Blockchain Solutions
A public private partner initiative from the Netherlands
Singapore is quickly transforming into one of the most digitized and technology focused nations in South East Asia and in the world. This focus on becoming a Smart Nation, with a digital economy, government and society, also led to the fact that Singapore has increased its attention on blockchain solutions. While the first initiatives mainly have been in the financial technology (FinTech) sector, attention to blockchain solutions and applications in the field of logistics and infrastructure, smart cities, digital health and government services has been on the rise.
What makes us a unique partner?
The Netherlands has proven to be a frontrunner in the field of blockchain with a vibrant and commercially viable ecosystem and a lot of up and running projects, use cases and proof of concepts. The Netherlands is an excellent market for testing, with forward-thinking corporates and government
Singapore has a forward looking government, hosts many regional headquarters of companies embracing blockchain and excels in the thorough implementation of ambitious concepts.
Connected Blockchain Ecosystem
The Dutch blockchain ecosystem is highly strongly interconnected. In working with the PIB partners, Singaporean partners do not only have access to the organizations in this PIB, but they are also just a handshake away from many other potential partners.Together – Innovative - Enterprising
We want to co-create innovative solutions for complex global challenges.Triple Helix
Compared to other leading blockchain communities, the Netherlands is especially doing well with implementation following the so-called “triple helix model” for cooperation, which links blockchain technology to corporates and government.
Why should Singapore choose to work with the Netherlands
In working with Singapore, we hope to build long-term partnerships based on trust, quality and entrepreneurial spirit. An important part of our mission is to work under the motto ‘blockchain for good’: with new business models that include open source innovation, we hope to create solutions that contribute to solving environmental and social challenges, while enabling economic growth. With this cluster we aim to apply blockchain to solve challenges surrounding the following themes financial crime, trust, sustainability and circularity, research and education,and crossborder verifiable credentials.
Developing joint, concrete projects together can help scaling up current blockchain initiatives and create more awareness of the possibilities of blockchain.
Blockchain for Good
The Dutch Blockchain Coalition (DBC) is a joint venture between partners from the government, knowledge institutions and industry. DBC's mission is to advance reliable, robust and socially accepted blockchain applications, create the best possible conditions to allow blockchain applications to arise, and utilise blockchain as a source of trust, welfare, prosperity and security for citizens, companies, institutions and government bodies. For this mission, the DBC is mainly a catalyst and facilitator that activates and connects within a broad public-private network.
Trade missions & activities
This Fall, the upcoming online events and trade missions for 2021 will be listed.
7-11 december 2020 the Netherlands Blockchain Building during Switch
From 7 to 11 December 2020 Asia’s leading technology, innovation and enterprise festival was held in Singapore. The Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) is the one-stop platform where innovation meets enterprise, with access to global startups, investors, corporates, innovation community and ecosystem players.
Openingsvideo in the Netherlands Blockchain Building during Switch
DBC conferentie online
Raymond Knops, Minister of the Interior, on the successful trade mission to Singapore and Marloes Pomp of the Dutch Blockchain Coalition explains the partnership and opportunities of the Partners in International Business program of Blockchain Singapore.
6 – 10 July 2020
East vs West I Blockchain Eco System Building
Marloes Pomp, initiatior & Program Officer for Blockchain & AI and Yi Ming Ng, Founder of Tribe Accelerator, moderator by Gabriel Yang.
Trade mission Singapore, 11-15 November 2019
In November 2019 a high level Dutch delegation will visit Singapore during Fintech Festival/Switch on the subject of digitization, more specifically blockchain and AI. The goal of the mission is to learn from digitization strategies and developments in Singapore and explore collaboration opportunities, build upon existing connections and bring together the blockchain communities and networks from the Netherlands and Singapore.
Between November 11 and 15, the leading Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology (SWITCH) are organised simultaneously. Last year, SFF and Switch received over 57.000 representatives of governments, corporates and research institutions from over 130 countries. This is a huge opportunity to meet potential partners to grow your business.
Please find here the magazine about the results of the Blockchain Trade Innovation Mission Singapore.
Use Cases
Dutch Blockchain Solutions has defined 4 challenges that will be introduced during the SFF/Switch.
