Blockchain & DLT
BLING & Parliamentary Showcase
There’s no shortage of acronyms in academia – its RIDDLED (not an acronym, just capitalised for emphasis) with them! I was thrilled to chair the BLING conference – the mid term of the EU Interreg North Sea Region project on Blockchain in Government, where we discussed use cases of blockchain and DLT adding value to…
DLT Course for Everyone
When I worked with SRUC, I developed a course that anyone can take as a learning journey, on Distributed Ledger Technology in the Natural Economy Sector.
Best Research Paper 2020, ISC2021 & Agrimetrics
Impact in academia is deemed by the UKRI as a “demonstrable contribution that excellent social and economic research makes in shifting understanding and advancing scientific method, theory and application across and within disciplines.” Using participatory action research (PAR) is a method for achieving impact whilst research and development is ongoing, and my last journal paper…
This is Huge… This is BIG
When you write an article for a peer-reviewed academic article, the feedback and evidence of impact you expect is a citation in another journal article in the future. So I was pleasantly surprised to get positive social media feedback on LinkedIn immediately for Piece of Cake: Assuring Specific Qualities of Product in Farm Lifecycles with…
SRUC Senior Challenge Research Fellowship
Dr Hannah Rudman has just joined SRUC. She is Senior Challenge Research Fellow & Data Policy Lead. Hannah’s digital and data innovation applied research and development work is grounded in interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research, which is practice-led rather than practice-based, and typically helps to create actionable knowledge with participants. Its about working out how digital tools and data…
Reality DLT: 2019
I review 2019 – a year in which Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) proved they could enable real and measurable citizen and business value. The Oil and Gas sector (O&G) ranks last of all industries in digital maturity (Deloitte’s study also noted that the industry loses $1.6 trillion in revenue by “failing to fully embrace digital”). However, a study conducted by the World Economic Forum concluded “digital transformation” in O&G had a total…
Massive Transformational Purpose?
Dr Hannah Rudman considers why championing distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in manufacturing and resources and public sectors is also a Massive Transformational Purpose (MTP). When I was at secondary school in 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee wrote his paper proposing a World Wide Web of connected computers, which would allow digital exchange of information. I…
A year in DLT
2018: a year in which Distributed Ledger Technology has moved into the mainstream, with public sector projects building trust and transparency into citizen services, and private sector projects reducing timescales for tracking and tracing products from a week to just 2.2 seconds. 2018 was a year of maturation for distributed ledger technologies (DLT) with ever…
DLT in Public Services
Th report for Scottish Government, Distributed Ledger Technologies in Public Services that Hannah Rudman co-authored is based on a study of international best practice, including interviews with technology experts and local public sector agencies, and learnings from worldwide public sector implementations. Digital life relies on the exchange of information. When data is shared, it may be…
DLT – the next big DT
Distributed Ledger Technologies – the next big Digital Transformation? (This article was originally published on 26.02.18 by DIGIT.FYI) Even in this age of digital transformation (DT), protecting assets across organisational boundaries, establishing and verifying identities, chronicling events, and guiding interactions between individuals, communities, organisations and nations, usually happens offline. Web pages and apps digitise only…