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rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if your city has major blockchain learning club - eg shenzhen
or to share fav references - eg tapscott ted:video /transcript/bookclub

what if there was an open university of blockchain coders and it was the number 1 collaboration search on the web - bravo coders4sustainability and all under30s who celebrate them and teachers of 7th grade sustainability MBA

ALIBABA: Ant Financial and the Microfinance Management arm of China’s Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), China’s largest and most influential non-governmental organization that specializes in poverty alleviation, have reached a strategic co-operation agreement to expand a model that takes targeted measures to help people lift themselves out of poverty with the aid of the internet and now blockchain tech to more than 300 national and provincial counties within three years.

BLOCKCHAIN.com In an exclusive report by Andrew Quentson at Coin Journal – Ant Financial, the online payments affiliate of Alibaba and the world’s second most valuable private technology company with a market cap of more than $60 billion, have announced they are rolling out Blockchain technology for payments.The technology will be first applied to Alipay’s donation platform to improve transparency and provide a trust mechanism with each payment and spending of donations recorded on the Blockchain.Quentson reports:

Unlike America’s internet giants of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, the Chinese equivalent have begun exploring and investing in blockchain technology. Baidu, China’s google, invested in Circle, one of the biggest bitcoin companies. Tencent, owners of Wechat, joined a financial blockchain consortium with 30 other finance and tech firms and Ping An Bank, one of China’s financial conglomerates, joined R3.

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Three Small Economies Where Land Title Could Use Blockchain to ...

Observer-Oct 5, 2016

... these places may have a chance to leapfrog the developed world's old fashioned databases ... An immutable record of titles on a blockchain has certain advantages over a paper ... Land is a financial source, he explained.

9 things to know about blockchain in healthcare

Becker's Hospital Review-Oct 3, 2016

Blockchain is largely used the in financial industry, and the industry is ... Blockchain will leap frogpopulation health by providing trust where ...

Blockchain: Could it make interoperability issues a thing of the past?

Health IT Central-Oct 5, 2016

The younger sister to bitcoin - and once the domain of the financial ... “Blockchain will leap-frog population health by providing trust where none ...

the sharing revolution

Bangkok Post-Oct 5, 2016

Some of its backers even claim it could leapfrog traditional financial ... startup from South America, Democracy Earth, believes Blockchain could ...

Leveraging Financial Technology for the Underbanked

International Monetary Fund-Sep 19, 2016

Furusawa said financial inclusion is one key for promoting strong and stable ... example, using financial technology to leapfrog traditional banking systems ... through the use of digital currencies and blockchain technology.

Imagining a Cashless World

The New Yorker-Oct 2, 2016

... cell phones, mobile payments have begun to leapfrog over paper currency. ... The Swedish financial industry realized that fee-inclusive transaction ... has recently joined many of its peers in looking at blockchain technology.

China's Internet Giant to Roll Out Blockchain Tech for Payments

CoinJournal (blog)-Jul 11, 2016

Ant Financial, the online payments affiliate of Alibaba and the world's ...blockc

9 things to know about blockchain in healthcare

8 blockchain healthcare startups to know
How bitcoin's sister technology could change the future of healthcare
Bank of Tokyo, IBM partner to pilot blockchain technology

the sharing revolution

Bangkok Post-Oct 5, 2016

Some of its backers even claim it could leapfrog traditional financial ... startup from South America, Democracy Earth, believes Blockchain could ...
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Leveraging Financial Technology for the Underbanked

International Monetary Fund-Sep 19, 2016

Furusawa said financial inclusion is one key for promoting strong and stable ... example, using financial technology to leapfrog traditional banking systems ... through the use of digital currencies and blockchain technology.
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Imagining a Cashless World The New Yorker-Oct 2, 2016

... cell phones, mobile payments have begun to leapfrog over paper currency. ... The Swedish financial industry realized that fee-inclusive transaction ... has recently joined many of its peers in looking at blockchain technology.
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China's Internet Giant to Roll Out Blockchain Tech for Payments

CoinJournal (blog)-Jul 11, 2016

Ant Financial, the online payments affiliate of Alibaba and the world's ...blockchain tech and the internet may allow the country to leapfrog the ...
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Regional investors must support start-ups, says Dubai Future ...

