When speaking about blockchain, all stakeholders agree that the possibilities and potential impact in our society are outstanding.
They are often illustrated through business use cases and public administrations issues. It can be about how to secure property, cars lifelong history or controlling citizens information sharing. Among the fields that have not been enough addressed, one which will take full advantage of the blockchain technology features: democracy.
Democracy is a form of government where the power is vested on the people. The people elect agents to represent and exercise its authority. The process of democracy is about decision making and is similar to the blockchain consensus. It is not just about government and states. The process must be trusted for the decision to be agreed on by all parts. The blockchain technology embodies security and the certainty that each part of the decision-making process will have its participation secured and protected. That is what Dr. Billal Chouli and co explain in a cosigned article*.
In the article, they first dive into the issues on modern democracy, especially in Europe and in the USA. They after present how Electis features, an opensource Blockchain voting protocol, would be of an answer to those issues. The article was cosigned by Billal chouli, Nithin eapen, Sarah-Diane Eck, Alexander Scott Fields, Aurélie Jean, PhD, Gilles Mentré, Franck nouyrigat, Philippe RODRIGUEZ.
*The views expressed in this paper do not reflect the positions of the respective organizations to which the authors are linked.