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Just a few days ago, I was involved in an academic discussion about a unified African Currency, and today, I come across the news that ECOWAS has decided to come up with a unified currency called ECO. ECOWAS, or The Economic Community of West African States, for those of you not aware of African Politics, is an economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Read more

I have been traveling all over South East Asia for the last few months. When Facebook officially announced Libra, I was in Hong Kong. The buzz in Hong Kong was huge. All of a sudden, every meeting I attended had just one topic of conversation - Libra. Quite frustrating, when you are trying to talk about your own product. Read more

Bitcoin is poised to move beyond $10,000. At the time of writing, it currently sits at $9,922, and has already surpassed $10,000 on Chinese exchanges. Its record high is $19,666. Bitcoin is currently at its highest price since May 2018.  Read more:   http://bit.ly/2xg1MEn

Many of the merging economies are agrarian and in need of technology influx in agriculture. One of the emerging technology that can revolutionize agriculture is IoT. In order to understand the application of IoT in agriculture, we can look at some of the use cases of IoT. Read more

In all the hype about Blockchain, perhaps the most important emerging technology has taken a backseat, as far as hype goes. It is still working hard at achieving its goal of churning out data that can be trusted. Read more

Social media giant Facebook may be about to drop the secrecy surrounding its in-the-works cryptocurrency. According to a report from  The Information  on Wednesday, Facebook is poised to unveil the token – reportedly called GlobalCoin – to the world later in June.  Read more

If Facebook wants to become a nation, they are on the right track. What if they purchased an island from a poverty-stricken Caribbean country and established an independent nation? They have the resources to make it happen. But, they don't need to. Libra is taking them to a place from where they could become the next United Nations (with no real legal power, but with financial and social influence over most of the civilized world).  Read more : http://bit.ly/2XmnWmR

Smart cities can be considered a complex, layered application of technology the like of which has never been seen before. It is as complex as a human neuron system. Smart City, however, has never been defined completely. What is a smart city? What exactly does it mean in terms of shift of the functioning? Read more

It’s so unusual to come across an exceptional blend like Blockchain and the IoT. The question that comes up is - how do blockchain and the internet of things work? How are they compatible? Read more