Blockchain cities

By 2020, the Dubai City Government aims to become the world’s first Blockchain city. The Smart City office of Dubai had more than 20 active blockchain projects, albeit most of them leveraging private chains. A growing number of cities around the world are exploring the use of blockchain for things like liquid democracy, land registries, providing social services to the homeless, financing municipal infrastructure, and empowering trustless, decentralized, and seamless access to public and private mobility services. In this debate club-style roundtable, we'll have an open discussion about the emerging use cases for blockchain in cities, discuss how to help cities overcome the information asymmetry regarding how to fund, build, and support blockchain solutions and explore the role of blockchain convergence with other emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and big data to provide a more ambitious yet democratized and humanized, smart city of the future.