ArabianBusiness.com-Oct 3, 2016

... Media City, and the Dubai International Finance Centre, Al Aleeli adds, helped ... to oversee the future sports sector; and the Global Blockchain Council, ... on imported technology and leapfrog foreign competitors in strategic ...
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Drilling for New Sources of Growth

strategy+business (registration) (blog)-Sep 12, 2016

The second is using digitization to leapfrog over the early stages of economic ... not just of finance and government concerns, but also of the relevant business, ... GCC leaders can also adopt blockchain, a recently developed ...

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In India, the competition is against cash, says PayPal's India head ...

Forbes India-Sep 20, 2016

We're doing it in such a way that we're not sharing your financial ... There, a disruption that I believe could occur is that India could leapfrog, just as we ... take on rivals like Alipay (launched by China's Alibaba Group in 2004), ...
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Africa's big banks are betting on fintech startups and bitcoin to beat ...

Quartz-Feb 18, 2016

The way mobile leapfrogged fixed lines communications in Africa, blockchain willleapfrog a lot of the financial infrastructure that exists today.”.
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Asia fintech deals near US$10b amid mega funding in China

South China Morning Post-Aug 25, 2016

That oversized financing round by Ant, which operates Chinese online payment platform Alipay, became the world's largest single private ...
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MIT's Brian Forde: "Companies Will Be Disrupted the Most by Public ...

Bitcoin Magazine-Jun 15, 2016

The Exponential Finance 2016 conference, organized by Singularity ... stated thatfinancial blockchain applications will be measured in the trillions. ... for the developing world to “leapfrog” to the forefront of innovation.
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The World's Economies Are Learning to Share

STRATFOR-Aug 25, 2016

In the financial, banking and lending services sectors, however, P2P will bring a sea ... Already, technology known as the blockchain, which harnesses idle ... in aggregate, leading to a leapfrog effect with new technologies.
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Blockchain applications for healthcare

CIO-Mar 17, 2016

Blockchain will leap frog population health by providing trust where ... to patient records by directly linking information to clinical and financial ...
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Fintech Funding Breaks All Records

CryptoCoinsNews-Aug 17, 2016

... now mainstream or on the verge of being mainstream, Ant Financial, an affiliate ... to bypass the banking sector and leapfrog their economies.
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Dubai's Global Blockchain Council Unveils First Pilot Projects

CoinDesk-May 30, 2016

Dubai's Global Blockchain Council (GBC), a public-private initiative ... "We believe this is going to be a leapfrog in the adoption of the technology. ... VP of strategy at the government-administered financial free zone, the Dubai ...
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India's fintech revolution is primed to put banks out of business

TechCrunch

https://blockchainedu.org/swarm/     http://dapps.ethercasts.com 

this note from superb jobenomics newsletter

blockchain technology provides a means for people to share reliable and tamper-proof lists of information known as distributed ledgers.

On 31 May 2016, a 31-member group launched the Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium that will collaborate on the creation of group-wide blockchain projects focused on the development of a global securities trade platform and services for offering credit, digital asset registry and invoice management.
Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium consists of Tencent, owners of WeChat that has more than
760 million users; Ping An Bank, one of China’s biggest government-owned financial conglomerates;
and 29 other notable Chinese and international finance and tech firms.
In July 2016, Alibaba’s Ant Financial and the Microfinance Management arm of China’s Foundation for
Poverty Alleviation concluded an agreement to jointly help lift people lift out of poverty with the aid of
the internet and blockchains to more than 300 national and provincial counties by 2020. Donors on
Alibaba’s “Ant Love” charity platform will be able to track transaction histories and gain a clearer
understanding of how their donations are used.35 36 37
35 Coindesk, Blockchain Startup Circle Raises $60 Million Amid China Expansion, 23 June 2016,
http://www.coindesk.com/circle-china-60million-series-d/, and 31 Chinese Firms Form Financial Blockchain Consortium,
24 June 2016, http://www.coindesk.com/financial-blockchain-shenzhen-consortium-launch/
36 Blockchain News, China’s Internet Behemoth Alibaba to Roll Out Blockchain Tech for Payments, 12 July 2016,
http://www.the-blockchain.com/2016/07/12/chinas-internet-behemoth-alibaba-roll-blockchain-tech-payments/
37 Circle, https://www.circle.com/en/about, and https://www.circle.com/en
Page 14 China’s Digital Economy Quest 18 October 2016

Unlike America’s digital giants, blockchain technology is being aggressively pursued by China network and financial technology (fintech) giants, such as Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba. These fintech pioneersalready have more clients and payments systems than the entire, predominantly government-owned, Chinese banking system, and are using NTR technology, systems and processes to create new Chinesedominated global banking system.
In June 2016, Baidu, China’s Google, invested $60 million in the U.S.-based Circle Internet Financial to expand in China using Circle’s proprietary bitcoin blockchain and artificial technology that allows
Chinese clients to access a highly-secured money transfer and payment network. Circle’s technology
allows customers to sign up via email or text, snap a picture of their debit card, credit card or bank
account to pay or get paid instantly at no charge without limits on how much they send, receive or cash out. Circle China has been created as an independent company with local investors to capitalize on China’s masses that are comfortable with social media payments and money transfer.

