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Updates to science and technology research mandate

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title: "Vision & Research"
description: "The IPDB Foundation promotes science and research on the operation of scalable blockchain databases, the governance of decentralized systems, and the applications of blockchain technology."
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The early web gave us a utopian vision of a decentralized world. Corporate giants and governments would be replaced. We would live in a society where we deal directly with one another, free of censorship or coercion.
> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of the Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
> <cite>— John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996</cite>
The internet has displaced many of the old powers, but new powers dominate the web as we know it. Freedom of expression is often limited. The ironic result of this centralized control is a fragmented internet where the information you have access to is determined by your location and providers, things you have no control over.
The IPDB Foundation promotes science and research on the operation of scalable blockchain databases, the governance of decentralized systems, and the applications of blockchain technology.
We make our work available in many ways: hosting and presenting at conferences and workshops, publishing research results and technical papers, releasing open sourced code, and more. We make our work freely available online, so everyone can benefit from it.
We make our work available in many ways: hosting or presenting at conferences and workshops, publishing research results and technical papers, releasing open source software, and more. We make our work freely available online, so everyone can benefit from it.