Greenland, together with Top Universities and Concordium Blockchain, is investigating the possibilities of a blockchain-based election system in the country
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Central Department of Social Affairs, COBRA, Population, Science, Distrust, Demographics of Greenland, Research, Technology, IT University of Copenhagen, Department, Blockchain, Decentralization, Labour, DKK, Internet, CTO, IT University, Ministry of Social Affairs, ID, Aarhus University, Interior minister, Cryptocurrency, Greenlandic, Alcott House
Due to a change in the law in 2020, many Greenlanders will likely have to cast their vote online in upcoming national elections.
Key Points:
- Due to a change in the law in 2020, many Greenlanders will likely have to cast their vote online in upcoming national elections.
- The Department of Social Affairs, Labor Market and Home Affairs of Greenland is going to work closely together with the group on it.
- "My goal is that we can give the Greenlandic decision-makers good conditions for deciding which system they should use to hold online elections.
- We will do this by developing some protocols for a system which can be verified and which is what we call software-independent," says Carsten Schrmann.