132 research outputs found
The Evaluation of Notary Studies Globally: Bibliometric Analysis
This study aims to investigate research trends on notarial topics in published documents globally, including identifying the position of Indonesian research in this context and issues that require further exploration in this discipline. This research method involves collecting data on notary publications from various indexed journal sources in the Scopus database. Scopus was chosen because it is a popular and trusted indexer. This data was then analyzed bibliometrically to identify trends in the number of publications, the most prolific authors, and documents frequently cited in the notary field, including the research topics discussed. In addition, the position of Indonesian research in international databases is also evaluated. The research findings show that notarization is an important and fast-growing field in the global legal system. Notarial publications have steadily increased in recent years, reflecting the growing interest in the discipline globally. This research also reveals that Indonesia has contributed many publications in notary affairs, but there is still potential for further development. Topics such as digital notarization and smart contracts stand out as areas that require further exploration. This indicates the importance of adapting to technological developments and changes in legal practice. Thus, this research provides a deeper understanding of the urgency and position of the notary in navigating an increasingly complex and globally connected legal era
Digital Management of Competencies in Web 3.0: The C-Box® Approach
Management of competencies is a crucial concern for both learners and workers as well as for training institutions and companies. For the former, it allows users to track and certify the acquired skills to apply for positions; for the latter, it enables better organisation of business processes. However, currently, most software systems for competency management adopted by the industry are either organisation-centric or centralised: that is, they either lock-in students and employees wishing to export their competencies elsewhere, or they require users’ trust and for users to give up privacy (to store their personal data) while being prone to faults. In this paper, we propose a user-centric, fully decentralised competency management system enabling verifiable, secure, and robust management of competencies digitalised as Open Badges via notarization on a public blockchain. This way, whoever acquires the competence or achievement retains full control over it and can disclose his/her own digital certifications only when needed and to the extent required, migrate them across storage platforms, and let anyone verify the integrity and validity of such certifications independently of any centralised organisation. The proposed solution is based on C-Box®, an existing application for the management of digital competencies that has been improved to fully support models, standards, and technologies of the so-called Web 3.0 vision—a global effort by major web organisations to “give the web back to the people”, pushing for maximum decentralisation of control and user-centric data ownership
Problems of evaluation of digital evidence based on blockchain technologies
Digital evidence is fundamentally different from physical evidence and written evidence. Securing physical evidence is primarily to prevent it from being lost or difficult to obtain in the future.
Compared to traditional evidence, electronic evidence is fragile, easy to change and delete, and difficult to guarantee its authenticity. For example, data on a personal computer may be lost due to misuse, virus attack, etc. During the preparation of the case, the video can be deleted in order to hide the facts. In fact, most electronic evidence is stored in a central database. If the database is unreliable, the validity of the data is not guaranteed. Obviously, how to ensure the authenticity and integrity of digital evidence is very important when storing it
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Blockchain and certificate authority cryptography for an asynchronous on-line public notary system
The true innovation behind the Bitcoin protocol is blockchain technology. Blockchain is the underlying distributed database and encryption technology that enables trustless transactions that can be verified, monitored, and enforced without a central institution. This master’s report presents the core concepts behind blockchain that are concerned with carrying instructions for storage, sharing of non-financial data, including an examination of the byzantine fault tolerant cryptography model.
A literature review describes the types of blockchains, nodes, proof of work, disadvantages, and risks and provides a survey of future applications related to state government records, such as birth certificates, automobile registrations, land deeds, and voting. This review will answer the question: Is it possible for a state government to use blockchain employing trusted nodes given that the nature of blockchain is that of a distributed network of peers accompanied by a public ledger without a central authority?
Finally, the requirements for a specific application case study will be defined and developed. The desired application will be a smart contract to invoke a statutory durable power of attorney using blockchain technology for oneself in case of incapacitation while still living.Electrical and Computer Engineerin
Recordism: A social-scientific prospect of blockchain from social, legal, financial, and technological perspectives
Blockchain has the potential to reform the architecture of cyberspace and
transform the storage, circulation and exchange of information through
decentralization, transparency and de-identification. Meaning that ordinary
participants can become traders, miners, retailers, and customers
simultaneously, breaking the barriers and reducing the information gap between
participants in the community, contributing to the futuristic metaverse with an
open progressive and equal ideology. Such information transformation empowered
by blockchain also profoundly impacts our methodological cognition, legal
governance on cyberspace and financial and technological development.