Use Case Diplomas and Certifications
Certifications play a key role throughout life. To increase employee and student mobility we focus on 2 use cases that leverage blockchain:
> Student mobility: test that exchange students can successfully verify their credentials between Singapore and The Netherlands
> Employee wallet: test that graduated student can successfully verify their credentials when applying for a professional career role
Use Case Transaction Monitoring
Banks play a vital role as a gatekeeper in today's society and financial markets and have elaborate CDD processes in place. These CDD processes are often a dissatisfier for clients and banks alike. In this context, more structured, refined, multi-party, yet compliant CDD processes like KYC and
AML, are vital in keeping up with the ever modernising and globalising world. Singapore and Dutch authorities and financial sectors face the same challenges in fighting (intern)national fraud and crime. This collaboration aims to share ideas and experiences on multi-party Client Due Diligence processes, look for common ground and lay foundation of an ecosystem for continued dialogue.
Use Case Crossborder Verifiable Creditentials
Develop a global standard for an interoperable, negotiable eBL. This global standard will comply with the guidelines set out by the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and E-Business (UN/CEFACT) pertaining to such standards. We define interoperability as the ability to transfer electronic records in compliance with the MLETR Model Law between various platforms and solutions independent of their native technology.
Use Case Chain of Evidence
Singapore and the Netherlands are exploring a further collaboration that involve the development of a chain of evidence or smart contracts solution. Working together on a joint challenge provides a chance to:
Find mutual interests in the research and development of Blockchain Technology.
Network and exchange knowledge on current or planned Dutch and Singapore blockchain use-cases in the applicable fields
Facilitate government, startups and companies to start innovative blockchain projects, ensuring added value to both Singapore and the Netherlands in the applicable fields
Use Case Healthcare Solution
Deliver a blockchain solution for a Singaporean hospital that optimizes the administrational process between the hospital and insurance companies that pay for the treatments of patients.
Use Case Agri & Food
The Netherlands has the biggest network of Blockchain partners working on food and agri.
The Wageningen University & Research is the leading universities in agricultural sciences and food technology, according to Shanghai ranking
TNO Blockchain has performed extensive research in this sector
Themes
Combat Financial Crime with Emergent Technologies
Disruptive technologies as blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and privacy-preserving technologies created many opportunities for innovation, but also a new threat landscape with high-tech financial crimes, especially on the convergence of finance and cyberspace. As small countries with trade-driven economies, Singapore and the Netherlands are both vulnerable to all kinds of financial crimes. We work together on good practices and joint challenges within and between silos.
Partners Singapore: ECXX, Merkle Science, NTU
Partners in the Netherlands: Ministery of Justice, Security and Defense, ABN AMRO, TNO, HSD, CFLW
Do you want to partner up? Please contact Mark van Staalduinen: Mark.vanStaalduinen@cflw.com
The Trusted Web
The internet brought us many good things, but it has a deep-rooted issue: trust. Trust wasn’t part of the internet’s design. The internet was built to connect computers. Computers do not dream and do not care about power or self-enrichment. Humans do. And therefore, we now suffer fraud, manipulation, and theft on a daily basis. Search engines, social media, and the internet as a whole are not safe and trustworthy. A better, trustworthy internet is what we need.
Our mission is to make trust part of the internet’s DNA with the use of blockchain technology.
The internet becomes The Trusted Web.
Partners in Singapore:
Partners in the Netherlands: WordProof, TrustedWeb
Do you want to partner up? Please contact Frank van Dalen: frank@wordproof.com
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) technology
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is often called the Internet's missing Identity Layer because it links Identities to the content and transactions. Identities that allow you to trust – or not – that content and transactions. And hold the owner of the identity accountable in case of abuse or misinformation.
SSI provides three prerequisite elements that are crucial for personal identities without the drawbacks of control by centralized authorities or corporations:
• Privacy: controlled by the holder
• Secure: protected through cryptology
• Interoperable: based on open standard specifications
Partners in Singapore: Build Blocks Group
Partners in the Netherlands: Speheron, LTO Network, ministerie JV, AMR- Global, Triall
Sustainability/ Circular economy
The devastating effects of climate change urge us to reconsider our ways of production and consumption. A systemic change is required from our current economic model to a circular one. The motivation is compounded by the financial opportunity arising from the circularisation of production and consumption. A systemic change implies the adoption of new infrastructure and rules for value chains. The decentralized and transparent nature of blockchain technology offers the perfect solution.
