Influence without Surveillance Project Overview Parliament is meant to represent the people, but it does not always work as well as it should. Citizens want more input into the functions of government between elections; parliamentarians, conversely, often struggle with a deluge of messages that do not

Influence without Surveillance Questions about the features Q: How often should citizens be shown questions they haven't searched or asked for, or on topics they didn't select? It's important to count the people who were not interested in a question, and flicked it away without upvoting it. But showing people too many uninteresting questions may cause frustration. A: Actually it's probably fine to show people questions only in their field(s) of interest. There is still plenty of opportunity for them to express a lack of support for the particular question. Could also simply show how many people had viewed the question. Q: What is the right metric for popularity? Should it be what has the largest total votes, what has the largest fraction of upvotes per view, what has the most activity recently, or should these options all be available?

Influence without Surveillance Features for citizens Ask a question : Direct a question to a particular MP or committee. Tell them who should have to answer Upvote or flick past a question

Influence without Surveillance Security and privacy RightToAsk incorporates the ElectionGuard end-to-end verifiability library to aggregate votes before the total is decrypted, and to prove that even the system administrators cannot artificially inflate or deflate the popularity of questions. The decryption keys are secret-shared among four decryption servers. This means that individual votes remain private, even from RightToAsk's administrators, unless three of the four decryptors collude.

Influence without Surveillance Who we are and what we do Overview Features Security and Privacy

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Influence without Surveillance Welcome If you're new to open source, you might like to read this guide to getting started. Team So far, we've had valuable contributions from Andrew Conway, Ishan Goyal, Kipling, Chuanyuan Liu, Eleanor McMurtry, Lillian McCann, Hanna Navissi, Pedro Rosas and Miguel Wood. The team is organised by Vanessa Teague - email me if you'd like to join, or add your comments to the Discussions.

Influence without Surveillance Screens and usage The Registration screen : invites a user to choose a name and (optionally) state their postcode. This also generates a cryptographic key pair.