Next Stage Digital Economy Centre in the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Vision Speech and Signal Proc CVSSP
Abstract
Data-driven innovation is transforming every sector of our digital economy (DE) into a de-centralised marketplace; accommodation (AirBnb), transportation (Uber), logistics (Deliveroo), user-generated vs. broadcast content in the creative industries (YouTube). We are witnessing an inexorable shift from classical models centred upon monolithic institutions, to a dynamic and decentralised economy in which anyone is a potential producer and consumer. A gig economy, underpinned by digital products and services co-created through shorter-lived, diverse peer-to-peer engagements.
Yet, the platforms that enable this DE are increasingly built on centralised architectures. These are not controlled by society, but by large organisations making commercial decisions far from the social contexts they affect. There is an urgent need to disrupt this relationship, to deliver proper governance that empowers society to take control of the DE and enables people to assert greater agency over the vast centralised silos of data that drive these platforms.
We stand on the cusp of a second wave of DE disruption, driven by bleeding edge data-driven technologies (AI) and secure, distributed data sharing infrastructures such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), in which data is no longer siloed but becomes a fluid, de-centralised commodity shifting power away from tech giants to individuals and de-centralised organisations. This future Decentralised Digital Economy (DDE) enables people and organisations to work together, to trade, and ultimately to trust via frictionless digital interactions free from reliance upon centralised third parties, but often with reliance upon autonomous services.
This shift in agency and power is a game changing opportunity for society to take back control over its digital economy - but we have a limited window of opportunity to get it right. We have already witnessed de-centralisation in the financial sector, where the lack of regulation and clear governance of crypto-currencies has proven a double-edged sword, allowing free exchange of value across the globe, but that is coupled with fraudulent company flotations and currency rates rigged by large mining pools. This is a consequence of technology-driven innovation unchecked by socio-economic insight; a lack of knowledge making policy makers impotent in the face of the tech giants. We are now at the tipping point of similar wide-sweeping disruption across all sectors in the DDE, a transformation that will radically redefine our models of value and how it is created, the ways in which we work, and how we use and extract value from our data.
DECaDE represents a critical and timely opportunity to shape this emerging de-centralised digital economy (DDE), to develop insights that define a new 21st century model of work and value creation in the DDE, and ensure a prosperous, safe and inclusive society for all.
DECaDE is a 60 month centre, comprising 21 people and building upon over 8.6 million pounds of feasibility scale UKRI/EPSRC investments in DLT and Human Data Interaction (HDI) held by the proposing team. DECaDE is a three-way partnership between the Universities of Surrey and Edinburgh, and the Digital Catapult DLT Field Labs. The latter is a full member of the consortium, through which we have co-created this research programme and with whom we will engage in further co-creation of the future DDE through diverse end-users in the public and private sector to support the competitive position of the UK
Yet, the platforms that enable this DE are increasingly built on centralised architectures. These are not controlled by society, but by large organisations making commercial decisions far from the social contexts they affect. There is an urgent need to disrupt this relationship, to deliver proper governance that empowers society to take control of the DE and enables people to assert greater agency over the vast centralised silos of data that drive these platforms.
We stand on the cusp of a second wave of DE disruption, driven by bleeding edge data-driven technologies (AI) and secure, distributed data sharing infrastructures such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), in which data is no longer siloed but becomes a fluid, de-centralised commodity shifting power away from tech giants to individuals and de-centralised organisations. This future Decentralised Digital Economy (DDE) enables people and organisations to work together, to trade, and ultimately to trust via frictionless digital interactions free from reliance upon centralised third parties, but often with reliance upon autonomous services.
This shift in agency and power is a game changing opportunity for society to take back control over its digital economy - but we have a limited window of opportunity to get it right. We have already witnessed de-centralisation in the financial sector, where the lack of regulation and clear governance of crypto-currencies has proven a double-edged sword, allowing free exchange of value across the globe, but that is coupled with fraudulent company flotations and currency rates rigged by large mining pools. This is a consequence of technology-driven innovation unchecked by socio-economic insight; a lack of knowledge making policy makers impotent in the face of the tech giants. We are now at the tipping point of similar wide-sweeping disruption across all sectors in the DDE, a transformation that will radically redefine our models of value and how it is created, the ways in which we work, and how we use and extract value from our data.
DECaDE represents a critical and timely opportunity to shape this emerging de-centralised digital economy (DDE), to develop insights that define a new 21st century model of work and value creation in the DDE, and ensure a prosperous, safe and inclusive society for all.
