Blockchain in Academia: Where do we stand and where do we go?

dc.contributor.author Themistocleous, Marinos
dc.contributor.author Christodoulou, Klitos
dc.contributor.author Iosif, Elias
dc.contributor.author Louca, Soulla
dc.contributor.author Tseas, Demetrios
dc.date.accessioned 2020-01-04T08:17:29Z
dc.date.available 2020-01-04T08:17:29Z
dc.date.issued 2020-01-07
dc.description.abstract Blockchain is an emerging exponential technology that disrupts the existing way of doing business. During the last 10 years its importance has been highlighted and many organizations worldwide have embraced it and developed innovative applications. Even though Blockchain has been adopted by many sectors, Universities are reluctant to propose new academic programs on this field at bachelor and postgraduate level and fail to efficiently educate students on Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Consequently, universities have failed to investigate the business, technical, legal and other aspects of this technology. As a result, we have the paradox where industry and economy would like to experiment and adopt Blockchain solutions but there is a lack of people with appropriate and adequate skills to work on these solutions. Obviously, this holds back the adoption and the widespread of this technology and currently there are problems in scaling up Blockchain technology. The goal of this paper is to explore the area of Blockchain education and training and propose the structure of a master program that can be used as a model. In doing so, we expand the body of knowledge and we shed light to an important area with limited available information and use cases.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2020.656
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-3-3
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64398
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Blockchain Cases and Innovations
dc.subject academia
dc.subject blockchain
dc.subject programme
dc.title Blockchain in Academia: Where do we stand and where do we go?
dc.type Conference Paper
dc.type.dcmi Text
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