Author: Andrew
More reasons to look at digital voting
The incident of ballot burning last night in the USA election, while small, is yet another value add for the widespread deployment of Digital Signatures and Distributed Ledger electronic mobile voting. At the last presidential election, discussion was ongoing about voting by mobile, indeed the discussion has been ongoing since at least the early 2000s.… Read more
AI and Blockchain
This document I found on LinkedIn has an interesting fusion of AI and DLT to solve a pressing corporate problem. A similar approach can be used for supply chain, construction management and as an underlying automator to city management, as I have pushed for recently in the digital twin context. Read more
How much smart city is too much?
Grab the Data, then work it out Have you seen that amusing meme with a picture of a couple in the 1960 dining in luxury on an airplane, with an airline host serving them from a trolley overflowing with luscious foods? The couple are sitting in luxury seats with a silver service of cutlery and… Read more
Electronic voting for cities, governments and companies
This blog is intended to discuss the current state of Know Your Customer (KYC) technology and explore the new technologies that can be applied to the process as well as propose a methodology that can be implement to combine these technologies in new services for cities. Today KYC has multiple challenges, including the cost of… Read more
Interview on Digitalization in the Construction Industry
In Conversation with Andrew Rippon to Understand His Perspective About Digitalization in the Construction Industry In an era characterized by rapid technological advancements, industries across the board are undergoing transformative shifts, and the construction sector is no exception. The traditional image of hard hats, blueprints, and heavy machinery is evolving into a dynamic and digitally… Read more
Digital Twin for a City
A wholistic approach to developing a city Read more
Contract Signatures on Digital Twin and Autonomous Bus
The Royal Commission for AlUla signed two memorandums of understanding with the French companies Dassault Systèmes and the RATP group on long-term strategic partnerships https://www.afalula.com/en/the-royal-commission-for-alula-signed-two-memorandums-of-understanding-with-the-french-companies-dassault-systemes-and-the-ratp-group-on-long-term-strategic-partnerships Read more
The case for Cross blockchain independence
Does anyone remember AOL’s walled garden internet service or even Apple’s cutesy eWorld, with its simplistic town square analogy? I remember it well and it was not very exciting for long, unless you were styling it and accessing it through an Apple Newton as I did, major geek creds! These, along with others, were attempts… Read more
Inter- government blockchain consortia can lead to a more seamless world
The promise of the blockchain is all over the news these days. The explosion of interest has been such that even my spell checker has finally learned the word now! I subscribe absolutely to the mantra that with blockchain we are finally going to be able to remove paper and manual processes, as well as… Read more
Can we blockchain enable parlianmentary voting to protect government from terrorists?
The tragic and senseless events in London have sparked a thought about the security and resilience of national governments in a terrorist age. Firstly let me state my sympathies for the victims families and admiration for the security people involved. This was a malicious and premeditated attack on a central infrastructure of government. Clearly well… Read more