Partners in Singapore:
Partners in the Netherlands: Kryha
Do you want to partner up? Please contact Alexander Enthoven: Alexander@kryha.io
Research & Education
ICTU and TU Delft want to jointly conduct further research concerning Trusted Web and Anonymous Transparency. The components Compliance by Design (FLINT) in combination with the Request Chat, which is ideal for application in the domain of empathy or Compassion by Design, as we find in the whitepaper of Discipl (Whitepaper Discipl-Moving towards a society that works for everyone) are just a few examples of the building blocks we provide and where we want to do further research.
Partners in Singapore:
Partners uit NL: Ictu
Do you want to partner up? Please contact Youetta de Jager: youetta.dejager@ictu.nl
Crossborder Verifiable Credentials
Develop a global standard for an interoperable, negotiable eBL. This global standard will comply with the guidelines set out by the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and E-Business (UN/CEFACT) pertaining to such standards. We define interoperability as the ability to transfer electronic records in compliance with the MLETR Model Law between various platforms and solutions independent of their native technology.
Partners in Singapore: MPA Singapore, IMDA
Partners uit NL: port of Rotterdam, BlockLab, DBC, 2Token, Spark, Ictu, Ledger Leopold
Do you want to partner up? Please contact:
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Partners
The cluster Dutch Blockchain solutions in Singapore is a public-private partnership and part of the programme ‘Partners for International Business’. The partnership includes the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, which is a government agency with access to a global network of embassies (such as the embassy in Singapore), consulates and Netherlands Business Support Offices. Together with clusters of Dutch businesses and knowledge institutions, as represented here, the Dutch government is developing a three-year action plan for Singapore. The coordination of this cluster is held by the Dutch Blockchain Coalition.
Together with Singaporean counterparts, the Netherlands strives to be an open, inventive and inclusive partner in finding solutions to the various challenges in blockchain solutions.
TNO
TNO is the largest independent applied scientific research organization in the Netherlands. TNO has made a significant investment in blockchain technologies with an emphasis on the following key areas of research and application research; business models and governance, identity and access management, smart contracts interactions and security, performance and scalability, interoperability and standards, blockchain in society; policy, ethics and regulation.
Ledger Leopard
Ledger Leopard is an international company that provides a blockchain platform for developers and companies. Believing every organization must be able to leverage the benefits of blockchain technology with little-to-no experience at all, we offer an API-based blockchain platform to enable developers and organizations to build their own decentralized applications (dApps) right away. We also help organizations explore blockchain technology and deliver custom enterprise-grade decentralized applications (dApps). We have a development team that creates custom blockchain web and mobile applications. We have experience in a variety of fields like: Healthcare, Government, Construction, Identity, Insurance, Asset management and Finance.
Kryha
Kryha’s mission is to help organizations adopt and extract value from distributed ledger technology. Kryha aims to introduce game changing concepts to change industries as a whole. In order to do so we focus on three specific industries - Energy, mobility and Industry 4.0 - and aim to create synergy between them. In these sectors we help organizations identifying new opportunities, research and validate these in experiments and build internal capabilities while doing so.
CFLW Cyber Strategies
Cyberspace creates endless opportunities for innovation, while simultaneously, the global digital transformation poses a new set of security challenges. Founded by Dr Mark van Staalduinen, CFLW Cyber Strategies provide solutions where strategy and technology meet, staying ahead in this cyber-physical and cyber-financial realm. Drawing on CFLW’s long track record, international experience, and technical expertise, we craft the following solutions: Disruption of Dark Web and Virtual Asset Abuse, Strengthen Cyber Security in Emergent Technologies, and Advancing Human Capital by Research and Development. At CFLW Cyber Strategies, we rethink your cyber threats through the eyes of the adversary.
