigated the implications of an account-based CBDCs, focusing on its potential competition with the traditional maturity transformation role of commercial banks, and found it could one day replace commercial banks.A similar conclusion was found by Massimo Buonomo, the U.N.s global blockchain expert, who said digital currencies, particularly CBDCs, could sooneliminate the need for a bank accountaltogether.

Regulatory MattersThe Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is reviewing its regulations around digital bank activitiesand seeking public input,to ensure these regulations continue to evolve with developments in the industry. Meanwhile, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and its French regulatory counterpart will work toease the entry for fintech innovatorsinto their respective markets by syncing their regulatory frameworks. Elsewhere, InterWork Alliance, a 36-member organization including Accenture, IBM, ING, Nasdaq, and Digital Asset launched this week with the aim of creating token standards. (Forbes)

PrivacyEuropol, the European Unions law enforcement agency, saidthings are not looking goodfor tracking potentially criminal transactions, due to the popularity of the privacy-protecting Wasabi Wallet. An internal document shows money is filtering through Wasabi for criminal purposes, with a Europol representative confirming the agency often lacks the tools to decrypt the scrambled transactions. Meanwhile, Bitfinex-incubated DeversiFi claims its re-released decentralized exchange (DEX) is receiving interest from 70 institutions, thanks to aprivacy layer that can protect their trading strategiesfrom rivals. Separately, Signal, an encrypted messaging app, will roll out a feature allowing users to blur people out of pictures. (Decrypt)

Exchanges: Hacks & New AllegationsA German crypto trader is trying toseize nearly 500 bitcoin from Xapo and Indodaxthrough a new lawsuit that accuses the two crypto exchanges of harboring his stolen funds. The suit alleges that the exchanges aided and abetted an unnamed thief and remain in possession of the funds. Meanwhile, Canadian crypto exchange Coinsquare said a former employee stole customer data last year, and potentially made it available to hackers to tarnish the firms reputation,The Blockreports.

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Bitcoin Is a Way to Repair Economic Injustice: Author Isaiah JacksonIsaiah Jackson, founder of KRBE Digital Assets Group and the author of Bitcoin & Black America, thinks thatbitcoin can play a crucial role in addressing economic disparityin black communities. While there are no immediate technological solutions to solving Americas economic and social problems, highlighted by George Floyds murder, bitcoin can make disadvantaged communities more resilient and weaken the existing hegemony.

The Free Market Will Determine Cardanos Fate: IOHKs Charles HoskinsonCharles Hoskinson thinksprice mattersfor the project he founded, Cardano. A higher price for tokens means theres recognition among a broader base of users a project has utility and inherent value, creating certainty and staying power for a project. Ultimately people do what they make money with, Hoskinson said. Token projects that prove to be commercially successful end up inspiring imitations, meaning that the market will basically decide what the standards are.

Weekend reads

Deep Dive Into DeFiMakerDAO, the organization behind the dollar-pegged stablecoin known as DAI, is voting on whether to furtherdiversify the collateral it accepts for loans beyond cryptocurrencies to include real-world assets(RWAs), CoinDesks Ian Allison reports. Specifically, Maker is considering allowing supply chain invoices and musicians future royalty streams as security when it lends out DAI.

If approved, the proposals would pave the way for the first application of DeFi to solve a tangible business problem caused by the coronavirus crisis: freeing up working capital for cash-strapped supply chains. The system would remove banking and credit intermediaries.

The first companies ready to work with Maker on RWAs are ConsoleFreight, a platform for supply chain finance, and Paperchain, which makes musicians royalty payments from Spotify instantly available.

The catch for lenders is that in the event of default, they would have to rely on the flesh-and-blood legal system to enforce their rights to the collateral, rather than an automated smart contract that can do so with on-chain assets. Get thefull story here.

Market intel

Derivatives Suggest Bullish MoodBitcoinderivatives traders are turning bullish,as the put-call open interest ratio, which measures the number of put options open relative to call options, fell to 0.43 on Thursday the lowest since March 24. The put-call ratio can gauge the overall sentiment of traders and the lower ratio dictates that more traders are buying calls (bullish bets) than puts (bearish bets), according to Lennard Neo, head of research at Stack.

The Known UnknownSince late April,bitcoin has traded in a range between roughly $8,500 and $10,200.Predictions for where the currency is heading range from a drop down to $0 to as high as $300,000 within five years. Recently, Bloomberg analysts claimed bitcoin prices could approach $20,000 later this year. A glance at bitcoins price chart since early 2017 shows how far off bitcoin remains from that $20,000 threshold. But it also shows how rapidly the price ran up in 2017. In the volatile bitcoin market, its hard to rule anything out.

Regional GrowthBitcoin trading in India exploded last month, with Paxful and LocalBitcoins totalling nearly $3 million in value transfers in one week alone. (Decrypt)

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Decentralization and What Section 230 Really Means for Freedom of SpeechCoinDesk sat down with New York Law School professor Nadine Strossen and author of the Open Index Protocol Amy James to discuss the fallout from the spat between President Trump and social media giant Twitter. On the docket is: the fairness implications of editorializing on social media, the business models that enable and are empowered by all of this, andhow decentralized protocols can chart an alternative path forward.

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Remember the mysterious Space Corps from EDC Las Vegas at Quantum Valley last year? They have a new single out titled Falling Out Of The Sky. It is nothing short of trance bliss. Yes, we are all about the new music influx right now.

Angelic vocals start off the track, lyrics so sweet you can hear the trance in your soul. Percussion soon enter, and synths back them up. A progressive build up echos and the most melodic of drops happens. Enamor yourselves with the surging synths. It strikes a perfect balance between the high-energy drop and tender breakdown. You will definitely feel like falling out of the sky when you hear it.

Guesses of who the artist might be surfaced through a Reddit post last year. Armin van Buuren, Adam Beyer, i_O, Andrew Rayel all came up. Could it be an alias? Right now, all we have are cryptic tweets, IG posts, and a website. We welcome all answers, as we want to get down to the bottom of this! Though, we can appreciate the mystery and as long as new music like this keeps coming our way. We are here for it.

While we do not know who this artist it, they have appeared on a multitude of A State of Trances. From the 2019 Year Mix to 963, 967, and 958, they even graced Rayels Find Your Harmony Radioshow #203. Surely, it has to be someone they know. If not, we want more from them so we can be in the circle.

It is anyones guess at this point. With only four singles and EPS total that have been released, we eagerly await for more. Join the Space Corps by following the above links. Listen to their latest track below. We think youll like it as much as we do.

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