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The Uruguay Digital Party is set to adopt blockchain technology in its internal voting process.
In order to embrace the technology, the political party, which started in 2013, is teaming up with blockchain startup Æternity, which will work to optimize the participation processes of citizens in internal voting using blockchain.
The Digital Party’s representatives affirm that it is the first political party that aims to bring the digital era to the political sphere of Uruguay. It is defined as a group of people who believe that each Uruguayan must audit their representatives and take advantage of technology to expand citizen influence.
“We want to put technology at the service of Uruguayans to add participation and transparency to decision making. We believe that the benefits granted by blockchain in terms of security and decentralization of processes allow us to offer Uruguayans a solution according to our expectations,” said Digital Party President Justin Graside.
By leveraging blockchain technology, the Digital Party aims to make decisions more transparent, thereby building a new system in which citizens, as well as its members, can participate in a decentralized manner in the political decisions of their community.
Under the collaboration, Æternity will work in two main areas:
- A decentralized application (dApp) based on the “liquid democracy” model, which operates with tokens using a basic set of smart contracts that the Digital Party will use for its internal governance.
- A technological solution for the collection and validation of adherent identities, which will allow the Digital Party to create a secure and transparent database.
In this way, each citizen would be able to vote on proposals and give ideas directly and safely, thanks to encryption techniques that ensure a verifiable process separating the identity of the vote, which is kept secret.
“The application of democratic governance that will be implemented by the Digital Party is based on the internal governance solution that aeternity uses for internal community decision-making, which is a completely new architecture, allowing greater participation of citizens in political decisions at all levels, with unalterable reliability,” said Pablo Coirolo, CEO of Æternity Americas. “This is an important milestone on the road to the massive use of blockchain technology to benefit democratic institutions.”
The Digital Party will campaign during the next national elections of October 2019 and in the departmental elections of the following year.
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