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Vikas Khare, Monica Bhatia, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan
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Vikas Khare, Monica Bhatia, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan
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Vikas Khare, Monica Bhatia, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan
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Thon Ly, Miss Aquarius
A Research Program on the Gift as Economic Primitive, and the Register of Everything That Could Show It Wrong This document states a research program and the conditions under which it should be abandoned. The program's hard core is a single claim about direction: that value can be organized to move only forward — from giver to receiver to the next receiver — and that a system built on that constraint circulates better than one that permits return to the source. Four chapters name the ways the core can break: whether receiving creates the capacity to give, whether the constraint survives a change of currency, whether it survives past the family, and whether it survives the giver. Each chapter is attached to pre-registered predictions, published here as a register of sixty-six items with their falsifiers, their instruments, and their status. The program is published at a deliberate moment: almost nothing in it has been run. Two desk censuses have returned results, both null or partial-null. There have been no field tests. The first is gated on a product launch in August 2027. A register published after the data arrives cannot be distinguished from a register assembled to fit it; this one is published while the outcome is unknown, which is the only condition under which it constitutes evidence of anything. --- Provenance. This paper is part of the THonly research corpus, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. The canonical version is at https://thonly.org/research/which-way-value-moves. Its SHA-256 is 89dfd48398c1c23ec6613ae953a3b326a469f8a14e76258fcdabc46fea156d5b, independently timestamped to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps and signed under RFC 3161 by three trust authorities, one of them eIDAS-qualified. AI co-authorship is disclosed. Miss Aquarius is the consistent name used for the AI collaboration across all venues.
Mukhtaruddin Mukhtaruddin, Hirut Assegid, Mohit Verma, Meenakshi Verma
The international obligation to reach the net-zero level of emissions has enhanced the requirement to develop new financial tools that would be able to raise funds to support sustainable development. One of the factors in this transition has been financial technology (FinTech) that has employed digital innovation and financial services to help provide sustainable investment, transparency, and efficiency in capital allocation. Green FinTech is the intersection of FinTech innovations and environmentally sustainable goals, especially those of assisting climate mitigation and climate adaptation policies. The chapter analyzes the examples of green FinTech, and the way they facilitate net-zero transitions. Based on theoretical frameworks and new trends in the world, the chapter outlines the major models such as digital green lending systems, carbon markets facilitated by blockchain, AI-based climate risk analytics, and crowdfunding solutions to sustainable projects.
Hirut Assegid, Priyanka Gupta, Mansi Panwar
Switching to a low-carbon economy will demand significant funding of environmentally-friendly investments. Nevertheless, commonly traditional financial systems are known to experience problems like high transaction costs, information asymmetry and less transparency which limits the efficient mobilization of green capital. The chapter discusses the potential of financial technology (FinTech) to revolutionize the green credit market and institutional channels of carbon reduction. The conceptual and analytical approach incorporating the results of the literature on sustainable finance, digital financial ecosystem, and climate policy, the chapter examines how digital lending platforms, blockchain-based verification, artificial intelligence-based credit evaluation, and data-driven environmental monitoring can improve the effectiveness and reliability of the green finance.
Ramakrishnan Ramachandran
The chapter investigates the transforming convergence of AI and sustainability, placing AI as core infrastructure facilitating a change from linear, extractive corporate models to regenerative entrepreneurial ones. These models turn planetary constraints into sources of innovation, profitability, and long-term competitive advantage in the face of resource shortages, biodiversity loss, and climate emergency by actively restore natural and social capital. Core contributions include seven archetypes: Product-as-a-Service, resource recovery, waste prevention, circular marketplaces, decentralized energy systems, regenerative agriculture/carbon removal, and longevity models; a typology of AI-native, AI-augmented, and AI-enabled sustainable models; and the new Triple-Layered AI-Enabled Business Model Canvas.It includes financing innovations, value creation, scaling by means of AI flywheels and platforms, and risks with mitigations. It ends by profiling the Regenerative Entrepreneur and proposing a research agenda for fair, net-positive AI-sustainability Integration in the 2030s.
Thon Ly, Miss Aquarius
Why Gift-Giving Is the Last Domain Where a Physical Object Remains Culturally Compulsory — and Why the Compulsion Is Friction Rather Than Preference Why Gift-Giving Is the Last Domain Where a Physical Object Remains Culturally Compulsory — and Why the Compulsion Is Friction Rather Than Preference Across most of modern life, people have been free to choose between giving a thing and giving an experience, and the evidence on which choice produces more lasting satisfaction has been consistent for two decades. Gift-giving is the exception. At a birthday, at a wedding, at a holiday table, arriving without an object is still read as arriving without a gift. Provenance. This paper is part of the HeartBank institutional corpus, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. The canonical version is at https://heartbank.net/positions/the-object-is-the-friction. Its SHA-256 is 2b49531a0d92136242e902422c934969c7531d784155fc1fcd05614c802352fa, independently timestamped to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps and signed under RFC 3161 by three trust authorities, one of them eIDAS-qualified. AI co-authorship is disclosed. Miss Aquarius is the consistent name used for the AI collaboration across all venues.
Raja Rehan, Mohd Hanafia Huridi, Aeshah Mohd Ali, Malik Shahzad Shabbir
Abstract This chapter explores how the synergy between digital transformation and sustainability initiatives offers businesses a powerful way to achieve economic growth while reducing environmental and social impacts to realize the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) by 2030. Clearly, businesses are rapidly adopting the UNSDGs program, which aims to alleviate poverty, hunger, and improve health for all, while building strong institutions. By leveraging digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things, fintech, and cloud computing for digital transformation, companies can improve energy efficiency, increase supply chain transparency, reduce carbon emissions, and support financial sustainability. Therefore, integrating digital transformation and new technologies into business strategies helps advance the UNSDGs toward their 2030 goals. As a result, companies need to adopt key strategies that merge sustainability principles with digital transformation to meet the UNSDG targets. Numerous metrics help measure how digital transformation contributes to achieving these sustainability goals. However, addressing challenges such as cost, data privacy, cybersecurity, resistance to change, lack of technical expertise, and workforce skills is essential for widespread adoption of UNSDGs. Digital transformation plays a vital role in overcoming these obstacles, often through offering innovative technological products that help raise funds for sustainability initiatives. This chapter concludes that businesses embracing digital transformation with a strong commitment to the UNSDGs will not only gain a competitive edge but also contribute significantly to building a more sustainable and resilient future.