Ideate & Enrich | Blockchain & Sharing Economy in Mobility

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Potential for sharing approaches in cities through blockchain technologiesSharing approaches have the potential to help cities achieve their sustainability goals. In addition to other areas, such as the residential sector, great importance is attached to sharing approaches in the mobility sector. Car-sharing, bike-sharing, ride-sharing and on-demand buses are concepts that already exist. It is in the interest of cities to make them more widespread. In addition, there is potential for sharing approaches for which only initial trials have been carried out to date, particularly in the area of peer-to-peer sharing (P2P), in which (more private) owners of vehicles make them available to other people for temporary use. As our Sharing Monitor Switzerland (sharing-monitor.ch) has shown, various factors stand in the way of greater distribution, such as lack of trust, lack of convenience, lack of privacy or hygiene factors. Cities as institutions are said to be able to help sharing become more widespread, for example through their role as an anchor of trust for the population.Cities could use blockchain technologies that have the potential to overcome the aforementioned and other barriers to the implementation of the sharing economy by enabling features such as transparency, counterfeit protection, decentralization and the involvement of all stakeholders, thereby significantly expanding the business potential for sharing platforms. Blockchain technology is said to have the potential, for example, to increase the trust of market participants through smart contracts, to simplify the matching of supply and demand or to enable direct interaction between providers and users so that no fees are incurred for an intermediary (e.g. a sales platform). If this succeeds, there is huge potential to be tapped into through innovation beyond the traditional platform-driven applications of sharing in the classic areas of mobility, workplaces, living space, clothing or objects such as household, sports or electronic equipment. This relates not only to Peer2Peer, but increasingly also to interactions between companies and includes “democratized” cloud management and data sharing as well as knowledge and energy transfer in digitalized processes. The basic principle of innovation should be to use blockchain to secure trust and motivation in integrative markets and to focus on shared benefits through new forms of production and consumption. Objectives of the ideation workshopReflection on the possible role of blockchain technologies for sharing approaches in citiesDevelop initial ideas for specific services or products and weigh up their feasibility and economic potentialDefinition of a roadmap on how an innovation idea can be submitted in a joint consortium

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• Event Name: Ideate & Enrich | Blockchain & Sharing Economy in Mobility
• Date: 2/7/2025 10:09:11 AM
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Potential for sharing approaches in cities through blockchain technologies

Sharing approaches have the potential to help cities achieve their sustainability goals. In addition to other areas, such as the residential sector, great importance is attached to sharing approaches in the mobility sector. Car-sharing, bike-sharing, ride-sharing and on-demand buses are concepts that already exist. It is in the interest of cities to make them more widespread. In addition, there is potential for sharing approaches for which only initial trials have been carried out to date, particularly in the area of peer-to-peer sharing (P2P), in which (more private) owners of vehicles make them available to other people for temporary use. As our Sharing Monitor Switzerland (sharing-monitor.ch) has shown, various factors stand in the way of greater distribution, such as lack of trust, lack of convenience, lack of privacy or hygiene factors. Cities as institutions are said to be able to help sharing become more widespread, for example through their role as an anchor of trust for the population.

Cities could use blockchain technologies that have the potential to overcome the aforementioned and other barriers to the implementation of the sharing economy by enabling features such as transparency, counterfeit protection, decentralization and the involvement of all stakeholders, thereby significantly expanding the business potential for sharing platforms. Blockchain technology is said to have the potential, for example, to increase the trust of market participants through smart contracts, to simplify the matching of supply and demand or to enable direct interaction between providers and users so that no fees are incurred for an intermediary (e.g. a sales platform). If this succeeds, there is huge potential to be tapped into through innovation beyond the traditional platform-driven applications of sharing in the classic areas of mobility, workplaces, living space, clothing or objects such as household, sports or electronic equipment. This relates not only to Peer2Peer, but increasingly also to interactions between companies and includes “democratized” cloud management and data sharing as well as knowledge and energy transfer in digitalized processes. The basic principle of innovation should be to use blockchain to secure trust and motivation in integrative markets and to focus on shared benefits through new forms of production and consumption.

Objectives of the ideation workshop

• Reflection on the possible role of blockchain technologies for sharing approaches in cities

• Develop initial ideas for specific services or products and weigh up their feasibility and economic potential

• Definition of a roadmap on how an innovation idea can be submitted in a joint consortium