TOKEN

National Event: Blockchain Policy for the Future of Public Services
2020-10-22 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Online Event
In times of uncertainty, people turn their eyes towards public power. Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) such as blockchain are claimed to bring new opportunities for more secure, agile, transparent and cost-effective public governance. Meanwhile blockchain is labeled as big hype for nothing.
In this virtual event, we will bring stakeholders together to discuss the effects of DLT in public services, the role of technology in government and examine what these could and should mean in terms of policy. The event also acts as the launch of the Horizon 2020 funded TOKEN (Transformative Impact Of Blockchain Technologies in Public Services) project in Finland.
Tentative schedule
10:30 OPENING: The possibilities of blockchain policies
Introduction to the vision of Token-project and blockchain policies
Johannes Anttila and Johannes Mikkonen, Demos Helsinki
Johannes Anttila and Johannes Mikkonen are senior experts working in the Governance Innovation -team of Demos Helsinki. They are responsible for TOKEN Policy Observatories, which mobilizes European policy-makers and representatives of public authorities to co-create technical, political and academic understanding of using distributed ledger technologies in public administration
11:10 KEYNOTE: The promise and the pitfalls of distributed ledger technology in government
Vinay Gupta, Founder and CEO of Mattereum
Vinay Gupta is a leading figure in the blockchain space, having co-ordinated the release of the blockchain platform Ethereum in July 2015, and was strategic architect for ConsenSys Systems, a technology hub focusing on the Ethereum blockchain and related applications.
10.50 LIGHTNING SPEECHES on possibilities and challenges of implementing blockchain in public administration and services
Juho Lindman, Associate professor and Director of the Blockchain Lab at University of Gothenburg
Other speakers to follow.
11:30 GROUP DISCUSSION
Facilitated discussion in small groups on possibilities and challenges of blockchain policies. Opportunity for networking and exchange of ideas.
11:50 SUMMARY & CLOSING REMARKS
12:00 END

Integrating Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies in Smart Cities
2020-09-30 13:30 - 14:30 UTC | Online Event
During the session, the potential derived from the use of blockchain and DLT technologies within the framework of Smart Cities will be analyzed, supporting the objectives of transparency and traceability of Smart Cities processes, as well as offering guarantees and confidence in transactions linked to the sharing and trading of public and private data (Data Sharing and Trading/Marketplace). We will explain how it is possible to integrate blockchain and DLT technology within FIWARE-based Smart Cities platforms. Likewise, the collaboration plans underway between FIWARE and blockchain/DLT initiatives at Spanish (Alastria) and European (EBSI – European BlockChain Service Infrastructure) level will be analyzed.
Featured Speakers:
Juanjo Hierro (CTO, FIWARE Foundation)
Jesus Ruiz (Member of the Board and CTO, Alastria Blockchain Ecosystem)
José Manuel Avelino (Founder & CEO en Vestigia Blockchain Solutions)
Antonio Jara (CEO, HOPU)

National event: Impacto de Blockchain en los Servicios Públicos
2020-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online Event
Santander Municipality, together with the University of Cantabria, organised an event for TOKEN in Spain. The event took place online, due to COVID-19 restrictions, and in Spanish.
In this webinar, different entities and public administrations showed how the application of DLT allows public services to improve efficiency, boost public participation, increase transparency and promote automation through intelligent contracts.
In addition to TOKEN presentation, the following keynotes took place (in Spanish):

European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI): The European Union governments’ blockchain network for the public administration’s transformation. Jesús Ruiz, Alastria.
The citizens as sovereigns of their identity. Iván Gutierrez Agüero, Tecnalia.
Blockchain communities in Spain: a decentralised organization. Daniel Labeaga, Blockchain Aragón
Blockchain implication in public services. Diego Cagigas Castro and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, University of Cantabria.

Unblock the City
2020-09-17 09:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Brussels)
In this webinar, you will learn how public authorities, and specifically cities & municipalities, can use DLTs to improve their processes and solve issues related to trust, transparency and privacy. The webinar takes you at cruising speed around the progress made, ambitions of the project and introduces you to the four applications.
– Learn about which applications are being developed within the Token project:

Management of public funding (tendering)
Transparent management of public accounts
Dynamic access to the city & city logistics
Increased trust within an (urban) data marketplace

– Learn how the city of Leuven looks at (last mile) urban logistics and how they plan to promote local trade and sustainable modes of transport.
– Learn about the City of Things program, imec is researching to see how technology can be used to make our cities more livable.
Register here.

TOKEN Policy Observatory at Untitled Festival
2020-09-17 - 2020-09-18 | Online Event
On 17th-18th September, the first TOKEN Policy Observatory at Untitled festival. All the TOKEN sessions will be organized during this festival time. The sessions are:
A get-together for TOKEN consortium partners at the beginning of the festival. Three conversations on Token vision. Initial topics:
1) Radical transparency will be the future of public administration and will be the main cause of why some governments fail and some excel.
2) Blockchain – the problem or solution to 21st-century governments?
3) Data will save the world.
Four experimentation workshops The TOKEN sessions (except a consortium exclusive short get-together) are open to all attendees.

