Afforded by block technologies use cases can range from improving the supply chain helping Small Businesses in agriculture cleaning up the costly and efficient cost for remittances and even Land Registry those are just a few uses and there are still new cases being developed every day so lets take a look at taipei taiwan to dive a little deeper into all of these fascinating and essential uses of technology were now joined by ali b. G. Managing partner with the block chain Founders Fund and consultant to the United Nations so ali 1st off lets touch on relief for the unbanked facebook has made news recently with their announcement of libra their new crypto currency but one of the big holes in the project is the fact that you will need a bank account to actually get involved in the crypto currency what do you make of that issue with libra and why is the banking the unbanked such a crucial topic in the world of blocking. Absolutely and thats a great question and one of the Key Properties o
All around the world and this is one of the problems related to also the case. Which you know make facebook have this as a requirement and as of now that just seems to be creating issues and leaving a major part of the population. And sticking with facebook and labor for many here in the liberal white paper there were references to their blog chain promoting what theyre calling an open identity standard essentially the idea behind identity in this regard is making a way for users to be able to have a fully verifiable digital version of identification that would work throughout the internet sort of walk us through how this technology would work and the specific benefits of this kind of identity. One of the key problems. So with this emergence and as we moved over to doing more and more online and having more of our lives online has been this disconnect essentially between our physical lives our physical identity and being able to prove you know flawlessly that this is the same individua
1985 but had been dormant 2002, before its reestablishment in the 2019 National Defense authorization act. This hearing is an hour and 30 minutes. [indistinct conversations] limiting welcome to order. Senator van hollen, if you would like to make your remarks, now is a good time. Thank you. I would like to introduce the nominee for the National Reconnaissance office known as nro. Mr. Chairman, while i cannot say that i am happy to see mr. Scalise leave his current duties in the state of maryland for nasa, i can say with great confidence that the nro would be very fortunate to have him as their director. Since march 2012, he has served nasa goddardf Space Flight Center in agreement greenbelt maryland. We are part of the work he has been doing. Mr. Scalise has worked in a variety of positions at goddard and before that at n. A. S. A. Headquarters. Prior to joining n. A. S. A. In 1987, he served as an officer in the navy working and classified programs and worked as civilian in the Defens
We begin with a cup of joe starbucks was launched almost 50 years ago with one store in seattle. Today the brand has 30,000 stores around the globe, serving 100 million customers a week so, how does a company of this size and scale continue to innovate and stay nimble brewing up change is this weeks cover story and our kate rogers has more reporter inside this 20,000squarefoot facility at its headquarters in seattle, starbucks is trying something a bit different. The coffee giant is acting more like a startup than a 48yearold Global Corporation this is the trier center, where starbucks projects are going from idea to action in 100 days flat. We now have 30,000 stores around the world serving 100 million customers a week and with scale and complexity, it can become the enemy of speed. And so, this was all about how we transform the way we work at starbucks so that we can accelerate the velocity of innovation. Reporter employees at the companys headquarters are able to pitch ideas via a
The country been better position to neutralize sanctions without making concessions to the imposers of those sanctions, or is it disappointed by the Organization Still scrambling to find new ways so as to cushion the blow of cruel sanctions . Meanwhile, what are tehrans obstacles to benefit fully from its sco membership . These and more on this edition of iran today. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was originally formed by beijing and moscow as a counterweight to the United States influence. The scos primary goal is to neutralize common threats to the National Security and territorial integrity of Member States from separatis and radical movements. But to rule out the possibility of any of economic benefits is just jumping to conclusions. Although the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formed as a result of security concerns, the concept of security itself has expanded over time to cover other areas not traditionally considered as security related ones. Today security is not m