DECaDE is a 60 month centre, comprising 21 people and building upon over 8.6 million pounds of feasibility scale UKRI/EPSRC investments in DLT and Human Data Interaction (HDI) held by the proposing team. DECaDE is a three-way partnership between the Universities of Surrey and Edinburgh, and the Digital Catapult DLT Field Labs. The latter is a full member of the consortium, through which we have co-created this research programme and with whom we will engage in further co-creation of the future DDE through diverse end-users in the public and private sector to support the competitive position of the UK
Planned Impact
DECaDE will enhance the competitive position of the UK, working with 34 industry and government end-user partners (match investment 4.1M of total match 6.8M) to deliver a prosperous, safe and inclusive digital economy (DE). DECaDE will deliver long-term horizontal impact across all sectors within the DE, as it transitions to a fully decentralised form in which data becomes a fluid, de-centralised commodity, shifting governance back to society and generating radical new opportunities for working and co-creating value. The Digital Catapult (DC) Field Labs are front and centre of DECaDE as the primary mechanism for co-creating this impact, engaging current (and future) end-users to co-create and translate research within a 'living lab'.
TH1 delivers vertical impact across the key creative industries sectors covering content production: TV broadcast via the BBC, Sony; music via Blokur; video streaming via Youtube. Outcomes include new business models and ways to co-create value from creative content via improved IP attribution, facilitating re-use of content through smart contract enabled micropayments and novel models of content ownership (Audience Strategies, Bristows). DECaDE will develop new ways to protect content though digital provenance, working with key actors in different media forms (Adobe: image/video, Dimension and Insurent: 3D assets/4D Video, Coinmode: virtual assets in video games, BBC/National Archives: cultural heritage). A use case in news integrity will be run with BBC News, leveraging Synthesia video rewrite technology to produce test footage. Exploitation will be driven through licensing technology, delivering growth in audience and revenue.
TH2. Working with digital identity platform providers and (TRUU, Consult Hyperion) and NCSC/GCHQ we will map the capabilities and governance structures of self-sovereign ID schemes that utilise DLT and develop policy recommendations around the interplay between UK legislation and self-sovereign identity. TH2 will output novel federated machine learning technology that can leverage de-centralised data to collaboratively build AI models and help users visualize (Wallscope) and extract value from data understanding the legal frameworks to enable that in decentralised form (Bristows). With DC Field Labs we will co-create a data marketplace that enables data to move with fluidity and (controlled) autonomy between creator and provider, co-creating personalised services and compensating the owner (buildingon COMEHERE). This will unlock new economic models for data that will deliver broad impact across all sectors of the DE. Our frameworks will adapt ODI's ongoing work on Data Trusts and embed RRI throughout via Data and AI Ethics workshops at DC Machine Intelligence Garage.
TH3 delivers impact for those working in future gig economy enabled by the DDE; focusing on casual or voluntary sectors (Volunteer Scotland and Oxfam, building on OXCHAIN), and professional services. We will develop technical prototype of a self-sovereign work record, developed alongside UKGov departments (DWP Scottish Government, HMRC) and the SCRIPT centre. Within the Field Labs, work with DWP will study how definitions of the value of work evolve (e.g. toward reputation, or qualification) and relates to the provenance and integrity of a self-sovereign work record. Integration of payment technology from Fintech providers (DCT, Clarion Bond, Thomson) will develop new forms of value exchange that are linked to the individuals work record, and from this we will develop policy recommendations with HMRC for digital taxation in this ecosystem, as well as legal insights into employment law (with Fieldfisher, UCU) in the DDE.
DECaDE will deliver training and capability in DE research; including 9 PhDs and 5 PDRAs with translational opportunities toward full academic posts and for industry fellows to embed within the centre. DE researchers will undertake international exchanges with Blockchain@UBC
TH1 delivers vertical impact across the key creative industries sectors covering content production: TV broadcast via the BBC, Sony; music via Blokur; video streaming via Youtube. Outcomes include new business models and ways to co-create value from creative content via improved IP attribution, facilitating re-use of content through smart contract enabled micropayments and novel models of content ownership (Audience Strategies, Bristows). DECaDE will develop new ways to protect content though digital provenance, working with key actors in different media forms (Adobe: image/video, Dimension and Insurent: 3D assets/4D Video, Coinmode: virtual assets in video games, BBC/National Archives: cultural heritage). A use case in news integrity will be run with BBC News, leveraging Synthesia video rewrite technology to produce test footage. Exploitation will be driven through licensing technology, delivering growth in audience and revenue.
