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Here is the next:
Title: Using cryptographic election verification for parliamentary
participation.
Abstract: The Right To Ask project will use cryptographic techniques
from end-to-end verifiable e-voting for a much simpler problem: voting
on which questions are the most popular. These questions are meant to
be asked in formal scenarios such as Parliamentary committee hearings
and question time, or answered in written form in-app. We aim to open a
channel of communication between parliamentarians and citizens so that
Parliament can be more directly and immediately responsive to input from
citizens.
Questions have a name attached, but upvotes and downvotes can be
aggregated anonymously and proven to be properly tallied using
well-known techniques from the e-voting literature.
I’ll describe the aims of the project, some of the underlying maths, and
how to become involved if you'd like to help.
With thanks to these contributors: Andrew Conway, Ishan Goyal, Chuanyuan
Liu, Lillian McCann, Eleanor McMurtry, Hanna Navissi, Pedro Rosas,
Miguel Wood.
Further reading: https://righttoaskorg.github.io/righttoask-docs/
When:
Wednesday, 19 May, 2021, at 3pm.
Where: Room TBD. Via Zoom,
here<https://anu.zoom.us/j/89631367083?pwd=cFg5bkg5emtNM1ZRdENiKzBDdm9lZz09>
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Tom Worthington, Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian
National University https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington
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