Ideas

Top Emerging Tech Every CIO Should Watch for in 2017

The risk of becoming irrelevant has never been greater. It’s the role of chief information officers to look beyond today's solutions and be ready for what lies ahead.

Cybersecurity

Bitcoin and Blockchain Seem More and More like Solutions Looking for a Problem

The bitcoin and blockchain world is in a bit of an investment slump.

Cybersecurity

Blockchain Technology Can Help Save the Lives of Millions of Refugees by Giving Them a Verified Identity

The technology gives refugees the same services as those with “official” identification.

Digital Government

Even the US Military Is Looking at Blockchain Technology—to Secure Nuclear Weapons

Blockchain technology has been slow to gain adoption in non-financial contexts, but it could turn out to have invaluable military applications.

Cybersecurity

Congress Now Has a Caucus Dedicated to Bitcoin and Blockchain

The role of the caucus is to get other legislators up to speed on a subject in the hopes of formulating future laws that affect that niche.

Emerging Tech

HHS Considers Climbing on the Blockchain Bandwagon

Know how blockchain could be used in health care? HHS wants your input.

Digital Government

How Blockchain Technology Can Prevent the Next Financial Crisis, Disrupt Uber and Give Us Control of Our Data

It is essentially a digital distributed ledger anyone on the internet can access.

Cybersecurity

Even US Postal Service Wants to Start Using Blockchain Tech

The technology is a decentralized digital ledger accessible to millions of users and cryptographically secured, making it tamper-proof.