TH2. Working with digital identity platform providers and (TRUU, Consult Hyperion) and NCSC/GCHQ we will map the capabilities and governance structures of self-sovereign ID schemes that utilise DLT and develop policy recommendations around the interplay between UK legislation and self-sovereign identity. TH2 will output novel federated machine learning technology that can leverage de-centralised data to collaboratively build AI models and help users visualize (Wallscope) and extract value from data understanding the legal frameworks to enable that in decentralised form (Bristows). With DC Field Labs we will co-create a data marketplace that enables data to move with fluidity and (controlled) autonomy between creator and provider, co-creating personalised services and compensating the owner (buildingon COMEHERE). This will unlock new economic models for data that will deliver broad impact across all sectors of the DE. Our frameworks will adapt ODI's ongoing work on Data Trusts and embed RRI throughout via Data and AI Ethics workshops at DC Machine Intelligence Garage.
TH3 delivers impact for those working in future gig economy enabled by the DDE; focusing on casual or voluntary sectors (Volunteer Scotland and Oxfam, building on OXCHAIN), and professional services. We will develop technical prototype of a self-sovereign work record, developed alongside UKGov departments (DWP Scottish Government, HMRC) and the SCRIPT centre. Within the Field Labs, work with DWP will study how definitions of the value of work evolve (e.g. toward reputation, or qualification) and relates to the provenance and integrity of a self-sovereign work record. Integration of payment technology from Fintech providers (DCT, Clarion Bond, Thomson) will develop new forms of value exchange that are linked to the individuals work record, and from this we will develop policy recommendations with HMRC for digital taxation in this ecosystem, as well as legal insights into employment law (with Fieldfisher, UCU) in the DDE.
DECaDE will deliver training and capability in DE research; including 9 PhDs and 5 PDRAs with translational opportunities toward full academic posts and for industry fellows to embed within the centre. DE researchers will undertake international exchanges with Blockchain@UBC
Organisations
- University of Surrey (Lead Research Organisation)
- SONY (Collaboration)
- The National Archives (Collaboration)
- Adobe Inc. (Collaboration)
- Protocol Labs Inc. (Collaboration)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Collaboration)
- YouTube (Project Partner)
- Bristows (Project Partner)
- Scottish Enterprise (Project Partner)
- Oxfam International (Project Partner)
- Frontiers Media SA (Project Partner)
- MBITrans Consulting Ltd (Project Partner)
- Sony Semiconductor Europe Ltd (Project Partner)
- Scottish Government (Project Partner)
- Synthesia (Project Partner)
- SuperRational Ltd (Project Partner)
- Insurgent Studios (Project Partner)
- Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (Project Partner)
- Dimension Studios (Project Partner)
- UCF Capital (Project Partner)
- Volunteer Development Scotland (Project Partner)
- Consult Hyperion (Project Partner)
- Clarion Bond Ltd (Project Partner)
- Wallscope (Project Partner)
- National Cyber Security Centre (Project Partner)
- Blokur (Project Partner)
- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Project Partner)
- DCT Innovation Ltd (Project Partner)
- National Archives (Project Partner)
- Audience Strategies Limited (Project Partner)
- University and College Union (Project Partner)
- Edinburgh Science Fdn (to be replaced) (Project Partner)
- Fieldfisher LLP (Project Partner)
- University of British Columbia (Project Partner)
- Truu Ltd (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Streeva Ltd (Project Partner)
- Fintech Worldwide (Project Partner)
- Open Data Institute (Project Partner)
- Coinmode (Project Partner)
Publications
Alsadi M
(2024)
Towards End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting: Adding Verifiability to Established Voting Systems
in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Amstalden M
(2023)
New Zealand Yearbook of International Law - Volume 18, 2020
Andriushchenko M
(2022)
ARIA: Adversarially Robust Image Attribution for Content Provenance
Atabey A
(2023)
How do you solve a problem like Alexa?
