Oskar: slides on talk I gave to give brief intro and frame problem: https://hackmd.io/@oskarth/H1osZWJzyl#/

Dimensions

- Identity / personhood
- Association
- Access
- Commerce / trust
- Contracts / property

Key questions

1. What are the challenges?
2. How can ProgCrypto help?
3. What should we work on next?

Presentation

- Plurality
- Digital democracy in the 21st century
- Enshire freedom & rights
- Similar to OS & apps, kernal/user space
- Dimensions identified, builds on each other
- Dimensions
1. Identity / personhood
2. Association (freedom to do so)
1. Moving beyond public vs. private
2. How do we create secure common contexts?
3. Commerce / trust
1. Cash vs CBDC vs crypto
2. Private, fungible money?
3. Community-based trust network
4. Contracts / property
1. Digital assets
2. e.g. NK privacy pools, “proof of innocence” / proof of exclusion
3. e.g. TLSNotary - free your data
4. e.g. IFPS/Filecoin - storage marketplace
5. Access
1. Availability & integrity
2. Info integrity
1. Deep fakes & fake news
2. New standard: signature of photo/content
1. e.g. proof Rueters published this picture
3. More signed data
1. ZK signed data & prove valid operations
2. Prove emails w/ ZK Email
4.
- Depth vs breadth frontier
- Depth of collaboration
- Breadth of diversity

Summary

- Moving into digital & plural world
- ProgCrypto is a useful tool
- Need more convos between technologists, researchers, policy makers

Group breakout

- Hao
- Jeff
- Edu
- Yuriko
- Sam
- Jern

Key questions

1. What are the challenges?
1. Roots of trust
1. Relying on govt/entity to issue these credentials
2. Processes not encoded. Human systems
3. Govts
1. Bot or not
2. Fake news / mis info
3. PQ
4. People
1. Polarization
2. Apathy
3. Skepticism
4. Expert fallacy
- Polarization
- Tools for people to connect & find common ground
- People in their own reality
- Apathy Youth unmotivated / apathetic
- Don’t play any role in society
- Inability to buy a house
- Can’t find jobs after university degrees
- Taiwan
- Individuals
- Skepticism. Everything controlled by politics
- e.g. parents. everything is from news/TV. believe everything is driven by politics. every channel driven by different part. Skeptical to embrace technology
- Thailand
- Expert fallacy? Too much trust in experts? idolize PHD. Don’t think we have enough context to judge
- Similar in Singapore. Trust in credentials.
- Pro or against monarchy. Very divisive. Very sensitive. Judge each other as good or bad. Not sure how to bridge the gap
- Defend from politics / from China
- Couldn’t allocate much budget - need to invest in military. Other priorities 🙂
- gov0 - big grassroots community
- open source, civic tech
- open APIs for others to build on top & others can contribute
- Tools that Audrey made?
- Was it private?
- Trusted server? Or what degree of privacy?
- Japan
- Opposite problem.
- Family trust. e.g. family politicians. Politicians don’t trust the experts
- Spain
- Singapore
- Have digital IDs integrated into 1 app
- Govts
- bots or not?
- Fake news
- info integrity/
2. How can ProgCrypto help?
- Only a piece of the solution
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3. What should we work on next?
- Combine?
- AA & MACI to do polls in India
- Integrate Semaphore into https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis
- Polis
- How to start?
- A) Top down? Collab w/ politicians?
- e.g. Audrey in a position of power
- B) Bottom up? Or grassroots? Get enough signatures? Present case
- e.g. Sunflower movement as a force
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- Singapore
- Govt tends not to rock the boat. Happy w/ way things are
- More skeptical to innovation
- ALSO Singaporeans generally conservative
- e.g. govt labels somethings as a scam, people tend to believe
- Polarization is strong - some people pro US, some pro China
- WHY? Small country. Govt can manage people more easily
- Taiwan polarization?
- When politicians change
- MOFA - digital dept in Taiwain
- Pushing digital ID, but when president changed, project was shut down
- Only 4 years to do it?
- How to fix local problems? Local scale? Start small?
- Starting with a school, local municipality?
- e.g. 1 city in Japan, proactive re: experiments (Fuko? - ask Yuriko)
- Starting with progressive cities/politicians
- Takeaways? Start small
- Less govt stakeholders to start?
- Get buy in from people about using this tech
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