Network States

💯 Decentralization truly matters in building free societies

Imagine living under the same president for 31 years, where opposition is persecuted. That’s Belarus.

Until recently, nation-level political coordination in Belarus was nearly impossible due to censorship and political profiling. 

🗳️ But with Vocdoni's censorship-resistant and privacy-first voting tech, about 7000 Belarusians safely voted in New Belarus elections, a project building a free state through technology.

💯 Decentralization truly matters in building free societies

Imagine living under the same president for 31 years, where opposition is persecuted. That’s Belarus.

Until recently, nation-level political coordination in Belarus was nearly impossible due to censorship and political profiling. 

🗳️ But with Vocdoni's censorship-resistant and privacy-first voting tech, about 7000 Belarusians safely voted in New Belarus elections, a project building a free state through technology.

https://blog.vocdoni.io/new-belarus-vocdoni

🗳️ Voting protocol | Open-source, decentralized, verifiable, anticoercion, tamper-proof & anonymous | Votecaster.io: DAO governance on Frames

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Appreciate it! 🙌 We love seeing our tech being used, especially for such important use cases

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Unfortunately, they are not recognized by the current Belarusian government, but they are building a democratic opposition. Holding free elections within this movement is a big step toward achieving their goal of a democratic transition in the country.

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Unfortunately, they are not recognized by the current Belarusian government, but they are building a democratic opposition. Holding free elections within this movement is a big step toward achieving their goal of a democratic transition in the country.

https://tsikhanouskaya.org/en/coordinating-council.html

Just curious, but would the votes even be acknowledged? Especially if they were in favor of the opposition?

Is this an anonymous way to signal dissension or approval? Curious to the impact this had.

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Their approach is not to convince the authoritarian regime but to build an alternative parallel system, kind of like a network state, including e-government services.

More info here:

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Their approach is not to convince the authoritarian regime but to build an alternative parallel system, kind of like a network state, including e-government services.

More info here:
https://newbelarus.com/index_en.html

but how did you convince an authoritarian regime to legitimize this as election tech?

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