in Jusletter-IT
Balan K
(2023)
DECORAIT - DECentralized Opt-in/out Registry for AI Training
Black A
(2023)
VADER: Video Alignment Differencing and Retrieval
Black A
(2021)
VPN: Video Provenance Network for Robust Content Attribution
Description | DECaDE is conducting research to explore the potential of decentralized data-centric technologies (particularly AI and Distributed Ledger Technology) to develop decentralized platforms for the future creative economy. We have developed technical prototypes and studied issues around inclusive design, regulatory/policy issues and business models for a decentralized content marketplaces and studied the potential for these platforms in the future of creative work. Several studies have included examination of NFTs: their opportunities and their shortcomings for the creative economy. We have developed technical and policy insights into the issue of fake new and misinformation, and how decentralized technologies can help mitigate this threat. We have studied supply chains as an archetype for the application of DLTs no only within the creative supply chain context, but also in terms of commodities and cross-border trade. We have studied the role of identity in all of these contexts, and developed prototypes for privacy preserving rights assertion over digital assets in conjunction with the Digital Catapult Field lab. We have disseminated these outcomes through online brochures, videos, webinars, academic publications, talks and policy consultation responses. |
Exploitation Route | We have published extensively in top-tier conferences journals with open access, and have input to several government policy consultations and government workshops. Our outcomes enable practioners to build and study the ramifications of decentralized platforms particularly within the context of the creative industries. DECaDE is currently in only its second year of its five year duration. |
Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
URL | http://www.decade.ac.uk |
Description | DECaDE has been running for just over 2 years (funded for 5) and has focused upon the potential for decentralized platforms to create value particularly in the context of the decentralized creative economy, but more generally across supply chain use cases. To date we have recorded over 30 publication and over 50 formal engagements as outcomes of our work which has focused upon four thematic areas, each of which has generated impact. 1) Content Provenance and Attribution. DECaDE has developed several technical solutions to tracing the provenance of digital assets to mitigate the threat of fake news and misinformation, and to improve creative attribution. These include visual fingerprinting, watermarking and robust visual hashing tehcnologies. Two of these have resulted in patent and commercialization of research. This work has also influenced emerging standards (e.g. C2PA) in this space. 2) Decentralized content trading. DECaDE has engaged in public webinars and discourse on the topic of NFTs and through public engagements probed attitudes and mapped the challenges of this technology as a potential solution to ticketing, creative asset trading and rights representation. Several studies from the design and business model perspective have been published and a technical prototype of a decentralized framework for content rights, ownership and attribution has been developed using Blockchain as an extension of NFT. We have input to the Law Commision review on digital asset ownership including on NFT. 3) Future of creative work. Several design experiments such as Token Gesture have been publicly trialed to study attitudes to decentralized technologies. 4) Identity. We have contributed to government consultations in this space. In collaboration with the Digital Catapult Field Labs we have built a public prototype of a self-sovereign identity system that enables creatives to prove ownership and provenance of their creative work without necessarily revealing their identity. We have also engaged in several supply chain projects in particularly our work with the HMRC and government RFIT project has explored solutions to cross-border trade using DLT. |
First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
Description | All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Blockchain |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://twitter.com/appg_blockchain/status/1407321913345679369?s=20 |
Description | Contribution to APPG session on Government, Democracy and Voting |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://lordchrisholmes.com/blockchain-appg-evidence-meeting-government-democracy-and-voting/ |
Description | Contribution to Consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-to-help-more-people-prove-their-identi... |
Description | Non-fungible tokens and the blockchain |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7038/nonfungible-tokens-nfts-and-the-blockchain/ |
Description | Ownership of Digital assets |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/digital-assets/ |
Description | British Academy funded £69,364.00 for the project Fighting fake news: online disinformation in COVID time's |
Amount | ÂŁ6,936,400 (GBP) |
Organisation | The British Academy |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2021 |
End | 04/2022 |
Description | Future Infrastructure for Retail Remittances (FIRE) |
Amount | ÂŁ280,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2021 |
End | 10/2022 |
Description | Decentralised trading floor for content ownership and rights |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Proposed solution: 1. Fingerprinting- Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Platform- Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3. Law- Provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Business- Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners will be giving their inputs related to business challenges during the course of the project. |
Impact | This project is still going on. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Decentralised trading floor for content ownership and rights |
Organisation | SONY |
Department | Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Proposed solution: 1. Fingerprinting- Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Platform- Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3. Law- Provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Business- Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners will be giving their inputs related to business challenges during the course of the project. |
Impact | This project is still going on. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Decentralized Registry for Content Attribution |
Organisation | Adobe Inc. |
Department | Adobe Research |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Research outcome proposed: 1. Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3.Create provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute by providing technical inputs through out the course of the research. |
