TY - JOUR T1 - Call for Papers: Distributed Ledger Technologies for Smart Digital Economies JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2021 KW - artificial intelligence KW - blockchain KW - cybersecurity KW - digital economy KW - distributed ledger technology KW - smartification PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 11 UR - timreview.ca/article/1422 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Ledger Technologies and Social Machines: How to “smartify” the economy with blockchain-based digital extension services? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2021 A1 - Gregory Sandstrom KW - artificial intelligence KW - blockchain KW - digital economy KW - digital platform KW - distributed ledger technology KW - economic development KW - extension services KW - extension thinking KW - innovation diffusion KW - Internet of Things KW - ledger community KW - smartification KW - social machines KW - web science AB - This paper examines the broad impact of digitalization on economic development. More specifically, it addresses the computer science-derived notion of "social machines", along with the invention of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) (or blockchain), as potential signposts on the pathway to "smart(er) digital economies". The paper investigates blockchain-based ecosystems as examples of social machines that assist in economic "smartification" and development. It looks at distributed ledger-based communities (DLCs) that provide examples of functioning social machines for a variety of business and personal network communications purposes. It then analyses the scaleup of DLT-based social machines by comparison with "extension services", largely in education and agriculture, which are currently undergoing processes of digitalization. Overall, this conceptual study examines the general horizons and potential impact of blockchain and social machines on the provision of online products and services, across a range of sectors and industries. The paper offers interpretative assistance to managers, entrepreneurs, technology experts, and academics with lingering questions about blockchain in and for business and economic development. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 11 UR - timreview.ca/article/1449 IS - 6 U1 - Technology Innovation Management Review Gregory Sandstrom is Managing Editor of the TIM Review. He is a former Associate Professor of Mass Media and Communications at the European Humanities University (2012-2017), and Affiliated Associate Professor at the Social Innovations Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University (2016-2017) in Vilnius, Lithuania. His PhD is from St. Petersburg State University and the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He interned at the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg, sector on Sociology of Science (2010). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Science Council (2013-2015), for which he conducted research visits to the Copernican Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (Krakow), the University of Edinburgh's Extended Knowledge Project, Cambridge University's History and Philosophy of Science Department, and Virginia State University's Science and Technology Studies program. He worked for the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, leading student and faculty language and communications workshops, most recently (2013, 2014, 2017) in Yangon, Myanmar. His current research interests are distributed ledger technology (blockchain) systems and digital extension services. ER -