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Cambridge Analytica saga highlights the delicate balance of privacy, community and politics
March 22, 2018 vnation editor
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Solution: virtual citizen networks by like-minded individuals People can share personal data within a system they govern and be certain that it won’t be used against their political goals.
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EU plans to tax companies where they generate business (vs where HQ is)
March 22, 2018 vnation editor
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Why not a single global tax for ALL digital firms? This would be the ONLY tax they pay. A global clearance system settles tax receivables among national governments. Simple, fair, actionable and truly modern!
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Post-Blockchain Public Services – like never before
January 27, 2018 vnation editor
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The blockchain (distributed ledger) technology will disrupt many sectors from finance to travel. Public services is no exception. A new framework of trust is the core of the new era. As the traditional regulator/ guarantor/ arbiter of trust, national governments […]
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Cambridge Belediyesi, evsizler için temassız ödemeli bağış noktaları oluşturuyor
July 24, 2018 vnation editor
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Her geçen gün teknolojinin insan faydasına kullanıldığı yeni bir çalışmayla karşılaşıyoruz. Bu kez, haberler İngiltere’den. Şehrin farklı noktalarına temassız ödeme noktaları kuran Cambridge Belediyesi, kişilerin kartları veya telefonları aracılığıyla ihtiyaç sahiplerine kolay ve pratik bir şekilde bağış yapılabilmesini sağlıyor. İşlemler kolaylaşacak Şehirde […]
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Virtual Nations: An Emerging Supranational Cyber Trend
July 16, 2018 vnation editor
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The world is becoming increasingly digitized, and there is a rising threat from online organizations that could mimic and come to rival governments. These virtual nations are cyber communities which have succeeded in gaining power, influence, or capital comparable to that of […]
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The Virtual Country: Six Possible Scenarios for the Creation of Viable Virtual Countries
July 16, 2018 vnation editor
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The Internet, while still in its infancy, has created borderless economies, that are confusing the issues of power and control, and even the sovereignty of nations. We are now entering into a new era of public power and control. The […]
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Uganda introduces social media tax despite criticism
July 16, 2018 vnation editor
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Government says measure will bring in much-needed revenue but activists describe it as an attempt to ‘gag’ free speech. Millions of people in Uganda now have to pay to use popular social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter as new […]
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İspanya’nın mevcut iktidar partisi Blockchain’i meclise getirdi
July 6, 2018 vnation editor
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İspanya’nın mevcut iktidar partisi Blockchain’i meclise getirdi. Hazırlanan yasa tasarısı kamu yönetimindeki pek çok süreci Blockchain ile yönetmeyi kapsıyor. Blockchain’in en önemli avantajlarından biri olan “doğrulama” sektör bağımsız ve işlevsel bir nitelik kazanmasını sağlıyor. Henüz bu teknoloji kamu tarafında çok […]
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One of Estonia’s first “e-residents” explains what it means to have digital citizenship
June 6, 2018 vnation editor
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An online community survey recently asked me where I’m based. Without hesitation, I answered “Estonia.” You might ask: as a US citizen, why in the world did I do that? But as crazy as it may sound, Estonia is the […]
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Study: Virtual Schools Growing in MI Despite Poor Outcomes
May 13, 2018 vnation editor
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The concept of “going to school” usually involves hundreds of students congregating under the same roof, studying just feet away from each other. These days, a growing number of students are trying an alternative: virtual classes. Online education has found […]
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Bitnation PAT Token Makes you part of a Decentralized Borderless Voluntary Nation
May 13, 2018 vnation editor
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Bitnation is a Blockchain based platform that allows users to impart a physical and geographical aspect to the digital decentralized world. A shared mesh, it is the next evolution of a peer 2 peer networking on the internet. A user […]
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Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did.
April 16, 2018 vnation editor
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Peering into a webcam, her face intermittently frozen over an iffy Skype connection in Medellin, Colombia, Lizz Quain was explaining not long ago why she uprooted her 9-year-old twins almost a year and a half ago to travel the world. […]
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Social Connection vs. Self-Government
April 13, 2018 vnation editor
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From its inception democratic life in the United States has promised to protect the search for truth by allowing ideas to compete with one another on fair and free terms. Citizens have long placed their faith in this “marketplace of […]
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The demise of the nation state
April 5, 2018 vnation editor
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What is happening to national politics? Every day in the US, events further exceed the imaginations of absurdist novelists and comedians; politics in the UK still shows few signs of recovery after the “national nervous breakdown” of Brexit. France “narrowly […]
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Screw borders, Bitnation lets you create blockchain-powered virtual nations
April 4, 2018 vnation editor
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Governments around the world are overseeing a surge in bureaucracy, and increasing intrusion into people’s personal lives, running the ever-increasing risk of tyranny among the people. The world may be divided by tectonic shifts, but what if there was a […]
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How Will Blockchain Technology Empower Online Communities
March 30, 2018 vnation editor
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If you travel back in time to the early ages, you find tribes. Almost everyone belonged to a tribe. They worked for the common good. It’s still encoded in our genes. The only change being tribes are now called communities. You […]
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More Than Just Bitcoin: Blockchain Has Value Across Multiple Industries
March 24, 2018 vnation editor
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“Blockchain” is undeniably one of the hottest words on the internet. As proof, turn to Google Trends to see its traction over time. Couple that with the articles being published almost daily about this technology, the LinkedIn groups discussing it, the commentators crawling […]
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