Impact | Research is still ongoing. The collaboration is multidisciplinary and the research work trying to solve DLT, AI, Business and legal challenges . |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Decentralized Registry for Content Attribution |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Department | BBC Research & Development |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Research outcome proposed: 1. Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3.Create provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute by providing technical inputs through out the course of the research. |
Impact | Research is still ongoing. The collaboration is multidisciplinary and the research work trying to solve DLT, AI, Business and legal challenges . |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Decentralized Registry for Content Attribution |
Organisation | Protocol Labs Inc. |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Research outcome proposed: 1. Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3.Create provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute by providing technical inputs through out the course of the research. |
Impact | Research is still ongoing. The collaboration is multidisciplinary and the research work trying to solve DLT, AI, Business and legal challenges . |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Decentralized Registry for Content Attribution |
Organisation | SONY |
Department | Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Research outcome proposed: 1. Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3.Create provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute by providing technical inputs through out the course of the research. |
Impact | Research is still ongoing. The collaboration is multidisciplinary and the research work trying to solve DLT, AI, Business and legal challenges . |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Decentralized Registry for Content Attribution |
Organisation | The National Archives |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Research outcome proposed: 1. Develop tamper-evident content fingerprinting technologies for tracing images and video. Draw upon partner expertise for audio fingerprinting. Explore tamper visualization. 2. Develop and deploy a DLT prototype across a federation of project partners, for storage and query of provenance information. Compare decentralised tech with a focus on Layer 2 DLT solutions and ZK rollups. Build a technical demonstrator of the platform e.g. for misinformation 3.Create provision of detailed understanding of how civil society fights fake news and the emotional mechanism through which fake news spreads and can be counteracted. 4. Report of the emerging legal landscape around AI and reverse asset lookup considering the privacy and IPR issues raised by a provenance system |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute by providing technical inputs through out the course of the research. |
Impact | Research is still ongoing. The collaboration is multidisciplinary and the research work trying to solve DLT, AI, Business and legal challenges . |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Future of work and content production |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Proposed solution: 1. Design. Prototype an end-to-end workflow model for content production in the gig economy. Prototype technical solutions for location-aware contracting in a creative production. How might design thinking methods support the development of conceptual and early prototypical models that best represent the flow of value across a distributed creative value chain 2. Cyber security/Legal- Study what kinds of identity service and privacy features might be required by participants in a decentralised creative workplace. 3. Technological//Legal- Developing a new legal framework to replicate rights and responsibilities of unions and work councils in the old economy can facilitate for collective action of gig workers without running foul of competition law 4. Business- Study how value could be co-created through the use of decentralised organising tools. |
Collaborator Contribution | Providing technical inputs during the course of the project. |
Impact | This research work still going on. Some of the outcomes are listed in the publication and outcome section. Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPs) of technologies Ticket Designer CityScreen NFT |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Future of work and content production |
Organisation | SONY |
Department | Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Proposed solution: 1. Design. Prototype an end-to-end workflow model for content production in the gig economy. Prototype technical solutions for location-aware contracting in a creative production. How might design thinking methods support the development of conceptual and early prototypical models that best represent the flow of value across a distributed creative value chain 2. Cyber security/Legal- Study what kinds of identity service and privacy features might be required by participants in a decentralised creative workplace. 3. Technological//Legal- Developing a new legal framework to replicate rights and responsibilities of unions and work councils in the old economy can facilitate for collective action of gig workers without running foul of competition law 4. Business- Study how value could be co-created through the use of decentralised organising tools. |
Collaborator Contribution | Providing technical inputs during the course of the project. |
Impact | This research work still going on. Some of the outcomes are listed in the publication and outcome section. Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPs) of technologies Ticket Designer CityScreen NFT |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Identity in Decentralised Creative Economy |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Proposed Solution: 1. Develop a prototype decentralised self-sovereign identity scheme and integrate with decentralised platforms developed for content attribution. Determine the requirements for such schemes and develop the protocols to realise them. 2. Cyber Security. Develop security protocols for issue and use of credentials within a self sovereign identity system and formalise the required security and privacy properties. Verify the protocols against the requirements in the context of trust frameworks, and incorporate them into the prototype identity system. 3. Law. A computational turn in law that turns as much of it as possible into executable code. This will find new forms of governance for those aspects that are difficult to hide, but need new forms of enforcement to stay true to the decentralised nature of the platform and does not replicate hierarchical legal structures unnecessarily 4. Design. Study existing interfaces for platforms that engender trust and decentralised identity. Use service design methods to journey map freelancers experiences through the lenses of cost, risk, effort and friction. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners will be providing technical inputs during the course of the project. |
