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Direct Democracy System Architecture for Sustainable Community Participation
Authors:
Aderonke Thompson
Nikolaos Papakonstantinou
Dharmendra Sharma
Keywords: architecture; anonymity; sybil-resistance; decentralization; blockchain.
Abstract:
Active community participation without being tagged as hate speech contribution has been an established desirable element for citizens towards achieving a sustainable democratic process in communities across the world. Significant contributions to bridge this gap have been proposed by means of web technology adoption. Unarguably, in the context of free communication, anonymity is sought for serious contributions. Thus, in this paper, we examine four state-of the-art democracy platforms based on open-source technologies vis-à -vis their system architecture and features. It is observed that, while some of these platforms provide active democratic citizens participation, by e-voting, none of them adopts anonymity and full decentralization technology open-source platform in the discussion forum, which is a pivot for the waned participants’ trust with the conventional centralized system that is inherently prone to single-point of failure problems; this is also prone to the vulnerabilities of data at rest, in transit and storage. Consequently, we propose a full decentralized system, based on blockchain technology that is capable of being integrated with the state-of-the-art system to ensure trust, tamper-resistance, sybil-resistance, accountability, reliability, transparency, and security, using a tokenization with the exclusive consideration of gas optimization technique to lower the cost each citizen will incur using the system.
Pages: 170 to 176
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: November 13, 2023
Published in: conference
ISBN: 978-1-68558-089-6
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: from November 13, 2023 to November 17, 2023