„The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“

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Autor(a) principal: Vysna, Nina
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/10362/105908
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 a university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. However, literature and our focus group findings revealed that there is an interrelation between the distrust among the students and a low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude that people 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”-„elections and trust“BlockchainOnline votingTrustTransparencyDomínio/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 a university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. However, literature and our focus group findings revealed that there is an interrelation between the distrust among the students and a low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude that people should be educated before being confronted with blockchain-enabled online voting to take advantage of the technology’s potential.Bell, AndrewRUNVysna, Nina2020-10-20T09:18:20Z2020-01-142020-01-032020-01-14T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/105908TID:202494349enginfo: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:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:51:07Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/105908Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:40:37.239119Repositório 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”-„elections and trust“
title „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
spellingShingle „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
Vysna, Nina
Blockchain
Online voting
Trust
Transparency
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
title_full „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
title_fullStr „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
title_full_unstemmed „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
title_sort „The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
author Vysna, Nina
author_facet Vysna, Nina
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Bell, Andrew
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vysna, Nina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Blockchain
Online voting
Trust
Transparency
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Blockchain
Online voting
Trust
Transparency
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 a university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. However, literature and our focus group findings revealed that there is an interrelation between the distrust among the students and a low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude that people should be educated before being confronted with blockchain-enabled online voting to take advantage of the technology’s potential.
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