Impact | This research work is ongoing. Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPs) of technologies- SSI photo credential issuer |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Identity in Decentralised Creative Economy |
Organisation | SONY |
Department | Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Proposed Solution: 1. Develop a prototype decentralised self-sovereign identity scheme and integrate with decentralised platforms developed for content attribution. Determine the requirements for such schemes and develop the protocols to realise them. 2. Cyber Security. Develop security protocols for issue and use of credentials within a self sovereign identity system and formalise the required security and privacy properties. Verify the protocols against the requirements in the context of trust frameworks, and incorporate them into the prototype identity system. 3. Law. A computational turn in law that turns as much of it as possible into executable code. This will find new forms of governance for those aspects that are difficult to hide, but need new forms of enforcement to stay true to the decentralised nature of the platform and does not replicate hierarchical legal structures unnecessarily 4. Design. Study existing interfaces for platforms that engender trust and decentralised identity. Use service design methods to journey map freelancers experiences through the lenses of cost, risk, effort and friction. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners will be providing technical inputs during the course of the project. |
Impact | This research work is ongoing. Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPs) of technologies- SSI photo credential issuer |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | "Blockchain for Supply Chain Management" Undergraduate Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A guest lecture for Trinity College Dublin final year supply chain module. The work created awareness on how blockchain technology/ decentralization could help addressing many challenges faced by firms in otherwise complex supply chain management system. Blockchain technology can be used to create platforms which could provide complete provenance of a product or service, and an auditable trail of data related to the firms offer. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | "Blockchain for Supply chain management" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Create awareness on how blockchain technology/ decentralization could help addressing many challenges faced by firms in otherwise complex supply chain management system. Blockchain technology can be used to create platforms which could provide complete provenance of a product or service, and an auditable trail of data related to the firms offer. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | "Blockchain" - International MSc Guest Lecture Queen Mary London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Guest lecture to international MSc at St Mary's University. Discussed what blockchain is and its applicaitons |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | "Blockchain" half day lecturer and design workshop for Surrey full time MBA students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture introducing theory, method, and application of blockchain. Then a task to design a blockchain based system. MBA group is truly global, with only one UK student in the group. The class came from a range of professions, some still employed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | "I miss you", design performance for Rematerialising the Digital: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, research symposium by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk Speed, C. 8 Feb 2023 "I miss you", design performance for Rematerialising the Digital: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, research symposium by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS) at the University of Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rematerialising-the-digital-an-interdisciplinary-dialogue-tickets-526... |
Description | A Token Gesture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A Token Gesture is an academic research project, led by researchers at the Institute for Design Informatics, part of the UKRI funded DECaDE: Centre for a Decentralised Digital Economy. DECaDE is a collaboration between the Universities of Surrey, Edinburgh and the Digital Catapult. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/ |
Description | ABS Programme: FinTech by Design, Aisan Banking School. University of Edinburgh Business School. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 7th September 2022 ABS Programme: FinTech by Design, Aisan Banking School. University of Edinburgh Business School. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Blockchain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Contribute to evidence session on Blockchain for Government |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Banks Don't You're your Money, They Hold Your Data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. & Vines, J. 12 Oct 2022 Banks Don't You're your Money, They Hold Your Data, SOCIETY 5.0 FESTIVAL, Amsterdam |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://society5festival.com/agenda1/banks-dont-hold-your-money-they-hold-your-data/ |
Description | Behavioural Science for Usable Security |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Half day interdisciplinary workshop on the application of behavioural science to usable security design |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Behavioural-Science-Event-Programme.pdf |
Description | Birgit Altrichter 2022 CADE Conference Presentation: "Content Trading in the Future Decentralized Creative Economy: Exploring Current Weaknesses and Potential Resolutions" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy Conference 2022 aims to provide opportunities for academics and practitioners to share the latest research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://youtu.be/LDfLPMnjlZA |
