Francisco Luis Benítez Martínez

• PhD in Information and Communication Technologies
• Innovation & Prospective Director. Blockchain Researcher at Fundación I+D Software Libre (FIDESOL)

Currently Distributed Ledger Technologies-DLTs, and especially the Blockchain technology, are an excellent opportunity for public institutions to transform the channels of citizen participation and reinvigorate democratic processes. These technologies permit the simplification of processes and make it possible to safely and securely manage the data...

Currently, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and, especially, Blockchain technology represent a great opportunity for public institutions to improve citizen participation and foster democratic innovation. These technologies facilitate the simplification of processes and provide secure management of recorded data, guaranteeing the transmission...

The evolution of Distributed Ledger Technologies since the first blockchain constitutes an opportunity for digital transformation in many social and economic contexts. This transformation will become even more intense in the post–covid-19 economic scenario. One of the most significant changes in the transformation consumers have undergone in their...

Today blockchain technology provides us with a formidable tool in the struggle to trace economic resources, especially in the context of the circular economy. The circular economy has been proposed as a key element in the transformation of production models in the context of European post–covid-19 recovery plans with particular reference to the Nex...

Blockchain technology currently represents a great opportunity for e-government in general and for public procurement in particular, given their financial implications and potential political and social risks. Blockchain technology facilitates the procedures and processes of administrative records via smart contracts because of properties such as t...

International Congress on Blockchain and Applications university of Salamanca (Spain) 26th-28th June, 2024 Scope: Blockchain is a distributed database which is cryptographically protected against non consensed modifications. While promising for a wide range of applications, current blockchain platforms rely on digital signatures, which are vulnerab...

This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the relationship between the Human Sciences and Big Data, with special emphasis on the Ibero-American space. The volume is divided into three parts (theoretical, methodological and practical) with an interdisciplinary vision that integrates thought, culture, language, literature, theoretical cri...

One of the greatest current social challenges is the certification of digital content to guarantee its veracity and authenticity, and the possibilities offered by distributed ledger technologies thanks to the properties of the blockchain in terms of security, immutability, traceability and transparency provide a specific framework for this. This wo...

The “tokenization" of the eParticipation in public governance: an opportunity to hack Democracy. VoteKeeper, a virtual token for participatory and democratic assets under a Neural Distributed Ledger.