Information Systems and E-Business Management ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 , DOI: 10.1007/s10257-023-00663-x Sepehr Ghazinoory , Amirhosein Mardani , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Gholam Ali Montazer
Electronic governance is used to empower citizens and help governments and organizations with strategic decision-making or policy-making. E-democracy and e-participation methods are essential tools used to engage citizens in decision-making. One of the recent e-democracy models is known as e-cognocracy. While having advantages relative to traditional e-democracy models, e-cognocracy still faces challenges such as fraud, centralization, information failure (voting paradox), and participation rate. This paper aims to design a blockchain-based electronic democracy model on a smart contract using e-cognocracy as the base model and the concept of futarchy and prediction markets. Using the design science research methodology, a three-stage blockchain-powered e-cognocracy method for democratic decision-making is developed. The proposed method of research includes three main stages: (1) Setting the problem, (2) the voting process, and (3) knowledge diffusion and evaluation, and the stage are done through several activities. This method is implemented as a smart contract on the Ethereum platform. Using the power of blockchain technology and the economic incentive model of futarchy, this method overcomes three main challenges for e-cognocracy. To demonstrate the methodology, it was applied in a real-case experience.
中文翻译:
用于民主决策的区块链驱动的电子共治模型
电子治理用于赋予公民权力并帮助政府和组织进行战略决策或政策制定。电子民主和电子参与方法是让公民参与决策的重要工具。最近的电子民主模式之一被称为电子专家政治。电子共治虽然相对于传统电子民主模式具有优势,但仍然面临着欺诈、中心化、信息失灵(投票悖论)和参与率等挑战。本文旨在以电子专家政治为基本模型以及未来和预测市场的概念,设计一个基于区块链的智能合约电子民主模型。使用设计科学研究方法,开发了一种用于民主决策的三阶段区块链驱动的电子共治方法。所提出的研究方法包括三个主要阶段:(1)设定问题,(2)投票过程,(3)知识传播和评估,该阶段通过多项活动完成。该方法在以太坊平台上作为智能合约实现。利用区块链技术的力量和未来的经济激励模型,该方法克服了电子治理的三个主要挑战。为了演示该方法,将其应用于实际案例体验中。