Names of group members: Tran Khanh Linh Nguyen (461345) – HBO ICT TI Samad Shaikh (444629) – HBO ICT SE Jeroen Stol (453483) – HBO ICT ITSM Jelle van der Weijden (440265) – International Business Dylan Severs (468038) – International Business Jarno van Leeuwen (463788) – Business Administration Milan Kok (469346) – Business Administration Due to the increasing digitalization in the 21st century, the phenomenon to only publish scientific articles online is becoming more common. The debate on the consolidating publishing industry has been arising in the last years due to the high-profit margins that the big publishing companies are earning (Larivière, Haustein, & Mongeon, 2015). After analysing roughly 45 million papers over the period 1973 –2013, research proofs that the academic publishing industry is shifting to an oligopoly with a few publishers who publish over 50% of all published papers (Larivière, Haustein, & Mongeon, 2015). Not only do these big publishers earn revenues from the backs of writers, sometimes they also possess the copyrights of the published articles. Since the introduction of the open-access movement, it is becoming more common for publishers to request the execution of the authors ' copyright, which will be claimed by the publisher after the publication of the article (RUG, 2021). As this movement is influencing the market, more writers are considering other options. Although some writers can accept that the only important factor of publishing papers is the increasing h-index, others prefer lucrative writing and maintaining the copyrights of their publications. To stimulate that the copyrights and earnings stay with the author of the publication, our client asked us to develop BlockPub.
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Purpose: The main purpose of this thesis to explore the possible application of blockchain technology in solving issues and concerns of members and stakeholders in multi-stakeholder cooperatives, which prevent effective collaboration in governance.Design: This study is performed using an extensive literature study on blockchain technology, relevant business cases solving issues and concerns comparable to these in multi-stakeholder cooperatives and six semi-structured interviews with blockchain experts, using the business case of multi-stakeholder cooperative Gebiedscoöperatie Westerkwartier.Findings: Findings reveal blockchain-based solutions can contribute to solving existing issues and concerns in multi-stakeholder cooperatives, by implementing its main characteristics: creating transparency, immutability and distributed consensus. This results in increased trust, increased efficiency and accuracy in decision-making, decreased administrative costs due to self-executable smart contracts and enables product traceability in supply chains. However, information is retained in supply chains, preventing blockchain from reaching its full potential. In addition, smart contracts are not legally binding in all countries yet and blockchain, as most technologies, is subject to human or technical error.Value: Overall, this study contributes to understanding issues and concerns existing in multistakeholder cooperatives and the potential application and benefit of blockchain technology to solve existing issues preventing effective collaboration. Expert and participation: Jan Veuger
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CRYPTOPOLIS is a project supported by EU which focuses on the financial management knowledge of teachers and the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency has shown to be a vital and rapidly growing component in today’s digital economy therefore there is a need to include not just financial but also crypto literacy into the schools. Beside multiple investors and traders the market is attracting an increasing number of young individuals, viewing it as an easy way to make money. A large pool of teenagers and young adults want to hop on this train, but a lack of cryptocurrency literacy, as well as financial literacy in general amongst youth, together with their inexperience with investing makes them even more vulnerable to an already high-risk investment.Therefore, we aim to increase the capacity and readiness of secondary schools and higher educational institutions to manage an effective shift towards digital education in the field of crypto and financial literacy. The project will develop the purposeful use of digital technologies in financial and crypto education for teaching, learning, assessment and engagement.
