diff --git a/README.mediawiki b/README.mediawiki index 4cb3e696..adbd0422 100644 --- a/README.mediawiki +++ b/README.mediawiki @@ -311,13 +311,6 @@ But unlike web based applications, Sovereign does not allow testimonial interact This will make delegations more frequent across the platform. Debates constantly exposed to the risk of ''vote'' transactions means that they are subject to real political impact. This mechanism can help reward good arguments and punish the influence of trolling without requiring the need to develop moderating authorities in the system. -===2.3.4 Liquid Democracy: A Use Case.=== -
“Blockchain could disrupt voting, just as it has currency, and could apply to any democratic government.”
~The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - -In October 2016, following a shocking, almost universally unexpected vote of 'No' to peace in the Colombian referendum that put at risk years of negotiation between the government & the marxist narco-guerrillas, [https://words.democracy.earth/a-digital-referendum-for-colombias-diaspora-aeef071ec014 Democracy Earth piloted] its liquid democracy platform in a digital plebiscite enabling a symbolic vote among the diaspora of ~6 million expatriate citizens. Instead of giving a voter the binary option, [https://www.oecd.org/gov/innovative-government/embracing-innovation-in-government-colombia.pdf the pilot] enabled people to vote separately on seven separate sub-themes of the proposed treaty, as well as to delegate their votes to more knowledgeable voters, with results revealing important nuances in voter preferences [https://words.democracy.earth/a-digital-referendum-for-colombias-diaspora-aeef071ec014 not captured] in the referendum, including the deal breaker that emerged: an overwhelming “No” among pilot participants to one particular statement of the treaty regarding political participation of the FARC. - -The pilot study had the additional impact of increasing the media and political profile of blockchain-enabled liquid democracy in Colombia; a blockchain-savvy political party has sprung up, the Partido de la Red Colombia party (“The Net Party”), with the Colombian government’s Centre for Digital Public Innovation (CDPI) reportedly investigating the technology as well. - ===2.4 Smart Contracts.=== When Claude Shannon wrote his [http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf foundational 1948 paper on Information Theory], he was able to demonstrate how circuits can perform logic functions by expressing a binary state of 1 and 0 (true or false states). Since then, digital technology shaped the dynamics of all kinds of information systems. With this in mind we focused on building an efficient design for a governance machine able to operate with blockchains that keeps its human operators as sovereign rulers by means of the vote. In the same way bits move in computers signalling a true or false state, ''votes'' signal a boolean value for institutional decisions to be recorded under smart contracts.