FIWARE eGov DAY: From eGovernment to eGovernance: Open Platforms for Public Value Creation
2020-09-10 14:00 - 16:30 UTC | Online Event
More and more, eGovernance applications are becoming part of citizens’ lives as they save costs and citizens’ time. The major elements are connectivity, information, skill set, budget. Given how tight public budgets often are, the return on investment is the major focus for governments when looking into digitizing their services. How can they go about that with costly software? The use of free and Open Source software could be the answer as it provides cost savings, security, scalability, reliability, interoperability, and globalization.
To showcase the ways in which the FIWARE Community members are working to foster this economic model, whilst also reducing the financial burden of public administrations and increasing citizens’ engagement within the process, this free virtual experience brings together private and public businesses, and developers operating at different fields to discuss how Open Source technology can make a difference.
The FIWARE eGovernment DAY will feature outstanding keynote and specialist speeches from experts in the field, as well as real-life use cases coming from across the world highlighting how nations are attempting to innovate their infrastructure – even though they may be at different stages in their journey of digital transformation – not least in respect to the use of Open Source approaches and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) such as Blockchain, for example.

National Event: Transforming public services with distributed ledger technologies
2020-07-08 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online Event
Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are the cornerstone of future innovation. They secure processes thereby solving problems related to trust, transparency, and confidentiality. In the public sector, as in any other sector, this will bring about a transformation of the services offered.
TOKEN is a project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. The TOKEN ecosystem will facilitate the adoption of Blockchain and DLT technologies by providing public administrations with components adapted to their needs. TOKEN will demonstrate the added value provided by Blockchain via concrete and replicable use cases.
Infrachain a.s.b.l. organizes a free webinar on July 8 at 10:00 am on how to transform public services with DLTs. This webinar is part of the TOKEN project. The two-hour webinar is intended for anyone interested in the use of DLTs in the public sector: municipal and national administrations, developers and IT managers in the public sector and in the private sector working for the public sector, regulators, researchers and citizens.
The webinar will explore how governments can adopt solutions that help manage processes in a more open, reliable, efficient and transparent manner.
Pēteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain at DG Connect (European Commission) will deliver a key note speech on the relevance and possibilities of DLTs in transforming public services and creating more fair and sustainable societies. Carlo Gambucci, Director of the Intercommunal IT Management Syndicate (SIGI), will present the Blockchain initiatives launched in the Luxembourg municipal sector. Juanita Devis of the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium will present a use case deployed in the city of Leuven. A panel of experts including representatives from the Ministry of Digitization, the Interreg project BLING (Blockchain in Government), the Decentralized Identity Foundation and INATBA will discuss how to support decentralized ecosystems in the public sector.
Programme and registration: https://infrachain.com/token-webinar

Wednesday Webinar: Blockchain/DLT Integration with FIWARE
2020-07-01 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Online Event
FIWARE Wednesday Webinars – Integrating FIWARE with Blockchain/DLTs (1 July 2020)
This webinar will be an introduction to Blockchain and how FIWARE can be integrated with Blockchain/DLTs with a demo. In addition, it will also explain upcoming DLT components in the FIWARE ecosystem and an idea/state of art to leverage DLTs in ‘Powered by FIWARE’ systems. The corresponding slide decks can be found here: https://bit.ly/2AiP7Wa Check out the #WednesdayWebinars playlist for more FIWARE webinars: http://bit.ly/2OhnCyT
Chapter: Blockchain Difficulty: 3
Audience: Technical Domain Specific
Speaker: Har Preet Singh (Technical Expert and Evangelist, FIWARE Foundation)

TOKEN Immersive Bootcamp
2020-04-29 - 2020-04-30
TOKEN Immersive Bootcamp will take place on 29th and 30th of April and is being organised in order to create a common ground of knowledge for all the partners of the TOKEN project.
This Bootcamp will enable the owners of the Pioneer Use Cases to dive in understanding the actual potential of Distributed Ledger Technologies for the transformation of Public Services. It will set up the right mindset and expectations in order to carry out the pioneer Use Case accordingly with the goal of examining how the DLT can impact the public sector. And it will, also, help to activate the multi-disciplinary team that will be involved in piloting and assessing the transformation of public services by using DLT.
What will the event pay attention to:

Properly train the technical owners of each Use Case regarding the technical fundamentals of DLT and the TOKEN BCPaaS.
Get onboard the users and stakeholders to the meaningful fundamentals of the DLT and the Value proposition of the TOKEN BCPaaS, from the public service perspective.
Build up and strengthen the multidisciplinary teams that will carry out the Use Cases.
Dive in the evaluation framework scenario and ex-ante analysis for the impact assessment.
Define the specific next steps and the Readiness Roadmap to be followed for the proper preparation of each Use Case as part of a common goal. This will include guidelines for analysis of current processes and requirements and identification of channels for gathering the feedback of extended user groups during the implementation of the PUCs.
