The textiles and apparel industry is a major contributor to economic development while at the same time being one of the most polluting industries due to its lengthy supply chain and resource intensive production operations. To address these sustainability challenges, digitalization is seen as one of …

This report relates to the Horizon 2020 project entitled ‘Making City’. The report was conducted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences to the benefit of the Municipality of Groningen and other consortium partners in the Making City project and addresses the legal impediments that may arise when …

With this article, I explore the connections between blockchain technology, coloniality, and decolonial practices. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s thought on the interdependent systems of colonialism, capitalism, and knowledge, as well as more recent work on the coloniality of digital technologies, I argue …

Dit onderzoek gaat over blockchain in de mestketen. De hoofdvraag voor dit onderzoek luidde dan ook: "Wat heeft blockchain de mestketen te bieden?" Dit is een relevant vraagstuk, aangezien er efficiency slag gerealiseerd kan worden en potentiële misstanden voorkomen kunnen worden. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd …

Blockchains draw everything they touch into a market logic. Is resistance possible?Activist and artistic engagements with blockchain technology point to (at least) threedifferent sets of tactics that aim to subvert this affordance of the technology. The firstis part of an accellerationist logic: riding …

In de bouwsector, bekend om zijn hoge mate van specialisatie en gefragmenteerde structuur, spelen uitdagingen met betrekking tot informatieconnectiviteit en betrouwbaarheid van bouwwerkinformatie. Het onderzoek richt zich op het verbeteren van deze aspecten met behulp van Blockchain Technologie gedurende …

This book is a journey through coexisting, emerging or speculated about, types of digital value transfer infrastructures. Using digital value transfer infrastructures as a central case study, this thesis is concerned with unpacking the negotiation processes that shape the governance, design and political …

This paper analyses the performativity of the sociotechnical imaginaries that the online communities interested in blockchain applications (e.g., cryptocurrencies) construct through the memes they share, in the context of a crisis of truth and amid pervasive precarity. These memes adopt a subcultural …

As blockchain and DLTs technology makes its presence felt strongly in many industries like finance and banking, this study investigates the business case for the application to social impact bonds (SIBs). Technological innovation in general, and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in particular, could …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te achterhalen hoe de betrouwbaarheid van informatie in refurbished smartphones kan worden verhoogd en wat de blockchain hierin kan betekenen. Hiervoor is de volgende hoofdvraag opgesteld: Hoe kan de betrouwbaarheid van de productinformatie in refurbished smartphones …