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‘Xalgo-rule’ Authoring Video-Tutorial

Xalgorithms contributor Ryan Fleck has produced an excellent short video tutorial that illustrates the line-by-line authoring and testing of a ‘Xalgo-rule’ message on the ‘alpha’ level Internet of Rules. His sample rule is a Value Added Tax base rate, since it’s something practically everyone has some familiarity with. This rule is only for the base VAT rate. Any adjustments (zero-rated item or some exemption or credit) is an additional discrete rule. Great work Ryan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcoWgOYvbbk

A Look Back at the Original IoR Vision from 2016

In early 2016 we outlined our vision of an Internet of Rules. Here’s our original website on the Internet Archive.
And here’s our video of what we had in mind: https://vimeo.com/173809271
The substance of that orginal video describes what we now have built. The naming of some of the elements has evolved (the “Registry of Rules” is now “Interlibr”), but it’s wonderful to see it running in ‘alpha’ true to the original vision!

Xalgorithms Foundation at the World Trade Symposium, London 5-6 December 2018

The Executive Director of Xalgorithms Foundation, Joseph Potvin was invited to co-facilitate an “Open Architecture Roundable Session” at the World Trade Symposium (Day 2, 14:30). The focus of this session was: “How can silos that prevent interoperability, be transformed into nodes of a network?” Here is his session report. (The rough notes of the group were structured into a table during the session.) Each round table involved senior cross-sector executives in trade and finance (policy makers/not-for-profits/corporations/banks and fintechs). The purpose was to generate tangible and measurable action points for the post-event report, to be shared with the wider trade and finance community through the Financial Times and Finastra and the World Trade Board.

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A (deep) Transformative Improvement in Trade and Commerce.

Xalgorithms Alliance R&D overview looking ahead to 2019, with a focus on global trade. Any networked individual, organization or machine will soon have available a common ubiquitous method to freely publish computational algorithms to the Internet, and to automatically fetch and compute required and desired algorithms on-demand from the Internet.

Author

Joseph Potvin, Executive Director, Xalgorithms Foundation.

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Transforming the Sudanese Economy: Benefits of Blockchain Technologies and an “Internet of Rules” for Economy and Trade

Juan Felipe Rodrigo López. 2018. Transforming the Sudanese Economy: Leveraging trade facilitation, e-commerce and geographical indication protections through Distributed Ledger technology. Pre-publication research draft, towards a Masters in International Economic Law and Policy, University of Barcelona. October 2018. This paper explores the potential for blockchain technology to address Sudan’s long-standing economic challenge of export concentration given its current process of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). In tackling this situation, it is proposed that the protection and promotion of geographical indication (GI) products, the development of e-commerce and implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) provisions should be priorities in support of Sudan’s economic development. The paper concludes by suggesting the benefits that implementing blockchain technologies and an “Internet of Rules” could bring to the Sudanese economy and trade policy.

Author

Juan Felipe Rodrigo is an international trade lawyer and economist with an LLM from the University of Barcelona. He has worked as a legal and policy consultant on Special Economic Zones, Competition Advocacy, the relationships of Digital Economy, International Trade and Blockchain Methods.

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20 June 2018: WTO EIF Trade for Development News – An Internet of Rules for all: Can “Trade Policy 3.0” foster inclusive trade?

Advances in technology and trade policy have the potential to reshape the trading landscape for the better.

Read more: https://trade4devnews/enhancedif.org/en/op-ed/trade/policy-3-0-inclusive-trade

Also Published on World Economic Forum.

Author

Craig A. Atkinson, CITP
Research Consultant
@craigaatkinson

11 June 2018: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) – From Facilitation 2.0 to trade policy 3.0: Opportunities to expand and extend the rules of global trade.

Read more: https://www.ictsd.org/opinion/from-facilitation-20-to-trade-policy-30-opportunities-to-expand-and-extend-the

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Author

Craig A. Atkinson, CITP
Research Consultant
@craigaatkinson

26 March, 2018: LSE Business Review

Disruptive trade technologies will usher in the ‘internet of rules’.

Trade policy 3.0, with algorithmic law and automation friendly legislation, will help more firms trade.

Author

Craig A. Atkinson, CITP
Research Consultant
@craigaatkinson

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