The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology

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Autor(a) principal: Konzok, Ivo Johannes Josef
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/107284
Resumo: Online Voting evidently increases election turnouts. However, recent state-owned initiatives have failed due to security concerns and a lack of trust in the systems. Blockchain seems to be a very suitable technical solution to establish transparency in online voting and thus, create trust. We have built our own, blockchain-enabled voting platform and utilized it to run an A/B-testing experiment at an university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. How ever, literature and our focus group findings revealed thatthere is an interrelation between the distrust among the students anda low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude tha tpeople should be educated before being confronted with blockchain-enabled online voting to take advantage of the technology’s potential.
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spelling The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technologyBlockchainTransparencyOnline VotingTrustDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoOnline Voting evidently increases election turnouts. However, recent state-owned initiatives have failed due to security concerns and a lack of trust in the systems. Blockchain seems to be a very suitable technical solution to establish transparency in online voting and thus, create trust. We have built our own, blockchain-enabled voting platform and utilized it to run an A/B-testing experiment at an university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. How ever, literature and our focus group findings revealed thatthere is an interrelation between the distrust among the students anda low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude tha tpeople should be educated before being confronted with blockchain-enabled online voting to take advantage of the technology’s potential.Bell, AndrewRUNKonzok, Ivo Johannes Josef2020-11-17T14:52:00Z2020-01-142020-01-062020-01-14T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/107284TID:202496473enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:52:00Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/107284Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:40:55.322668Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
title The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
spellingShingle The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
Konzok, Ivo Johannes Josef
Blockchain
Transparency
Online Voting
Trust
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
title_full The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
title_fullStr The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
title_full_unstemmed The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
title_sort The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems - an exploration of blockchain technology
author Konzok, Ivo Johannes Josef
author_facet Konzok, Ivo Johannes Josef
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Bell, Andrew
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Konzok, Ivo Johannes Josef
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Blockchain
Transparency
Online Voting
Trust
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Blockchain
Transparency
Online Voting
Trust
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description Online Voting evidently increases election turnouts. However, recent state-owned initiatives have failed due to security concerns and a lack of trust in the systems. Blockchain seems to be a very suitable technical solution to establish transparency in online voting and thus, create trust. We have built our own, blockchain-enabled voting platform and utilized it to run an A/B-testing experiment at an university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. How ever, literature and our focus group findings revealed thatthere is an interrelation between the distrust among the students anda low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude tha tpeople should be educated before being confronted with blockchain-enabled online voting to take advantage of the technology’s potential.
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