We are extremely proud to announce our Triple AI Podcast is launching this Wednesday with the amazing Blockchain Queen, Dr Shermin Voshmgir. In this episode, our CEO and co-founder, Dr Shima Beigi, author of Mindful Smart Cities, speaks with Shermin about the future of tokenisation and their application in smart cities and the new edition of Shermin's book Token Economy. This episode will be made available soon on our platforms.
Welcome to the first episode of the Triple AI Podcast. In this space, we connect with the best minds in the world and share with you how we can use the best of the smart city world, the most important scientific works, the best of technologies, best ideas from technology leaders and heroes to transform the lives of urban communities across the globe truly. The Triple AI stands for
Awakened Individuality (AI.0)
Ancient Intelligence (AI.02)
Artificial Intelligence (AI.03)
Who is Shermin Voshmgir?
Shermin Voshmgir is the author of the book Token Economy and the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. Previously, she was the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, which she co-founded and a curator of the infamous TheDAO (Decentralised Investment Fund) in 2016. She is currently setting up a data-driven farm in Portugal with her partner, where they investigate how to tokenise agricultural assets and sustainable ecosystem services such as soil quality or CO2 capture with the support of hardware wallets and sensor technology. She is Austrian with Iranian roots and now lives in Portugal, where she works on the intersection of technology, agriculture, art & social science.
Web3 is a back-end revolution and nothing that makes your webspace more likeable or interactive. Since the novelties happen at the level of the code, it is not easy for the user to grasp what a huge revolution it is. Web3 changes our data structure as it democratises information by giving all users the same level of accessibility. There is full transparency and privacy is preserved thanks to cryptography. There is no centralised entity governing the cryptoworld, no bank issues any currency but bitcoins are regularly exchanged. The whole system works because there is an open-source protocol that everybody must agree with before performing network actions. How are users incentivised to perform the right actions? They are paid with network currency. The democratised code is actually the accepted governance of the blockchain. But who writes the code? Who manages the inner working of the future Web? After finishing her PhD in IT-Management at the Vienna University of Economics, Voshmgir went on to study filmmaking and stage production in Madrid. Her main focus in all these areas is blockchain technology. She is the founder of Blockchain Hub and director of the Research Institute for Crypto Economics at the Vienna University of Economics. She is also advisor of Jolocom, a blockchain based identity protocol and Wunder, a decentralized Art Museum. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Shermin has made her book the Token Economy freely available on Github under Creative Commons – CC BY-NC-SA
“Blockchain is not the only technology needed to decentralise the Web. A multitude of other protocols is required to create a decentralised application. ”
In this article, inspired by the movement of open spaces in cities across the world and resilience theory, I argue that city and human resilience are tightly interlinked, and it is possible to positively influence both through utilising the transformative power of open spaces in novel ways.