Kolloquium SoSe 2022

Prof. Dr. Roman Beck

IT University, København, Denmark

When: Mo, 05.09.2022, at 17:15

Where: Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal (Room B-201)

We are going to provide a livestream during the lecture. For the access data please register at https://mail-mm01.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mailman/listinfo/kolloquium.

Topic

Token and Sustainability

Language: english

Abstract

Crypto tokens, or short tokens, play an important role in the emerging Blockchain economy. They exist in form of payment tokens such as Bitcoin, as non-fungible tokens (NFT) predominantly of relevance in the art industry, or as different types of asset tokens in DeFi and other applications. Tokens and supporting token systems have the potential to improve sustainability in ecologic, as well as economic terms, if design accordingly. What is needed are value considerations for engineers and system architects alike to create and implement token systems that reflect and support our values and norms. In this presentation, a brief historic positioning of tokens will be given, as well as sustainability and ethical considerations will be made, followed by some examples, as base for a subsequent discussion. We will discuss how the EU Commission is handling sustainability and blockchain, as well as what is currently worked on at the European Blockchain Partnership Expert Group on developing Ethical Guidelines for Blockchain systems.

Bio

Roman Beck is Full Professor within the BusinessIT department at IT University of Copenhagen. He is Lead Researcher and Head of the European Blockchain Center. As Blockchain economist, his research focuses on the role of changing nature of work due to Blockchain with focus on governance and value creation in decentralized systems. Roman has published over 30 journal and 80 peer-reviewed conference articles in outlets such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and many others. He is the co-conference chair for the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) 2022. Roman is Head of the Danish ISO TC 307 Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology standardization group and Convenor of ISO TC 307 WG5 Blockchain Governance standardization. He also represents Denmark at the European Blockchain Partnership Technical Steering Group.