Paper Info
Title
Digital ecclesia: towards an online direct-democracy framework.
Abstract
Citizens envision the transition from the representative democracy to the online direct democracy. Inspired by the ancient Athenians' direct democracy, we propose an initial version of the framework Digital Ecclesia. We model the Digital Ecclesia as a social network that offers dynamic and large-scale reachability of citizens. Citizens are dynamically notified to participate and vote on discussion topics of new working groups. To address scalability and privacy challenges, the architecture of the Digital Ecclesia is distributed, i.e. each node runs a local program with its own storage that executes the voting procedure in parallel with other nodes. Nodes communicate to each other via exchanging encrypted messages in a scalable manner. We model the voting procedure as a non-cooperative game and we specify an algorithm for employing the voting game in a distributed fashion. Finally, we conduct the preliminary evaluation of the algorithm on a corpus of real-world votes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3183428.3183432
ICSE-SEIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distributed message-passing model, game theory, scalability
Voting,Computer security,Cryptography,Computer science,Encryption,Real-time computing,Distributed algorithm,Direct democracy,Game theory,Representative democracy,Scalability
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0270-5257
978-1-4503-5661-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dionysis Athanasopoulos1475.19