Innovation and supportive Regulatory Frameworks | MCP Episode 10

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru hosts Deepa Raja Carbon, Managing Director and Vice Chair at Dubai's VARA, discussing Dubai's regulatory landscape and VARA's potential to shift global views on digital assets.
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Mihaela Ulieru
Mar 28, 2024
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Mihaela Ulieru

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Dr. Mihaela Ulieru is a technology alchemist and is an innovator at the edge of the impossible. She is founder and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy (IMPACT stands for ” Innovation Management and Policy Accelerated with Communication Technologies”), which she founded at the peak of her illustrious academic career as a consulting arm of her work aiming at policy reforms for the adoption of latest digital technologies in all areas of society and sectors of the economy. Along the way she kept inspiring and supporting young entrepreneurs – one of her first MSc students was Garret Camp, co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon – and she currently advises several startups aiming to put the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” technologies (AI, Blockchain, IoT, AR/VR) to work to make the world a better place.She has held and holds appointments to a plethora of advisory boards and councils, among which: the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada (appointed by the Minister of Industry), the Science and Engineering Research Council of Singapore (appointed by the PM), Expert to the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development where as part of her work she proposed Blockchain to be added to the Top 10 Future and Emerging Technologies.As a thought leader Dr. Ulieru promotes the advantages of leveraging Blockchain and its potential to create equality and a fairer society through the inclusion of the 99% in the economy. As a top high tech academic researcher she spearheaded and led major multi-stakeholder programs leading the scaling-up of operations through strategic partnerships and networks in Industrial Informatics, the Future of Medicine, Self-Organizing Security, the EnergyWeb, Global Manufacturing Systems, and Sustainable Personal Living Technologies. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, Keynoted over 250 events, supports several non-profits and foundations and still has time to write poetry.

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Henriq C

2 years ago

<p>The UAE has such a great approach for adopting the future. Open communication such as being in this podcast is also valuable. Thank you!</p><p>You talked along the lines of constant predictable evolution of the regulatory framework with proactive up-to-date solutions and about how you are going to engage in inclusive listening, negotiation and mutual understanding with the industry. That’s wonderful indeed. Regarding this, I would like to ask if you have discussed or envisioned how you are going to facilitate consistent information flow from the field in practice. How are you going to integrate yourself into the industry so that the most important questions become properly captured with high certainty? Could there be any structured tangible ways to involve people who might have valuable insights? I would love to see ways to incentivize all parties to invest in understanding different perspectives and comprehend holistic views so that they can together become merited co-innovators of beneficial common rules and guidelines.</p><p>Next, what are your core pillars for building trust, confidence and stability for long term investments? What kinds of structures will you put in place to guarantee that commitments remain respected and decisions made today stay valid for as long as they were decided to stay so? Have you had time to discuss potential new ways of creating legislation in the era of exponential technologies, or things such as algorithmic law that can give binding answers to concrete everyday legal questions?</p><p>Here is an example from the relatively near future: When you were demonstrating the difference between the asset based and the functional (activity based) regulation you used anonymity as an example. In that concept, there are countless different nuances there such as anonyme to whom, under what conditions and what exactly the protected data contains. You are probably aware of the emergence of protocols with privacy preserving smart contracts with selective disclosures where disclosure policies are application level features. I would bet we are moving towards systems where certain pieces of information are not necessarily available to a regulator by default but if certain conditions are met they can become so. And if some other conditions are met then maybe some other information becomes available. These logics may be highly complex and account for remarkable details. </p><p>At the time when these kinds of solutions are becoming common, I find it crucial that communication between legislators, regulators and product builders works frictionlessly and effective decision-making processes are in action. To me, this looks like one potential future where actors like VARA can increasingly facilitate or, as you said, enable innovation — where regulatory bodies are not anymore external entities seen as a cost but rather contributors who can add value and be a vital natural part of the industry evolution across jurisdictions.</p><p>An educational episode once again. Highly appreciated!</p>
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Gedyon Bekele

1 year ago

<p>Great insights on balancing innovation and regulation! VARA's approach to fostering trust and stability in the digital asset space is commendable.</p>
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Elonmasuk

2 years ago

<p>Hi</p>
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Rockstar

2 years ago

<p>like</p>
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abu taher

2 years ago

<p>Nice one</p>
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shawon raj

2 years ago

<p>goood</p>
<p>Good experience in Dubai and I hope this will be implemented in my country soon. </p>
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jarin jhan

2 years ago

<p>Nice project</p>