[Short paper] Digital Ecclesia: Towards an Online Direct-Democracy Framework
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.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Meeting other sciencesSEIS - Software Engineering in Society at R2 Chair(s): Amel Bennaceur The Open University | ||
11:00 20mTalk | [Full paper] SE in ES: Opportunities for Software Engineering and Cloud Computing in Environmental Science SEIS - Software Engineering in Society Will Simm , Faiza Samreen , Richard Bassett , Gordon Blair , Maria Angela Ferrario Lancaster University, Jon Whittle Monash University, Paul Young | ||
11:20 20mTalk | [Full paper] Towards a Unified Conceptual Model for Surveillance Theories SEIS - Software Engineering in Society Pre-print File Attached | ||
11:40 20mTalk | [Full paper] Competence-Confidence Gap: A Threat to Female Developers' Contribution on GitHub SEIS - Software Engineering in Society DOI Pre-print | ||
12:00 20mTalk | [Short paper] Digital Ecclesia: Towards an Online Direct-Democracy Framework SEIS - Software Engineering in Society Dionysis Athanasopoulos Victoria University of Wellington DOI Pre-print | ||
12:20 10mTalk | Q&A in groups SEIS - Software Engineering in Society |