Developing Large Scale B2B Blockchain Architectures for Global Trade Lane: Are the design principles derived based on the upscaling of the Internet applicable for upscaling global blockchain-enabled infrastructures?

Blockchain technologies offer new ways of organizing information architectures for information sharing amongst a multitude of agents in complex socio-technical systems. However, transferring the experience gained with blockchain from the crypotocurrency domain to business-to-business (B2B) setting is challenging and some of the blockchain...

Aligning stakeholder interests, governance requirements and blockchain design in business and government information sharing

Governance requirements for systems supporting information sharing be-tween businesses and government organisations (B&G) are determined by a high variety of stakeholders with often conflicting interests. These conflict-ing interests can hamper the introduction and scaling-up of ICT-innovations that change their roles and authorities. We...

From requirements to a research agenda for governments governing reuse of critical raw materials in the circular economy

Governmental organisations use a diversity of policy instruments for sustainability goals. In the field of materials, they aim to advance the reuse of materials on the one hand. On the other hand, they also want to control critical raw materials (CRMs) to protect society against scarcity. Information sharing is required to monitor for both...