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Introduction On May 22nd 2024, I was please to be able to attend an industry roundtable looking at tokenizing the UK’s digital economy. This meeting (agenda and main areas for discussion above) was held on an “interesting” and very wet day in the Palace of Westminster (the beginning of the meeting was delayed and then […]

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain Technologies : Insights from a ...

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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/fZirmwarM0E) As businesses get more sizable and more mature they now, inevitably accrete more and more software systems. This estate expansion leads not only to greater complexity and expense for the enterprise, but also to fragmentation, inconsistency and siloing of business processes. Because platform rationalisation and system decommissioning never […]

Software system rationalisation: How to get better outcomes through stronger ...

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FAIR data principles adoption are critical for all research data. Pleased to have collaborated with Gerd Blanke & Thomas Doerner on discussing the importance of FAIR to Chemical data #fairdata #lifescience. For more details see our article on Zenodo. So far, chemical data such as chemical structures and chemical reactions and their associated data and metadata has not been a […]

Chemical Data in Life Sciences R&D and the FAIR Principles

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Since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a huge upsurge in the demand for what is being called “fast science”. Groups around the world are clamoring for data and information on the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease; not surprisingly they want it as fast as possible. This has led to unprecedented […]

Fast Science, Effective Collaboration and the Need for Trust

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