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Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting your work to our minitrack on
Blockchain cases and innovations at the Hawai’i International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Blockchain, the technology underlying cryptocurrencies like
Bitcoin, has been receiving considerable attention in recent
years, as new use cases in the public and private sector have been
identified. What started as a solution to the double spend problem
with digital money, is being explored as the backbone technology
in scenarios where a trusted third party (e.g., a notary or a
bank) is normally required. Using this technology, transactions
are securely registered on a data structure (aka the ledger)
distributed across a network of peers that validate the entries
using a consensus mechanism. New records are cryptographically
linked to existing ones, rendering them virtually immutable. The
resulting auditability and transparency have been leveraged in
proposing innovative solutions to land registries, to stop the
spread of conflict diamonds, to fight the counterfeiting of
medication, to make supply chains less opaque, and, generally, to
promote new financial services. Additionally, blockchains can also
store and enforce the execution of algorithmic code know as smart
contracts – pieces of code that are executed automatically once
predetermined conditions are met – further reducing uncertainty
and promoting confidence among stakeholders that would not
normally trust each other. Nevertheless, we are still in the early
days of blockchain adoption, compared by some to the introduction
of the World Wide Web itself. Then, as now, few if any could
predict the full extent of the disruptive innovations that would
emerge fostered by this emerging technology.
For these reasons, it is important for academics to systematically
research this field, at various levels. Conferences play a key
role in disseminating knowledge about Distributed Ledger
Technology (DLT - including blockchains) due to the speed at which
developments occur. The proposed minitrack had a considerable
attendance in the past three editions, with the audience also
registering to get information on new editions or other related
developments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Blockchain case studies, applications, and implementations
· Blockchain and privacy, security, and identity
· Blockchain and digital transformation
· Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
· Decentralised Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
· Decentralised Applications
· Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
· The social and organizational impact of blockchain
· Barriers and enablers in blockchain adoption
· Blockchain and business model innovation
· Regulatory frameworks for Blockchain
· Governance and Blockchain
· Verticals using Blockchain (financial, healthcare, energy,
transportation, others)
· Blockchain in e-government and public administration
· Blockchain and the Internet-of-Things
· Blockchain in education
· Blockchain in solving migration and refugee issues
· Blockchain-driven marketplaces
· Uses of smart contracts
· Technology and infrastructure issues in Blockchain
On-line at:
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/organizational-systems-and-technology/#blockchain-cases-and-innovations-minitrack
Important Dates for Paper Submission:
· June 15, 2021 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper Submission Deadline
· August 17, 2021: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
· September 22, 2021: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final
Manuscript for Publication
· October 1, 2021: Deadline for at least one author of each paper
to register for HICSS-55
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
· Marinos Themistocleous (Primary Contact), University of Nicosia
themistocleous.m@unic.ac.cy
· Paulo Rupino da Cunha, University of Coimbra
rupino@dei.uc.pt
· Klitos Christodoulou, University of Nicosia
christodoulou.kl@unic.ac.cy
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