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UTBI:
University of Turin
Blockchain InitiativeProf. Guido Boella
Direttore
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Torino
Crisis of municipal welfare system
• Weakened as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, but also of the lack of growth
• Opportunity for enlarging the role of citizens in service provision
• eGovernment action plan 2016-2020:
• “Facilitating digital interaction between administrations and
citizens/ businesses”, centred on citizen engagement: “get involved
in designing/delivering new services: make it together”.
• “User-centricity principles: That digital means are used to empower
citizens and businesses to voice the views, allowing policy makers to collect new ideas, involve citizens more in the creation of public
services and provide better public services'”.
Urban commoning
• urban commons represent a framework-solution to give municipalities the potential to create new forms of welfare exploiting practices of co-creation and co-management of public services
• the Italian Public Regulation on Collaboration for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commonsthat enables agreements (pacts of collaboration) between citizens and urban authorities for the creation of services in urban commons
Internet of money
• Thanks to blockchain technologies on mobile devices daily we will exchange not only chryptocurrencies but also other kinds of programmable entities (tokens)
• With a simple browser for blockchain we will not onlynavigate but also create, own and exchange tokens.
• Exactly like it happens nowadays with multimediainformation on the Web
• Open system like the Web
• Intelligent tokens via smartcontracts
Internet of money for the
sustainability of urban commons
• Using a single wallet/browser blockchain
on mobile devices we will daily exchange
not only chryptocurrencies but also:
• Coupons
• Group buying
• Fidelity points
• Crowdfunding
• Digital collectibles
• Access rights to data
• Sharing rights
• Local currency (sort of)
Blockchain + Territory
Blockchain: Transactional technology
that will enable:
• Internalization of positive
externalities
• Propagation of positive
externalities on the territory
• Tokenization of values that cannot
be exchanged in other ways
About us
• Intersciplinary research group on distributed ledger technologies• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Socio-Economics and Statistics
• Department of Law
• Department of Culture, Politics and Society
• IcxT - ICT and Innovation for the Society and the Territory
Projects: Co-city:
Urban Commoning
• Winner of the first Urban Innovation Action Call of EU
• Experimentation in the next months
COLLABORATION
LEGAL TOOLKIT
ECONOMY
OF COMMONS
Projects: Co-city:
Urban Commoning
• Winner of the first Urban Innovation Action Call of EU• Sustaining commoners creating local financial
instruments:
• Coupons
• Group buying
• Fidelity points
• Crowdfunding
• …
• Single wallet integrating these instruments
• With Comune di Torino
Projects: CO3 - Co-creation, Co-
production and Co-management of
Open Public Services
• New project from January 2019 (H2020 RIA)
• Technological platform based on
• Blockchain
• FirstLife
• Liquid democracy
• Augmented Reality
• With Comune di Torino, Municipality of Athens, Plaine Commune in Paris
Projects: CO3 - Co-creation, Co-
production and Co-management of
Open Public Services
Augmented Commoning Areas
• Small areas, eg an University Campus where different User Experiences and interfaces for Augmented Reality, Liquid Democracy, local Social Networks and geolocatedBlockchain tokens will be tested in order to materialize an Urbanistic view of AR.
Projects: CO3 - Co-creation, Co-
production and Co-management of
Open Public Services
Projects: BLINC - Inclusive Blockchain
for Digital Citizenship
• Migrants have difficulties in managing documents: they change home, don’t have an history, lack of reputation
• Wallet to contain documents recorded on a P2P storage via blockchain
• Web of trust approach: documents signed by wallets of authoritative persons to increase reputation
• Granular privacy to select who can see the documents
Projects: DLT4ALL
• New project from November 2018 (Erasmus+ Knowledge
Alliance)
• address effectively the lack of European entrepreneurs',
students' and investors' understanding of Blockchain and
Distributed Ledger Technologies and their applications
• the project will guide students and entrepreneurs at local,
regional and national level to enrich their scientific know-
how and commercial endeavours on a transnational level,
by providing them with the necessary high-quality
educational materials and training procedures.
Criticalities
• Legal framework: prepaid cards
• Costs of main Ethereum network
• Scalability till Raiden is deployed
• Dissemination costs to create network on the territory
• User experience
• Confusion with chryptocurrencies
• Blockchain Hype: most time blockchain is not needed, just use a distributed database with enchryption
• Blockchain technologies
• Smart contract
• Decentralized applications
• Governance
• Social good
• …
Work with us
http://blockchain.di.unito.it