Coalition of Automated Legal Applications (COALA)

WHO WE ARE We are lawyers, computer scientists and entrepreneurs who are thinking together about the challenges and opportunities of emerging blockchain technologies and how they will affect the way we live in modern society. We want people think about how the future Internet and society will look like in a world of ubiquitous connectivity, decentralized networks and interconnected devices. SMART CONTRACTS Automated transactions between humans and machines, or between multiple machines which are automatically enforced by the underlying code of the technology DISTRIBUTED ORGANISATIONS Decentralized applications deployed directly on the blockchain, they can form decentralized organizations which are both autonomous and self-sufficient COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE Autonomous communities relying on new governance systems that are flatter, more transparent and allow for more democratic and participatory decision-making