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SUMMARY:Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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 ">A Grassroots Architecture for the Digital Realm</a>\nby Ehud Shapiro (We
 izmann Institute of Science) as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstra
 ct\nThe digital realm is dominated today by global digital platforms with 
 autocratic or plutocratic governance and lacks democratic alternatives.  W
 e  subscribe to the manifesto of Project Liberty and in this talk describ
 e an egalitarian and democratic alternative architecture to the digital re
 alm.\n\nThe architecture realizes the notion of grassroots distributed sys
 tems\, which\, informally\, are smartphone-based peer-to-peer systems that
  do not depend on global platforms or global resources to operate and flo
 urish\, and retain the ownership of data and its control with the people 
 that produce it. \n\nWe present a grassroots protocol stack that employs
  the blocklace\, a partially-ordered counterpart to the blockchain.  The f
 irst layer of the protocol\, grassroots dissemination\, can realize grass
 roots social networking\; the second layer\, of equivocation exclusion\, c
 an realize grassroots cryptocurrencies\, and the third layer\, of ordering
 \, can realize grassroots consensus. Together they can provide a grassroot
 s foundation to  egalitarian and democratic alternatives to existing glob
 al platform-based applications.\n\nProject Liberty Manifesto: https://www.
 projectliberty.io/news/a-manifesto-from-project-liberty-s-founder-a-better
 -web-for-a-better-world\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/177/
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