May Newsletter 2019

President's Message

Some really exciting and important updates to share with you in this newsletter!

Firstly, I am pleased to announce that The British Blockchain Association have launched a series of educational webinars for our members, that will cover emerging trends in Blockchain industry, DLT research debates and reviews, and 1-1 Q&A sessions with the BBA Advisors, Editors, Thought Leaders, Influencers and Blockchain experts. The webinars are bite-size, 20-25 minute sessions that members can join-in from the comfort of their own home, any where in the world or while on the move. These sessions are very carefully designed - we aim to have a practical, to-the-point conversation with the experts - questions you always wanted to ask, but most of us never really gets a chance to, when at a conference or a meeting. Members receive a CPD certificate of participation. The first webinar was held on Friday, 24 May, entitled “7 Questions with Marc Pilkington". The webinar covered the current university research landscape, top tips on writing a world-class blockchain research paper, advice for students and entrepreneurs wishing to pursue a career in blockchain, and more. The feedback we received afterwards was overwhelmingly positive.

On a similar note, I am absolutely delighted to share that the JBBA has been indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. DOAJ have a very stringent assessment criteria in place for indexing and listing open access journals in their database. The journal must satisfy the highest standards of quality, transparency, principles, peer review policies and procedures before they are indexed in DOAJ. It receives more than 900,000 views and 300,000 unique visitors a month from all over the world.

I was pleased to see the JBBA research included in the some of the world's top universities' postgraduate curriculum “Essential Reading” list - Recently, City University of London, have added JBBA ppaer to their SMM393 (Fintech in Shipping, Energy Trade and Finance Module).

BBA has joined The International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications - INATBA. We look forward to working closely with other member organisations. Should you wish to develop strategic collaboration and work with us on global projects, please reach out to us.

BBA Fellowship (FBBA) applications submission deadline is 30 June. If you now someone who has made an exceptional contribution to the field of Blockchain, DLT or Cryptocurrencies, please put forward your nominations for the award of Fellowship of The British Blockchain Association FBBA. To view the list of current Fellows, and to apply, visit: https://www.britishblockchainassociation.org/fellowship

And lastly, a very warm welcome to all new members that have joined the association.

Until next time,

Naseem

Dr. Naseem Naqvi FBBA FHEA MAcadMed FRCP MSc(Cryptocurrency)

Editor in Chief, The JBBA

‘Don’t do Boring, Trivial, and Predictable research.’

‘Qualities of a WORLD CLASS Blockchain researcher? - Humility and Honesty”.

‘Who should fund blockchain research? Many stakeholders in the ecosystem.’

‘Want to do an MSc in Blockchain? What are you PASSIONATE about?’

What a fantastic webinar it was!! Thank you so much for sharing so many pearls of wisdom with us, Marc Pilkington! Held on Friday 24 May 2019, the webinar was attended by BBA Members, JBBA Editors, Blockchain researchers, BBA Student Forum Reps and the BBA Advisory Board.

The JBBA has been indexed in the DOAJ!

Delighted to announce that we are now providing *Article Level* JBBA to DOAJ.

What does this mean for you as an Author?

- Your Article receives 3X more views when in DOAJ. DOAJ receives more than 900,000 page views and 300,000 unique visitors a month from all over the world. - Your Article’s metadata will be essentially EVERYWHERE- Most aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals collect DOAJ metadata and include it in their products. Examples are , Serial Solutions and .
- DOAJ metadata refreshes EVERY HOUR.
- DOAJ is OAI compliant and once your article is in DOAJ, it is automatically harvestable.
- DOAJ is Open URL compliant and once your article is in DOAJ, it is automatically linkable.
- Over 95% of the DOAJ Publisher community said that DOAJ is important for increasing their journal's visibility
- DOAJ is cited as a source of high quality, open access journals in research and scholarly publishing circles.

The 3rd Issue of the JBBA was published this month!

This Special Conference Edition features Original Peer-reviewed Blockchain Research, ISC2019 Conference Proceedings, Abstracts. Testimonials form Blockchain Researchers and more.
Hard copied of the journal have been distributed to our Academic Partners, Universities and Supporters.

We have sent the hard copies of the JBBA to over 100 libraries, at universities that are center of excellence for blockchain research and education:

JBBA at Stanford University Library...

Members of the public can purchase a copy by visiting the JBBA webpage.

Checkout some of the feedback we have received to date!

The BBA are delighted to join The International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications - INATBA.

INATBA is a European Commission initiative.

The 2nd BBA Blockchain International Scientific Conference (#ISC2020) will be held at Edinburgh Napier University, on Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Some of the world’s most prestigious universities were bidding to host the , and we are grateful for all the offers of support.

Please mark the date in your diary - We are putting together an excellent programme. Conference Host is Prof Bill Buchanan OBE, PhD, FBCS, Fellow of The British Blockchain Associatio and Assoc. Editor in Chief, The JBBA.

Other updates:

Please subscribe to our JBBA YouTube Channel to receive cutting-edge scholarly contents including latest journal updates, debates, reviews and commentaries from researchers, reviewers and editorial board members.

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We have become a member of Portico, a Digital Preservation and Archiving portal. PORTICO has over 650 universities and academic institutions as its members.

https://www.portico.org/publishers/jbba

BBA’s Advisory Board Member and Ripple's Global Head of Banking, Marjan Delatinne spoke at the European Blockchain Convention, on the topic of "Blockchain - 5 years from Now:

BBA’s Matt Lucas is speaking at British Standards Institution Digital World: IoT, in London on 20 September.

Register for the event here:
lnkd.in/g2GuPek

JBBA's Associate Editor in Chief and Academic Advisor Professor John Domingue recently spoke at the British Council about "Decentralising Truth at Universities":

Congratulations to Matt Lucas, Blockchain Global Engagement Lead at IBM and Advisory Board Member of The British Blockchain Association for co-authoring a book on Enterprise Blockchains, now available for Free download:

www.ibm.biz/BlockOReilly

Michelle Chivunga, BBA Advisor and Chair of BBA International Committee attended the BCR meeting where there was a great dialogue and strategic engagement on Digital Engagement. She also chaired the panel discussion with Tom Lee from Fundstrat and Forbes Naseem Aslam at the at a conference.

Our next "7 Questions with.." Webinar is being held on Tuesday 18th June @ 6:30pm BST

Our Guest will be the CTO of R3 and the BBA Advisory Board member, Richard G.Brown.

Join us for this great event!

BBA Members can register here:
Register Here!

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