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Olivia Acland/Reuters First-ever elections on Technologies blokcheyna: what was it?
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on March 7 to Sierra Leone (West Africa) passed the elections first in the history with application of Technologies blokcheyna. Indicator.Ru understands as everything passed, in what advantages and shortcomings of the distributed register for the political sphere.
Sierra Leone – one of the poorest and politically unstable African countries. In 2014-2015 the state was covered by fever epidemic the Ebola losses from which are estimated at 1,4 billion dollars. Elections pass after the termination of two presidential terms Ernest Bay Koroma, and 16 candidates apply for a position of the head of the country. In the first round none of them did not collect necessary 55% of votes.
Byvshy the resident Ernest Bay Koroma
Carlo Allegri/Reuters However attention of world community these elections attracted Sierra Leone. More precisely, Technologies blokcheyna was applied to verification of the given votes.
Technologies blokcheyna — is the continuous consecutive chain of blocks containing information built by certain rules. Safety technologies is provided to that for completion of transactions (so in informatics the group of logically joint consecutive operations on work with data is called) it is necessary that each block of a chain consistently checked its signatures and a format. Most often copies of chains of blocks are stored on a set of different computers independently from each other.
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the Technical solution were provided by the Swiss fund Agora which is engaged in digital technologies in vote. Information from each submitted paper bulletin registered in Technologies blokcheyna. Why such decision was required? Agora gave a guarantee of transparency of elections. If cryptocurrency projects provide transparency of financial transaction why not to present similar transparency to elections?
it is important that, unlike Cryptocurrency, the Swiss startup works with private (proprietary) Technologies blokcheyna. It means that the right to bring records in the register only special representatives bodies possess. In case of elections to Sierra Leone as them the Red Cross, the Higher technical school Lausanne and Universtitet Freiburg acted. Other people, wishing to act as observers, could watch process in the mode "only for reading".
"If we will be able to make byit to Sierra Leone, it will turn out and in other countries" — Leonardo Gammar, director general Agora. The desire of the authorities of the African countries to use Technologies blokcheyna is connected first of all with high level of mistrust of the population to elections. The electorate is strongly shattered on the basis of loyalty to this or that clan or a tribe, and representatives of other tribes always accuse the winner of frauds. Startup hopes that Technologies blokcheyna will solve a problem of a crisis of confidence in political system in general and to elections in chastnosti.
Izbirateli at presidential elections Sierra Leone
Ernest Henry/EPA This installation forces to remember results recent large-scale sociological the relation of Russians to technological innovations. "Tekhnooptimista" (and them much) hope that new technologies will provide transparency and efficiency incorrigibly spoiled, in their opinion, the state system: say, we will replace officials with robots, and everything will be excellent.
However in case of Sierra Leone to which tekhnooptimist worldwide clap, the gloomy irony should not notice. Technologies blokcheyna Technologies blokcheyna, and actually occurred return to a colonialism situation: Africans vote, and white people supervise them. And to only white people technology grants the right to control rules of the game.
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