Decentralized Review System for Transparent and Accountable Governance
authentication . As the reviews are hosted on blockchain , the governance providers cannot tamper with or censor the reviews . The developed solution accommodates simple text , image , audio , and / or video-based reviews . This overall solution can be integrated into any kind of governance workflow involving interactions between citizens and government offices / officers .
As of current implementation , we are based on Solana , which is a Public-Open blockchain platform [ 53 ] together with the IPFS distributed decentralized filesystem . This version of our solution is only Proof of concept purposes . Our grandeur view is that eventually every nation , to benefit from the blockchain-based digital transformation , would have a dedicated distributed decentralized blockchain fabric for accountability and transparency purposes .
Such fabric could be managed by a neutral international or ombudsman-like regional agency following guidelines of non-governmental and / or international governmental organizations such as Transparency International , United Nations , World Economic Forum , World Bank , etc . In 2019 , IMF and WB have launched their blockchain [ 48 ] towards their “ Learning Coin ” educational tokens . There are similar efforts [ 49 ] underway at the United Nations as well on their SDGs for 2030 agenda .
• Chapter 2 – Motivation
• Chapter 3 – Decentralized Technologies
• Chapter 4 – System Architecture and Design
• Chapter 5 – Implementation
• Chapter 6 – Conclusion
• Chapter 7 – References
A review system should ideally be reliable , the reviews posted should not be expected to be altered , and the reviews ' integrity should be guaranteed . However , the trust element is absent in centralized implementations . Decentralization increases confidence in the review process and contributes to introducing openness in governance .
As this paper summarizes the implementation of review systems with decentralized distributed blockchain technology , we consider the following as the target audience : Policy makers , international governmental agencies in United Nations , non-governmental international agencies such as Transparency International , international financial institutions such as World Bank , governance-related technology designers , researchers working in digital transformation , technologists involved in implementing accountability frameworks and the general public who evaluate the services offered by the government as stakeholders in a review system in the governance domain .
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