How #agora Will Use #blockchain to Bring True #democracy to the World
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-agora-will-use-blockchain-to-bring-true-democracy-to-the-world-2b231
It seems that our world is entering a very dangerous time. Regardless of one’s political views, it is impossible to ignore the growing dangers stemming from modernization. With the increased presence of technology in everyday life, governments are able to intrude on personal privacy through internet histories, social media, cell phone data and more.China recently made news by announcing the implementation of a “social capital” system, which consists of digitally tracked data points that will determine the liberties one will have in day-to-day life.However, technology can also be used to improve popular rule, rather than threaten it, and one blockchain start-up is committed to this idea. Agora, a project spun out of EPFL’s Swiss Lab for Digital Democracy, has created a blockchain voting (...)