IMPACT
We are proud of the impact DECaDE has made through the publication, commercial licensing and open-source release of provenance technologies with our industry partners.
Since DECaDE was founded, we have seen a rise in fake news and misinformation, a risk more evident with the progress of Artificial Intelligence. As a member of the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, DECaDE has influenced and impacted standards in content provenance metadata and thought leadership in the media provenance space.
DECaDE researchers led some of the earliest user studies of non-fungible tokens and their strengths and weaknesses, proposing innovations to advance this technology to create fairer forms of a decentralised market that gives creatives better agency over re-use.
Working on a joint project – Reduced International Trade (RFIT) – with the Cabinet Office and HMRC, DECaDE looked towards Distributed Ledger Technology to help shape the 2025 UK Border Strategy. We continue to push this work forward with our public sector partners.
DECaDE looks ahead to create impact in our increasingly decentralised digital economy, by developing technological solutions to enable a prosperous and safe digital society for all.
It continues to be a privilege to Chair the Independent Advisory Board for the DECaDE Programme. Over the course of the last few years I have seen for myself how the programme continues to produce impressive results but also have a significant and practical impact on both commercial and policy decision making. I expect this impact to grow and the benefits of the programmes work to flow into commerce, government and society as a whole.”
Nick Davies
Director of the Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation and Innovation Lead at HMRC.
Our Impact
3
patents
jointly filed
56
Papers
published
5
Academic
Awards and
RECOGNITIONS
£583k
Additional
funding
secured
7
Policy
Engagements
35
Commercial
Partners
79
Engagement
Activities
Research Spotlights
Fighting fake news in the age of Generative AI
Creating frictionless trade at our borders
Enabling creatives to share their work, while preserving privacy and rights
Research
Engagement
To further DECaDE’s engagement we regularly attend conferences, workshops and Government consultations.
To understand our impact in the real-world we run Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Field labs facilitated by Digital Catapult, focused on solving coordination challenges and fast tracking research translation.
Digital Economy Next Stage Symposium (DE-Nexus)
The event which took place on 10th June 2024, brought together six EPSRC funded Next Stage Digital Economy Centres to showcase outputs and impacts of socio-technical research in the UK and was attended by industry, academics and UKRI representatives. Each of the centres have a focus on harnessing digital technologies for our economy, our communities, our cultural lives, and our health and wellbeing which has led to impact on policy, patents, publications in the UK.
Collaboration
DECaDE collaborates with industry, government policy members and public sector end-users to co-create adventurous and exciting research to shape the evolution of the digital economy towards a new 21st-century model of work and value creation.
