This was a session at Untitled Festival 2020.
Blockchain technologies are claimed to make it possible to develop and implement social technologies that can replace existing social apparatuses of public governance. This could mean for example implementing autonomous executing administration in public governance or building a governance system based on direct democracy – or conversely, distributed autonomous organizations outside public power taking over similar tasks.
In this conversation we explore a future where by scaling different distributed ledger technology solutions replace current public organisations and processes. What kind of impact would it have on democracy, public services and on our societies at large? Would this be a desirable direction to develop our public administration? Can technological solutions be a substitute for institutional trust?
Launched in January 2020, TOKEN (Transformative Impact Of Blockchain Technologies in Public Services) is an EU funded project whose ultimate goal is to develop an experimental ecosystem to enable the adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology and to prove its value, via highly replicable Use Cases, as a driver for the transformation of public services. TOKEN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No. 825268.
Twitter handle(s): @TOKEN_EU
Website: https://token-project.eu
