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“Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods, and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services.”

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In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't…

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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy…

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Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a…

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If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in…

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The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

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When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to…

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Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy…

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Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

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