---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:08 AM Subject: [members] FW: Blockchains for Social Good on June 21st - and other CAPS events To: [email protected] FYI *From: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> *Date: *Monday, 6 June 2016 at 15:00 *Subject: *Blockchains for Social Good on June 21st - and other CAPS events Dear colleague, Together with Robert Madelin, Senior Innovation Adviser to President Juncker, I would like to invite you to a policy event which will take place in Brussels this June 21st, focussing on the *social applications enabled by distributed ledger technologies*. It aims at tacking stock of existing activities in this emerging field, considering their regulatory and standardisation implications, as well as defining a roadmap of how the European Commission can contribute to these developments, in particular through Horizon 2020 research actions. The line-up of speakers includes experts and practitioners, as well as policy makers and civil society. Agenda and registration can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/blockchains-social-good. Participation is free but early registration is recommended. Please feel free to forward this invitation to any other potentially interested participant! Here also some quick reminders about other related events: 17 June, Barcelona: Workshop on community networks: efficient collaboration between government, citizens and enterprises http://netcommons.eu/?q=content/workshop-community-networking-infrastructure... 29 June, Brussels: policy workshop on *shaping the future of digital innovation in Europe*, leveraging on the experience of current CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation) projects and related activities, to provide strategic recommendations to the EC for further research and innovation actions in this field https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/dsi4eu-shaping-the-future-of-digital-social-inno... 29-30 June, MIT Media Lab: W3C workshop on open standards for blockchains, involving all interested CAPS projects https://www.w3.org/2016/04/blockchain-workshop/ Finally, please note that all presentations from the recent CAPS community meeting held in Berlin are publicly available at https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/caps-community-meeting-an... Kind regards, Fabrizio Sestini *European Commission *DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Senior Expert, Digital Social Innovation Unit E3 " *Net Innovation" *http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/collectiveawareness Follow me on Twitter @100fabrizio *Blockchains for Social Good, June 21**st**:* 9:30 Introduction by the hosts (Committee of the Regions, DG Connect) 9:40 "*DLT* *Beyond financial applications*", by Primavera De Filippi, CNRS, Research Fellow at Berkman Center For Internet & Society *An overview of existing as well as potential applications of DLTs * 10:45 Coffee break 11:00 Roundtable: *Strengths and limitations of distributed ledgers technologies* *for social applications – concrete examples* *Sharing experiences and recommendations for impactful research on distributed ledgers. What has worked and what has not? What are the main roablocks?* · Aaron van Wirdum, Bitcoin Magazine · Brett Scott, Alternative Finance Explorer, University of the Arts London · Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt Shelter Project · Jessi Baker, blockchains for tracing provenance · John Palfreyman, Director Blockchain, IBM Cloud Division · James Hazard, Common Accord · Robert Garskamp, blockchains for refugees (tbc) 12:30 Lunch Break 14:00 Roundtable: *Decentralising governance* (Chair: Robert Madelin) *What could the EU / EC bring? What is necessary to promote practical use cases and governance? Do we need any standardisation/regulation?* · Jakob von Weizsäcker, Member of European Parliament · Philippe Dewost, Caisse Des Dépôts, France · Philip Boucher, Policy analyst, European Parliamentary Research Service · Pindar Wong, Cyberport, HK, Scaling Bitcoin · Catherine Mulligan, Imperial College, UK report on DLT beyond blockchains · Markku Markkula, President of European Committee of Regions (tbc) · Francesca Bria, NESTA, Digital Social Innovation project (tbc) 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 All: *Defining a roadmap for EU research on Blockchains for the Social Good* *What has the EC done insofar? Brief summary of ICT call on "distributed architectures for decentralised data governance" (DG CNECT), DG FISMA and DG GROW activities * Open discussion and conclusions 17:30 Closing -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/