All right! Balta is ours! Yesterday we agreed to install E-VOX:NaRada in Balta town of Odesska oblast’ (region) in Ukraine. We shall provide the first blockchain based system for voting in Balta’s town council. Here is in the photo me (Oleksii Konashevych) and Mr Robinovich, the First Deputy of Major are shaking hands. He gave me LOI and we greed to start technical preparations.    

This year in June E-VOX team developed a concept of  electronic voting system for local councils “NaRada“, which was nominated for EGAP Challenge on e-Democracy in Odessa. The Challenge is organized by the State Agency of Ukraine on e-Government and financed by the Swiss governmental fund. Currently, E-VOX offers local councils free licence (open source) for E-VOX:NaRada for deputies voting on plenary sessions and system (web-portal) for voting results publication, taking into account the requirements of Ukrainian legislation and if necessary adapt the system for specific needs of local councils and representatives.  For a few months we will set the hardware, software, test the system and train deputies to use application.   System presentation is […]

Innovation And Development Foundation (IDF Solutions) announced its leaving of E-VOX project and EGAP Challenge.   E-VOX team appreciates IDF Solutions being a great partner in this project and it’s team including David Kiziria, Lasha Antadze and Roman Yakovlev being high professional and responsive.      

The E-VOX project team has introduced the concept of e-voting system for communities and local councils based on blockchain technology and aimed at supporting e-democracy in Ukraine. With its project team E-VOX was selected among others on EGAP Challenge Hackathon held by the State Agency for E-Governance of Ukraine to participate in the ongoing incubation program and went to the next round of the competition. The importance of the E-VOX project is raised by the emerging process of state power decentralization in Ukraine which depends on bringing transparency and technology to local governments.   Local government decisions are hardly accessible in Ukraine Current Ukrainian legislation enforce local authorities to publish […]

е-Vox system as backend should become the basis for various applications. We plan to create frontend to satisfy such areas of voting/decision making: Primaries and other political processes E-petitions, local electronic plebiscites, electronic referenda Voting for local councils and parliaments Voting for any groups and communities, and for other purposes The project is open for volunteers. Currently developers from Ambisafe and Vareger Group are working on e-Petitions service. MVP will be the first end-user application which will help us to test the technology and move forward.   The following issues on our next agenda: identification modules (digital signature under the laws of Ukraine, bank-ID and mobile-ID) anonymization module   Each blockchain […]

Blockchain is the technology of distributed Peer-To-Peer public network, which can permanently and irrevocably store information about transactions (deeds), which are cryptographically secured. The first known blockchain system is Bitcoin that was launched in 2008 and originally is applied for cryptocurrency of the same name. Second-generation blockchain networks can provide multiple options for different purposes: creating smart contracts, smart property, voting, storing legally significant actions wich timestamp and so on. People are free to add their nodes to the network and to provide their computing resources to the needs of such network and are rewarded for performed work. Blockchain provide unprecedented high level of protection of information and allows do create entirely […]