Implementation of blockchain technology in China will be much different from the Western approach
of employing blockchains from within the banking system. China intends to utilize fintech industries,
like those described above, to push technology into government-controlled institutions. To do so, the
Chinese government has instituted a half-way house, called the China Ledger Alliance (aka
ChinaLedger), which will be managed by a non-profit research institution (Wanxiang Blockchain Labs).
ChinaLedger is currently an alliance of a dozen regional commodity exchanges, equity exchanges and
financial asset exchanges with the aim of creating an open source blockchain protocol. Numerous
leading Western blockchain and network technology experts are participating as key members of
ChinaLedger’s “advisory” counsels. As reported by China Daily, the leading English-language news
organization in China, blockchain technology will be used in China's fledgling social security system that
currently has $285 billion under management (the United States Social Security Trust Fund is $2.8
trillion) but increasing at a rate of 25% per year.38
According to Citigroup, “financial-technology companies in China have passed a ‘tipping point’ in
disrupting the banking industry owing to their surging number of customers….Chinese fintech firms
have now gained considerable market share in e-commerce and third-party payments, and are faster
than lenders in offering alternatives to traditional banking services”. 39 According to The Wall Street
Journal, “the future of banking is in China”, namely with tech companies that “use internet payment
systems as a wedge into an array of money-management services”. 40

Brand Reality

This 3rd curriculum launched (1999 triple special issue of journal of Marketing Management)
-all the most costly mistakes oi 20th C mass media in failing to value the Emotional Intelligence and LoveQ of life critical service sectors. When this journal's research was presented at Harvard Business School - the response was this may be correct but it would never get any research budgets in USA. You have to ask yourself what curricula would never get research budgets on the 2000s in USA if you wish to empower millennials to be the sustainability generation. Clue the origin of the MBA was the same big banking mindsets as led the world';s financial system to teeter on the brink of collapse for all of millennials lives to date.

First curriculum of World Class Brands (est 1988 when Norman Macrae retired from The Economist)
-the greatest maths mistake in the world is the brand valuation algorithm recently invented by the  tangible accounting monopoly- in what can only be called a direction geared to 21st c slavemaking the accounting monopoly say that because you cant own people , training of employees  is always a cost while buying machines is an investment; this assumption exponentially destroys all roles people have to guard safety responsibilities of market sector -  as well as de-energising service teams, causing all the least trustworthy of emotions to fester in franchises (let alone community/government run social services and education , even policing) where people are needed to  serve customers 24/7 ....

http://hackeducation.com/2016/04/07/blockchain-education-guide 

Sony is one company looking to take advantage of the blockchain, technology that underpins cyptocurrency bitcoin, after the Japanese company announced plans to build a centralized platform for educational assessment and testing scores.

The Sony Global Education division of the company has developed technology that uses the blockchain to house educational data that can be securely shared with other services and third parties. Sony said it believes it could “realize an entirely new infrastructure system” with this technology, which it described as having the potential to be a central system for candidates and their test results, much like a universal education ID or a more official version of resume sites like LinkedIn.

The company explained more in a press announcement:

For example, after taking an examination to demonstrate his or her academic proficiency level, an individual could direct the testing organization to share the test results with one or more third-party evaluating organizations. This would be a first if implemented on a system-wide basis.

Sony said it hopes that the potential of its platform will attract educational institutions and other sources of learning to take part and add further value to the concept. For example, securing the participation of universities and high schools — which may or may not be among Sony’s targets right now — would mean candidates school and graduation records are baked into their profile and accessible to third parties, such as when applying for jobs or further education. Sony added, also, that the technology could be applied to medical care, the environment, energy and other areas beyond education.

This is very much a concept at this point, with the company estimating that it won’t begin development of this “new educational infrastructure” until 2017. When it does get started, it plans to initially integrate its own ‘Global Math Challenge’ — a test that has so far been taken by over 150,000 people from over 80 countries worldwide — and other Sony education initiatives. But the broader goal is fascinating, a platform for sharing your qualification and educational history.