Blockchain

Collaboration readiness in Blockchain Coalition

Since the invention of the Internet, our digital infrastructure has been based on centralised servers to which users entrust data and transactions. Whoever wants to make use of online services must trust a third party (such as Facebook, Google, or the bank) to safeguard data security and privacy. 

Blockchain

Blockchain technology can be used to build more sustainable, secure and reliable digital infrastructure. The essence of Blockchain technology is that databases are managed de-centrally in a network, instead of by a central body, as a result of which every participant (node) in the network has a copy of the entire database.

This technology is therefore potentially revolutionary. However, as Blockchain technology is also very complex and is still in its infancy, that potential can only be realised through open collaboration. With open collaboration the knowledge needed to deal with the complexity can be consolidated, and such openness will also facilitate the new decentralised forms of governance that the Blockchain requires. Therefore Blockchain cannot be developed within the walls of a single organisation. So in March 2017, representatives from the public, private and knowledge sectors took the initiative to establish the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, DBC.

Our impact

We are building and validating models to understand how the dynamics of transdisciplinary cross-sector collaborations work. Scientifically this results in conceptual insights on how transdisciplinary cross-sector collaborations work, and change over time, insights that can be transferred in our academic and post-academic education. For society, this results in advices to the investigated coalitions on collaboration practices on the short term and models that can be used by the teams themselves as a tool to monitor and evaluate collaborations on the go. 

See white paper for more information.