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European Commission Backed Blockchain Organisation INATBA Joins WEF COVID Action Platform to Address Global Challenges

The Brussels-based International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) has joined the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform which brings together the World Health Organization (WHO), corporate CEOs and top experts from leading global organisations to coordinate multi-stakeholder contributions into the fight to combat the global spread of coronavirus.

According to a post from INATBA director Marc Taverner:

“This is an excellent example of how INATBA’s members collaborate and leverage their combined skills and expertise from multiple sectors to support public-private efforts to address the diverse set of challenges facing governments, business and society today.”

“During this unprecedented period of global turbulence, INATBA is proud to lead an ecosystem that is capable of innovating at high speed and leveraging emerging technologies such as blockchain to improve the global systems and services that people need to use and trust every day.”

“INATBA will continue to work hard to support and represent our members as we all adapt to the rapidly evolving global pandemic and its consequences. To this end, our team are exploring new and innovative models of operation which reflect our global circumstances.”

 

Members of INATBA include Siemens, Ripple Labs, Swift, L’Oreal, IBM Belgium, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Deutsche Börse, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, Consensys, Bbva, And many others.

Richard Kasteleinhttps://www.the-blockchain.com
In his 20s, he sailed around the world on small yachts and wrote a series of travel articles called, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas' travelling by hitching rides on yachts (1989) in major travel and yachting publications. He currently lives in Groningen, the Netherlands where he has set down his anchor to raise a family and write. Founder and publisher of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015) and director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He has written over 2500 articles on Blockchain technology and startups at Blockchain News and has also published in Harvard Business Review, Venturebeat, Wired, The Guardian and a number of other publications. Kastelein has an Honorary Ph.D. and is Chair Professor of Blockchain at China's first blockchain University in Nanchang at the Jiangxi Ahead Institute software and Technology. He has over a half a decade experience judging and rewarding some 1000+ innovation projects as an EU expert for the European Commission's SME Instrument programme as a startup assessor and as a startup judge for the UK government's Innovate UK division. Kastelein has spoken (keynotes & panels) on Blockchain technology at over 50 events in 30+ cities.
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