Description | Blockchain by Design, Instituto Superior TĂ©cnico , University of Lisbon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 12th April 2022 Blockchain by Design, Instituto Superior Técnico , University of Lisbon |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Border Innovation Hub meeting (Cabinet office and Home Office) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Attendance and discussion of future of UK borders. Work from Mike Brookbanks feeds into this group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Can Money Save the World? Beyond Architecture Day 02. Connected Cities? University of the Basque Country |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 9 Nov 2022 Can Money Save the World? Beyond Architecture Day 02. Connected Cities? University of the Basque Country |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Conference presentation: Exploring paradoxes in Distributed Ledger Technologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Conference presentation. The 7th Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE) Conference is an exclusive two-day event, bringing together academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges of the digital economy and present the latest cutting edge research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/appg_blockchain/status/1407321913345679369?s=20 |
Description | Cryptocurrency and electric money |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press piece on cryptocurrency and its impact |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | DECaDE Showcase Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | DECADE Research Showcase took place on 2nd of December 13.00-17.00 (UK/GMT). This was a wonderful opportunity for us to share all the exciting work that has been happening in the field of Decentralised Digital Economy, with particular focus on the Creative Economy with our industry partners and new businesses. Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, Co founder and CEO of Vastari, joined us as our key note speaker and shed some light on the rise of NFTs and their future implications for the decentralised creative economy, and lightning talks were given by our researchers about the future of AI and DLT in creating decentralized platforms for the creative industry. There was also a networking event and a virtual posters sessions to share industry insights over AI, and DLT/Blockchain, and the Digital Economy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Design for Web3, Shopify, Lisbon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. & Elsden, C. 24th May 2022 Design for Web3, Shopify, Lisbon |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Designing from/with/ by data, Invited speaker for Research Libraries UK (RLUK)Digital Shift Forum. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | RLUK's Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences. These monthly seminars include high-profile international speakers, from a wide variety of backgrounds and professions, who are at the forefront of current thinking around the digital shift. They provide time and space for wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary discussions regarding the future of the digital shift, and provide a springboard for cross-sector collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Emotional regulation and institutional maintenance: debunking fake news with emotions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Leading conference for organisational studies. Conference presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://youtu.be/Jl800bJlQUY |
Description | Executive Education - MBA class lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture introducing theory, method, and application of blockchain. Then a task to design a blockchain based system. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Funging the non-fungible: Laying down the law on NFTs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This is a panel discussion chaired by Smita Kheria, University of Edinburgh. The panel includes- Alexandra Giannopoulou (Universiy of Amsterdam); Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex) Sean Thomas (University of York); Burkhard Schafer (The University of Edinburgh). Through this event, we try to answer few important questions related to NFTs such as- what do we buy if we buy an NFT? How does the law think about this new phenomenon? NFTs seem to speak to some deeply felt needs in the artistic community, but can they deliver, or are they at best a fad, at worst a rip off? Can they help struggling artists whose income streams have been depleted through Covid, or can they fuel illegal activities and much more. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://decade.ac.uk/?page_id=560 |
Description | Future of Cyber: e-voting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Webinar on the opportunities and risks of e-voting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.evensi.com/digital-democracy-electronic-voting-opportunities-challenges/408968097 |
Description | Geocoin: An Interactive Workshop, Hyper Island, Manchester. 19th May 2021. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An invited talk hosted by Hyper Island Manchester and attended/presented online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Guest lecture on business models at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Guest lecture on business models, introducing the business model canvas theoretically and practically drawing on examples from DECaDE research on content trading |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | HMRC Workshop - "Blockchain in Supply Chain" led by Prof Parry EPSRC DECADE Project Surrey University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | '+30 civil servants from HMRC, Cabinet Office, Home Office, Border Force, International Chamber of Commerce. All engaged in digital international borders. Workshop with DECADE members from Surrey Business School giving 15 min presentations as a lead in to discussion. Focus on the Governments move to digital borders and how blockchain helps, and the potential barriers. Held 1130am -330pm on 19th January 2023 at Government Offices Great George Street / I00 Parliament Street, plus additional attendees joined online |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited Talk, University of Swansea |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Talk + discussion: Verify My Vote: Augmenting an Internet Voting System with Voter Verifiability |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited talk and panelist for the final DLT4EU event, Brussels / online |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 8 Venture Teams developed spearheading solutions for our Accelerator programme. But, only three of them were awarded with follow-on funding to keep working on their initiatives. Leading-voices of the sector joined a live Round Table to discuss how emerging technologies can help tackle social and environmental challenges. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.dlt4.eu/final-event |
