- Overview
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This book explores blockchain governance, which can be established in a way that utilizes the advantages of blockchain technology: openness, autonomy and transparency.
- Book Intro
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Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology by which data cannot be forged or modified once they are recorded. It is a distributed trust network which is severed from a centralized system. Blockchain technology is capable of establishing a smart contract where mediator's authority and exclusiveness is minimized and security is ensured. In addition, the application of blockchain technology in various fields in society can contribute to a more transparent and trusting society. Blockchain governance uses a smart, evolved algorithm which started off from Internet governance. This book explores blockchain governance, which can be established in a way that utilizes the advantages of blockchain technology: openness, autonomy and transparency.
While cryptocurrencies pursue decentralization, one must beware of the negative side of blockchain, which is that its network can be controlled by any individual or group with sufficient computing power.
This book makes the following claims: "The history of man has evolved as the power few royals and aristocrats is distributed and shared by more people. Now in the era of democracy, the participation of people has increased significantly. However, as governments grow in size, non-symmetry between information and authority increases, democracy is retreating. Therefore, in order to establish true democracy, a horizontal governance system should be implemented by a new government which introduces and apply distributed and autonomous technologies such as blockchain." In other words, introducing network governance to improve public value is a way to bring innovation.
Implications of blockchain to Individuals and Society
01 Digital governance
02 Birth of blockchain
03 Blockchain platform
04 Distributed autonomous organizations
05 Blockchain and democracy
06 Block chain and public service
07 Regulations of blockchain
08 Blockchain government
09 Blockchain and law
10 Principles of blockchain governance
- About the Author
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Kim Daeho
Kim Daeho (M) is a professor of media information at Inha University, and he has previously undertaken the positions of senior researcher at the Korea Communications Commission, researcher at the Korea Information Society Development Institute, chairman of the Korea Media Management Association, research director at the Korean Association for Broadcasting & Telecommunication Studies and the Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies, and non-executive director of the Korea Internet & Security Agency, Korea Broadcast Advertising Corporation, KT and SBS. He was also selected as the leading humanities and social science scholar by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Books Kim has written include Shared Economy (2018); The 4th Industrial Revolution (2016); Internet Governance (2015); and Humans, Living in a Super-Connected Society (co-writer, 2015), and he has also published numerous articles in various academic journals.