This study explores the main question: what are the implications of the
blockchain-driven information revolution for society and social sciences? In
order to answer this main question, this paper chooses four perspectives, which
are methodological, legal, financial and technical. By analysis of these four
perspectives, this paper is expected to provide a more comprehensive analysis
of the blockchain-driven impact on society, social sciences, and technology to
contribute to current scholarships. Additionally, regarding blockchain as an
innovative methodological cognition, it grows on top of other technologies
while helping advance other technologies. This paper concludes that although
there are few frictions between blockchain and current social architecture,
blockchain is so much more than the technology itself, that can be a
representative of the community, acting as the source of trust, watcher of
governance, law enforcer for virtual activities, and an incubator for future
technologies
Exploring the rise of blockchain technology: Towards distributed collaborative organizations
© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are playing an increasingly important role for organizations that seek to build social and solidarity-based finance. Blockchain technology has emerged as a potential disruptor for the financial industry. However, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology may help develop organizations that seek to build social and solidarity-based finance
Advances in Information Security and Privacy
With the recent pandemic emergency, many people are spending their days in smart working and have increased their use of digital resources for both work and entertainment. The result is that the amount of digital information handled online is dramatically increased, and we can observe a significant increase in the number of attacks, breaches, and hacks. This Special Issue aims to establish the state of the art in protecting information by mitigating information risks. This objective is reached by presenting both surveys on specific topics and original approaches and solutions to specific problems. In total, 16 papers have been published in this Special Issue
Blockchain Wills
Blockchain technology has the potential to radically alter the way that people have executed wills for centuries. This Article makes two principal claims--one descriptive and the other normative. Descriptively, this Article suggests that traditional wills formalities have been relaxed to the point that they no longer serve the cautionary, protective, evidentiary, and channeling functions that scholars have used to justify strict compliance with wills formalities. Widespread use of digital technology in everyday communications has led to several notable cases in which individuals have attempted to execute wills electronically. These wills have had a mixed reception. Four states currently recognize electronic wills. The Uniform Law Commission approved a Uniform Electronic Wills Act in July 2019, so it is likely that even more states will permit these documents. This Article identifies some of the weaknesses in existing state statutes and the model law and considers how technology can address those problems.
This Article explores how blockchain, the open-source technology underlying cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, could be harnessed to create a distributed ledger of wills that would maintain a reliable record of a testator\u27s desires for the post-mortem distribution of estate assets. These blockchain instruments easily could qualify as wills under existing substantial compliance doctrine or the Uniform Probate Code\u27s harmless error rule. Blockchain wills would serve the true purpose of wills formalities--which is to authenticate a document as the one executed by the testator with the intention of having it serve as the binding directive for the distribution of her property. By uniting blockchain technology with the innovations of the best aspects of electronic wills legislation, a blockchain will could serve as a reliable, authentic, and secure record of a decedent\u27s last wishes for disposition of her property.
This Article\u27s account has important implications for the legal profession. As financial institutions and governments have moved to develop blockchain-based solutions for the delivery of services, lawyers have lagged behind. In some legal circles, attorneys have become interested in “smart contracts” and the possibility of using blockchain to create a more accurate record of real property deeds. But most lawyers have not yet invested the requisite time and energy needed to understand how blockchain works and to develop systems that would use the technology effectively. By demonstrating how blockchain could make wills cheaper to prepare and less susceptible to tampering, this Article also points to multiple other uses for blockchain in the legal profession, including authentication of chain of ownership, record-keeping, and drafting of all kinds. Even though lawyers have been slow to harness blockchain\u27s potential, the technology holds the promise to transform the practice of law into a form that will be unrecognizable to today\u27s lawyer
Integration of ontologies with decentralized autonomous organizations development: A systematic literature review
This paper presents a systematic literature review of the integration of ontologies into the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) development process. The review extracted data from 34 primary studies dealing with ontologies in the blockchain domain. DAO has become a key concept for the development of blockchain-based decentralized software systems. DAOs are seen as a positive alternative for organizations interested in the adoption of decentralized, reliable and transparent governance, as well as attracting the interest of academic research. However, there is no common understanding or generally accepted formal definition of a DAO, and the guidelines that provide support for the adoption and development of DAOs are limited to a few key references that lack the computational semantics needed to enable their automated validation, simulation or execution. Thus, the objective of this paper is to provide an unbiased and up-to-date review related to the integration of ontologies within DAOs which helps to identify new research opportunities and take advantage of this integration from a blockchain-based decentralized perspective
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