It has been another busy month at the BBA.
I was pleased to see significant interest in Evidence Based Blockchain, at the Identity and Cryptography conference recently held at Edinburgh Napier University. It was exciting to talk to so many developers, coders, scientists, researchers and enterpreneurs under one roof. Here are some of my reflections and takeaways from the event.
Another important research exploring the use of Blockchain for Transport and Climate Change was published in the JBBA. All research published in the journal is fully open access and does not require any subscription at all, so do checkout and subscribe to the journal's RSS Feed to receive real-time updates and notifications about articles published in the JBBA.
To acknowledge the vital role of Peer Review in advancing quality science and to celebrate the PeerRevWeek, the Journal of the British Blockchain Association awards its Outstanding Reviewers. Congratulations to Professor Jeff Daniels, Kevin Curran, Marc Pilkington, and Adam Hayes!
Professor Dr R K Shyamsundar has been appointed to the Fellowship of the BBA. We now have Fellows based in the USA, Australia, Singapore, India, France, UK, Italy and The Netherlands. More details are available here.
We would love to hear your feedback, ideas and suggestions. Please do not hesitate to reach out to:
admin@britishblockchainassociation.org.
Until next time,
Naseem
Dr Naseem Naqvi
FRCP FBBA MAcadMEd FHEA MSc (Blockchain & Cryptocurrency)
President, The BBA
Editor-in-Chief, The JBBA
Interim Chair, Centre for Evidence-Based Blockchain CEBB
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New Fellow of the British Blockchain Association
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Professor Dr R K Shyamsundar FBBA
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Professor Dr R K Shyamsundar has been appointed to the Fellowship of the British Blockchain Association. Prof Shyamsundar is a Distinguished Senior Professor of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and directs the Information Security Research and Development Centre from Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeITY) for the Government of India. He is leading the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Research and Education Programme at IIT, Bombay. Prof Shyamsundar has made outstanding contributions to Real-Time Distributed Computing, Logics of Programs and Cybersecurity, with more than 300 publications, 8 books, 8 international patents, 3 Indian patents, and 3 Best Paper Awards. He is also a Senior Professor at TATA Institute of Fundamental Research.
Prof Shyamsundar is a Distinguished Senior Professor of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and directs the Information Security Research and Development Centre from Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeITY) for the Government of India.
Prof Shyamsundar is leading the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Research and Education Programme at IIT, Bombay. He has made outstanding contributions to Real-Time Distributed Computing, Logics of Programs and Cybersecurity, with more than 300 publications, 8 books, 8 international patents, 3 Indian patents, and 3 Best Paper Awards. He is the Founding President of Indian Association of Research in Computing Science (IARCS)
Founding Dean of School of Technology and Computer Science, India, JC Bose National Fellow, and the receipient of SN Mitra Award India for Excellence in Research.
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JBBA announces recipients of Global Peer Review Awards
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As we celebrate the Global Peer Review Week 2019 with the theme of 'Quality in Peer Review', The Journal of the British Blockchain Association (JBBA) wishes to thank all reviewers who provide valuable contributions, and especially recognise those who offer exceptional reviews. As part of the JBBA’s publishing commitment to reward reviewers, it has announced its Global Reviewer Award winners for 2019. The winners have been carefully selected by the Editorial Board based on the quality, quantity, dedication, and timeliness of their reviews.
Recipients of 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award:
Jeff Daniels, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), USA
Adam Hayes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kevin Curran, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK
Marc Pilkington, University of Burgundy, France
Check out our full press release here:
https://www.britishblockchainassociation.org/post/jbba-announces-recipients-of-global-peer-review-awards
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Blockchain EXPO North America
We are pleasd to be the Platinum World Series Partners of Blockchain EXPO North America, to be held at Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley, November 13-14, 2019.
BBA members and affiliated partner organisations will receive a 20% discount.
To find out more and to register, visit:
https://blockchain-expo.com/northamerica/partners/british-blockchain-association/
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CEBB Industry webinar was held on 17 September and we learned all things Hyperledger from Matt Lucas of IBM and BBA's Board Member. All CEBB Industry webinars are now available, open access, on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/TheJBBA
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BBA's Board Member and R3's CTO Richard Brown spoke at Blockhain Live on Tokenisation of Digtal Assets
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Blockchain for LICC (Low Income Country Cities) Transportation
Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa: Preliminary research into AFC (Automatic Fare Collection) using Blockchain Tackling Congestion, reducing Pollution and targeting subsidies by establishing a Blockchain-based Transportation Infrastructure Blockchain for sharing of data on movement in less incumbent legacy systems
Research by Simon Herko, published OpenAccess in the Journal of The British Blockchain Association:
https://lnkd.in/gvBk-fr
Indexed in DOAJ: https://lnkd.in/gVfsd3m
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JBBA's Associate EIC, Professor Dr John Domingue FBBA recently Chaired a panel at the Pan Commonwealth Forum on "How Blockchains are Transforming Higher Education". Other speakers include the UK Minister for Schools Nick Gibb, the Scottish Minister for Education Richard Lochhead, The President of the Seychelles, Sir John Daniel, former OU Vice Chancellor and Commonwealth Forum Chair, Lord Puttnam, former OU Chancellor, Sarah Brown, Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education and wife of former PM Gordon Brown.
The forum was attended by 500 attendees from 61 Commonwealth countries.
https://lnkd.in/gT9dTF2
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BBA's Board Members Marjan Delatinne, Ripple's Global Head of Banking, and Michelle Chivunga, Regional Advisor for Africa, at the OECD
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BBA's Board Member and Microsoft's Principal Healthcare Lead David Houlding is speaking at Precision Medicine Leader's Summit on "How can blockchain power AI to the next level for precision medicine?" in Torrey Pines, CA on Oct 10-11 2019.
https://bit.ly/31d6Iaa
https://bit.ly/2N9c17a.
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Fully open access, high-quality educational content now available on the BBA YouTube Channel, including Industry webinars, panel debates, and BlockREF and JBBA updates from internationally renowned blockchain and cryptocurrency experts.
More than 17+ hours was watched in the past month. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.
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JBBA's Global Attention and Influence
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List of Articles in the upcoming Issue of the JBBA
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