Description | Keep Cutting: Designing with Data UniSA: Creative HDR Seminar and Critique, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 3rd August 2022 Keep Cutting: Designing with Data UniSA: Creative HDR Seminar and Critique, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Keep Cutting: Designing with Data, Adelaide Action Lab, Monash University. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 25th July 2022 Keep Cutting: Designing with Data, Adelaide Action Lab, Monash University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Keep Cutting: Designing with Data, RMIT, Melbourne |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 27th July 2022 Keep Cutting: Designing with Data, RMIT, Melbourne |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Keynote talk at ECCV Workshop on Vision and Art |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | John Collomosse gave a invited Keynote talk ""Content Provenance: To Authenticity and Beyond!" on content provenance and decentralized creative economy work carried out on the DECaDE project at ECCV 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://visarts.eu/ |
Description | Keynote talk for Architecture, Media, Politics & Society Conference 2022, Calgary, Canada |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 29th June 2022 From Countryside to Country-side, Keynote talk for Architecture, Media, Politics & Society Conference 2022, Calgary, Canada |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Keynote-Document_Calgary.pdf |
Description | Ludic-Architectures Summer School, University of Plymouth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 29th June 2022 Ludic-Architectures Summer School, University of Plymouth |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://i-dat.org/ludic-architectures/ |
Description | March 2023 "Blockchain" half day lecturer and design workshop for full time MBA students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Lecture introducing theory, method, and application of blockchain. Then a task to design a blockchain based system. MBA group is global, with many still employed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | November 2022 "Blockchain" half day lecturer and design workshop for Surrey full time Executive MBA students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Executive MBA lecture introducing theory, method, and application of blockchain. Then a task to design a blockchain based system. Executive MBA group come from a range of professions, with some very senior. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | PhD Guest lecture: Theorizing the Contested Space of Paradoxes for Distributed Ledger Technologies - Designing Qualitative Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Dr Birgit Altrichter gave PhD student group guest lecture on her work on blockchain from DECADE |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Playing within Systems for Change (The Art Panel) with Ioannis (John) Bardakos, Tegan Bristow, and Claudia Westermann Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium: Systemic Design Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 6 Oct 2022 Playing within Systems for Change (The Art Panel) with Ioannis (John) Bardakos, Tegan Bristow, and Claudia Westermann Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium: Systemic Design Association |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://rsdsymposium.org/arts-panel/#pdf-rsdx_art-panel_playing-within-systems-for-change-3/1/ |
Description | Presentation and demonstration of DECaDE and FIRE research at FinTech Scotland All Strategy Partners Meeting, Edinburgh. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 1 Dec 2022 Presentation and demonstration of DECaDE and FIRE research at FinTech Scotland All Strategy Partners Meeting, Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation and demonstration to Wells Fargo & NCR |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 2 Dec 2022 Presentation and demonstration to Wells Fargo & NCR on DECaDE and FIRE research. Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation and discussion for Future Gaze: The Future of Creative Innovation, Creative Edinburgh, Edinburgh. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 23 Nov 2022 Presentation and discussion for Future Gaze: The Future of Creative Innovation, Creative Edinburgh, Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Seminar on legal ontologies given at ReMeP: Research Meets Practice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | ReMeP is an annual event to bring research in law and technology to practice. It is attended mainly by representatives from industry, legal practice and government Chaired panel and gave keynote talk on Legal Ontologies. 470 participants, lead to extended questions and discussions, and 2 follow up invitations Recordings of the talks are made available as training tools |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.remep.net/materials-2020/ |
Description | Value creation and displacement Design Research Seminar: Next generation design research in the UK: Conditions, possibilities and consequences. Edinburgh College of Art. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 28th September 2022 Value creation and displacement Design Research Seminar: Next generation design research in the UK: Conditions, possibilities and consequences. Edinburgh College of Art. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Video in Surrey's "Impact in Conversation" series on voting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Talk on verifiable electronic voting system. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAL9cFSY5I |
Description | Webinar: Ownership of Digital Assets |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Two webinars were held for industry and professional practitioners (one focussing on the creative sector, the other with a broader remit) with the dual aim to inform these communities on the proposed law reform of the law of digital assets, and to allow these groups to feed back into the consultation. It outlined the reform proposal and indicated possible consequences for businesses that create, hold or trade in digital assets. It introduced our tentative response from an academic research perspective, eliciting feedback and criticism to make our response relevant to praxis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Webinar: What the future may hold: The Law commission's proposal on legal personality for DAOs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A webinar held for industry and professional practitioners with the dual aim to inform these communities on the proposed law reform of the law of Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and to allow these groups to feed back into the consultation. It outlined the reform proposal and indicated possible consequences for businesses that considered using blockchain based DAOs as a vehicle for their business It introduced our tentative response from an academic research perspective, eliciting feedback and criticism to make our response relevant to praxis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | security and investment challenges in digital economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press piece on Emerging trends in the digital economy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |