BitGov
URL = http://signup.bitgovote.com/
Description
The Bitcoin of governance could be coming soon:
"After late-night discussions with my classmates acknowledging this reality, six of us started a project called Bitgov which enables citizens to vote on proposed legislation anywhere and anytime, regardless of nationality. It aims to make it easy for people to understand legislation, but also to express their opinions and join in the decision-making process.
Here’s how the technology works: Public opinion is gauged using algorithms to find the most significant social media posts and the opinion leaders. We also provide policy makers with clear insights into the sentiments of voters. The endgame is to create a platform for global governance without borders." (Pho: mailinglist: http://qz.com/116136)
Discussion
Dan Krimm:
"Bitgov seemingly will not address most of the important aspects of governance -- far too narrow in scope.
Really, this sounds to me more like a fancy name for Internet voting, which is still fundamentally problematic. Remember that nobody has determined whether it's even theoretically possible to combine (1) secret ballot-counting, (2) robust voter authentication, and (3) unhackable voter-verified audit trail, in a single technological system. (The "Australian ballot" with paper ballots does this, but only by leveraging aspects of the physical world itself, in the context of controlled-access polling places.)
Above and beyond that there are myriad issues with potentials to manipulate the voting process, from turnout/participation/mobilization, to barriers to entry in getting proposals on the ballot, to manipulating the tools to understand the proposals and their real (as opposed to merely claimed) ramifications, to vote coercion and vote bribing, etc., etc. Anyone who claims to have slam-dunk solutions to these issues is totally BS-ing. Approach all such claims with a baseline of skepticism, and use the Missouri motto: "Show me!" Burden of proof on the claimer, default stance is that the claim is false.”
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