Chris is a passionate advocate for the potential of technology and the benefits of diversity and inclusion. He campaigns for more accessible environments for disabled people and has conducted an independent review for the UK Government that made recommendations on opening up public appointments to disabled people.

In 2017 Chris’s report on ‘Distributed Ledger Technology For Public Good’ (DLT) urged the government to consider blockchain for public use cases. The Electronic Trade Documents Act, which Chris steered into law in 2023, is a fine example of that work coming to fruition. It represents the potential to kickstart mainstream adoption of blockchain systems for the wider digitalisation of trade documents.

In this episode of the Tech Means Business podcast, we talk about Chris’s interests in distributed ledger technology, future legislation that’s due to pass through Parliament in the current sitting, and how the UK can lead the world in data policy, privacy and soverignty.

You can read more about Chris here:
https://chrisholmes.co.uk/

And on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lord-chris-holmes/

About the Electronic Trade Documents Act:
https://chrisholmes.co.uk/news/electronic-trade-documents-act/

Chris’ 2017 Report on DLT for public good:
https://chrisholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Distributed-Ledger-Technologies-for-Public-Good_leadership-collaboration-and-innovation.pdf [pdf] 

Joe Green’s LinkedIn page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephedwardgreen/

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Show Notes for Series 02 Episode 20

In an internet environment that’s seen the deterioration of privacy over the last few years especially, there are various methods people and businesses can use to stop sensitive information being leeched away. Some of them — like setting up a VPN tunnel — are difficult to achieve in ways that are scalable and reliable.

This episode’s guest, Seven, is the Brit behind the Orchid VPN, a platform that aims to be easy to use, anonymous to fund, and make online privacy a given.

Seven (that’s Dr Steven Waterhouse, IRL) has had a career that’s taken him from the rowing for and studying at Cambridge University to Silicon Valley, where a series of successful business ventures have cemented his place in the tech scene.

In this podcast we talk about privacy, anonymization, blockchain, VPNs and government oversight. If your wardrobe doesn’t already contain a tinfoil hat (your host’s does), then you’ll be shopping for one by the time you’ve finished listening.

This podcast is best listened to on Chrome (that’s an internet privacy gag, right there).

Seven’s Orchid VPN can be found here:

Web | Google Play | iOS App Store | Git

And his LinkedIn profile is here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deseventral/

Joe’s LinkedIn profile is here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephedwardgreen/

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Show Notes for Series 02 Episode 19

Giant stadiums and local sports grounds all over the world lie empty with sports men and women competing to no audience at all, in most cases. Can tech save sport?

Steve Madincea of Fantastec thinks so. His company is behind a digital memorabilia trading platform that’s powered by blockchain, and he has plenty more projects at different stages of completion, too, with haptics, drones, IoT and plenty more playing their part.

Instead of rushing to the big sports federations and organizations (there’s plenty of money in professional sport), Steve looks first to the fans’ interests and passions as the starting point for all Fantastec does.

How can a Spurs fan in Beijing get involved in matches from the other side of the world? Can live cricket’s passionate fans a thousand miles from a match feel what someone sat at Lord’s cricket ground feels too?

Technology is ever-present in every nearly every area of life, so perhaps we need to concentrate more on the ways it can increase our enjoyment of sports, games, and competitive eSports.

The Fantastec trading app is on Google Play and the AppStore, and you can read more about some of the more experimental goings-on at Fantastec here.

Steve’s LinkedIn as follows:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemadincea/

Joe’s social media presence is here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephedwardgreen/

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