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Grassroots Flash: A Payment System for Grassroots Cryptocurrencies [PDF]

CoRR, 2023
The goal of grassroots cryptocurrencies is to provide a foundation with which local digital economies can emerge independently of each other and of global digital platforms and global cryptocurrencies; can form and grow without initial capital or external credit; can trade with each other; and can gradually merge into a global digital economy ...
Andrew Lewis-Pye, Oded Naor, Ehud Shapiro   +2 more
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The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2017
This article focuses on the role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations. It asks: When community leaders initiate energy projects, what types of skills and knowledge practices do they utilise to nurture grassroots ...
Mari Martiskainen
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Grassroots Social Networking: Serverless, Permissionless Protocols for Twitter/LinkedIn/WhatsApp [PDF]

OASIS@HT, 2023
Offering a viable alternative architecture to centrally-controlled global digital platforms for social networking is an open challenge. Here we present a grassroots architecture for serverless, permissionless, peer-to-peer social networks termed ...
E. Shapiro
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Grassroots innovation and social innovation in perspective

Frontiers in Sociology, 2023
This article provides a comprehensive review of social innovation and grassroots innovation over the last 5 years, offering a detailed analysis of both concepts.
Karina Maldonado-Mariscal
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Expression Elements Derived From Plant Sequences Provide Effective Gene Expression Regulation and New Opportunities for Plant Biotechnology Traits

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Plant biotechnology traits provide a means to increase crop yields, manage weeds and pests, and sustainably contribute to addressing the needs of a growing population.
Jennifer P. C. To, Jennifer P. C. To, Jennifer P. C. To, Ian W. Davis, Ian W. Davis, Ian W. Davis, Matthew S. Marengo, Matthew S. Marengo, Matthew S. Marengo, Aabid Shariff, Aabid Shariff, Aabid Shariff, Catherine Baublite, Keith Decker, Rafaelo M. Galvão, Rafaelo M. Galvão, Rafaelo M. Galvão, Zhihuan Gao, Zhihuan Gao, Zhihuan Gao, Olivia Haragutchi, Olivia Haragutchi, Olivia Haragutchi, Jee W. Jung, Jee W. Jung, Jee W. Jung, Jee W. Jung, Hong Li, Brent O'Brien, Brent O'Brien, Brent O'Brien, Anagha Sant, Tedd D. Elich, Tedd D. Elich, Tedd D. Elich   +34 more
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How platform businesses mobilize their users and allies: Corporate grassroots lobbying and the Airbnb ‘movement’ for deregulation

Socio-Economic Review, 2023
This article analyzes and theorizes the political strategies of businesses in the new digital ‘platform’ economy. Airbnb, Uber and meal delivery companies have transformed travel, urban space and repertoires of everyday exchange; they are also ...
Luke Yates
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Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons

Journal of Political Ecology, 2022
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for
Elia Apostolopoulou, D. Bormpoudakis, Alexandros Chatzipavlidis, J. A. Cortés Vázquez, Ioana Florea, M. Gearey, Julyan Levy, J. Loginova, J. Ordner, Tristan Partridge, Alejandra Pizarro, Hannibal Rhoades, Kate Symons, C. Veríssimo, N. Wahby   +14 more
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Grassroots struggles challenging housing financialization in Spain

Housing Studies, 2022
Spain was one of the most severely hit countries by the 2008 global financial crisis. More than ten years after, the belated economic recovery has hardly changed the roots of that crisis, especially the financialization of the real estate sector ...
Miguel A. Martínez, Javier Gil
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Current situation and countermeasures of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction work in cities and counties under the large emergency system：Taking Ma’anshan as an example

地震科学进展, 2023
This paper focuses on the situation of earthquake organizational reforms in cities and counties in Anhui Province, with a specific analysis of the work status, characteristics, and problems of grassroots earthquake prevention and disaster reduction ...
Mingwang Yuan, Nan Zhao, Yuanyuan Liu, Hao Xu, Ming Tian, Ruijie Xie, Qiangqiang Zhou   +6 more
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Administrative Ethics Conflict and Governance of Grassroots Government Staff Under the Human Relationship Society

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The conflict of administrative morality among civil servants at the grassroots level arises from the background of China’s long-standing traditional culture, and the current administrative system cannot keep up with the pace of economic development.
Yue Yin, Taotao Li, Fan Yang
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