The Dutch security cluster
The Dutch security cluster 'The Hague Security Delta' (HSD) is a network of businesses, governments and knowledge institutions that work together on innovative security solutions and knowledge development. In this network, security issues are discussed and knowledge is shared on cyber security, national and urban security, protection of critical infrastructures, and forensics.
The HSD partners have a common goal: a more secure world, more business activity and more jobs. The core of the security cluster is the HSD Campus, the national innovation centre for security in The Hague. The Dutch security cluster HSD is supported by HSD Office. As an independent organization, HSD Office accelerates collaboration in the Dutch security cluster, connects businesses, governments and knowledge institutions and facilitates knowledge sharing between them.
Port of Rotterdam Authority
The objective of the Port of Rotterdam Authority is to enhance the port’s competitive position as a logistics hub and world-class industrial complex. Not only in terms of size, but also with regard to quality. The Port Authority is therefore leading the transition to sustainable energy and it is committed to digitization in order to make the port, and the supply chain, more efficient. The core tasks of the Port Authority are to develop, manage and exploit the port in a sustainable way and to deliver speedy and safe service for shipping.
By enabling a supply chain management ecosystem with a digital foundation in place, the Port Authority can capture, analyse, integrate, easily access, and interpret high quality, real-time data that fuels process automation, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and robotics, the technologies that will soon provide us means to truly connect the physical with the financial supply chain.
UNL
The UNL protocol divides the Earth’s surface and indoors spaces into a grid of programmable cells (UNL cells) on the blockchain and univocally labels each one with a unique virtual location IP address.
The UNL protocol has a layered structure, wherein higher layers make use of functionality provided by lower layers, similar to an open systems interconnection (OSI) model.
The ability to capture, process and make sense of geographic information impacts businesses in a range of industries. The UNL protocol is designed to serve as a backbone to a variety of business applications, where addressing and geolocation-related technologies are critical.
Sphereon
Sphereon was one of the first companies to provide easy-to-use solutions to bridge the gap between today’s world of document-centric business processes and the new decentralized world with communities, eco systems and value chains.
ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO is one of the Netherlands’ leading banks. We have a clear purpose: Banking for better, for generations to come. This means supporting clients in their transition to sustainability, reinventing the customer experience and building a bank that is fit and ready for the future.
ABN AMRO is investing time, money and energy in Distributed Ledger Technology. To do this we are drawing on the know-how and experts that we have in-house, as well as working with other banks, partners and blockchain companies. Together, we are reassessing and redesigning value chain processes and data flows on how we can improve these using blockchain. Our active engagements include VAKT, Komgo, Forcefield and DELIVER.
ABN AMRO is also a stakeholder in the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, Linux Hyperledger Project, Digital Asset and R3.
Gargoledger
Cargoledger knows how to connect software to existing systems. You can keep using your current IT. Cargoledger adds an extra layer underneath that adds trust and makes data sharing easy.
Wordproof
Wordproof enables trust, protect your content & prepare for next-generation SEO.
The software as a service solution of CADChain acts like as a bodyguard that travels with your files. The bodyguard-plugin protects your files from unauthorized access and tracks every interaction with the file.
ICTU
ICTU is a (semi) governmental foundation that takes a connecting role of neutral platform. We bring consciousness to the corporate social responsibility. With “connecting to the citizen” as our core competence, we also address inclusive cities as opposed to (isolated) smart city approaches
How/why does a citizen improve? We provide big data & privacy competences via the creation of innovative eco-systems based on the ‘multi-helix’ principle – collaboration between companies, government, (venture)capital as well as later stage capital, universities, advisory and stakeholders.
Last but not least, ICTU delivers (free open source software, FOSS) working code in a highly qualified environment (ie Nederlandse praktijkrichtlijn (NPR) 5326 ‘Kwaliteitsborging softwareontwikkeling binnen overheidsdomein’).
Deltares
Deltares is a Dutch independent research institute for water, soil and subsurface issues. We are a leader in the development, dissemination and application of knowledge for the sustainable planning and management of vulnerable deltas, coastal areas and river basins. Our ambition is to combine our excellent knowledge with new enabling technologies, such as Blockchain for the benefit of our clients and society at large.
Vinturas
Vinturas is developing a digital platform where all logistics and technical data of a vehicle (VIN) can be shared in a safe way.
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