Linked Democracy

Poblet, Marta; Casanovas, Pompeu; Rodrı́guez-Doncel, Victor

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13363-4

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“…Consider the European Commission’s policy on better and smart regulation (European Commission 2015 ), and the EU Better Regulation scheme for interoperability (TOGAF 2017 ), in which the use of participation schemes and coordination mechanisms can be understood as the interface of the model between top-down and bottom-up solutions. In addition, the approach is consistent with the stance on the rule of law taken by standardisation agencies and some governance models in the business field (Pagallo et al 2019 ; Poblet et al 2019 ).…”

Section: Legal Experimentations and Data Governancesupporting

confidence: 62%

The Governance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Aviation Law, Human Rights, and the Free Movement of Data in the EU

Pagallo

Bassi

2020

Minds & Machines

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The paper deals with the governance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in European law. Three different kinds of balance have been struck between multiple regulatory systems, in accordance with the sector of the governance of UAS which is taken into account. The first model regards the field of civil aviation law and its European Union (EU)’s regulation: the model looks like a traditional mix of top-down regulation and soft law. The second model concerns the EU general data protection law, the GDPR, which has set up a co-regulatory framework summed up with the principle of accountability also, but not only, in the field of drones. The third model of governance has been adopted by the EU through methods of legal experimentation and coordination mechanisms for UAS. The overall aim of the paper is to elucidate the ways in which such three models interact, insisting on differences and similarities with other technologies (e.g. self-driving cars), and further legal systems (e.g. the US).

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Section: Legal Experimentations and Data Governancesupporting

confidence: 62%

The Governance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Aviation Law, Human Rights, and the Free Movement of Data in the EU

Pagallo

Bassi

2020

Minds & Machines

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“…Also known as crowd-civic systems [34], they can be defined as "socio-technical systems blending people, digital technologies, and data for civic engagement purposes: information management, large-scale deliberation, decision making, etc." [35]. Poblet et al classified a set of 130 crowd-civic systems within different visions of citizenship, derived from liberal, republican, deliberative, and epistemic theories of democracy.…”

Section: E-participation Systems: Technological Background and Relatementioning

confidence: 99%

A neural blockchain for a tokenizable e-Participation model

2021

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Highlights • A tokenizable e-Participation model will develop new local engagement. • Using a "democratic token" will help governments to overcome the governance deficit. • Building a BaaS neural network within a cloud framework is a scalable and sustainable solution. • A Neural Distributed Ledger (NDL) is a step beyond developing a 3D blockchain system. • A dApp called VoteKeeper uses Smart Contracts as a block producer in a virtual token. Abstract Currently, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and, especially, Blockchain technology represent a great opportunity for public institutions to improve citizen participation and foster democratic innovation. These technologies facilitate the simplification of processes and provide secure management of recorded data, guaranteeing the transmission and public transparency of information. Based on the combination of a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform and G-Cloud solutions, our proposal consists of the design of an e-Participation model that uses a tokenizable system of the actions and processes undertaken by citizens in participatory processes providing incentives to promote greater participation in public affairs. In order to develop a sustainable, scalable and resilient e-Participation system, a new blockchain concept, which organizes the blocks as a neural system, is combined with the implementation of a virtual token to reward participants. Furthermore, this virtual token is deployed through a smart contract that the block itself produces, containing information about the transaction and all the documents involved in the process. Finally, our Neural Distributed Ledger (NDL) framework facilitates the interconnection of blockchain networks in a transparent, certified, secure, auditable, scalable and traceable way.

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“…Work on cyber force and cyber wars (Pagallo 2015c), digital retaliation (Taddeo 2017), workplace and technoregulation (Brownsword and Yeung 2007), up to current "pastoral powers" of profiling (Hildebrandt and Gutwirth 2009), illustrate this trend. The digitalization of current societies can be grasped as a set of constraints and possibilities that transform or reshape the environment of people's interaction, such as their political institutions and legal systems, with corresponding problems of legitimacy and authority, trust and coercion, rights and obedience (Floridi 2014;Pagallo 2015a;Poblet et al 2019).…”

Section: Back To the Leviathan?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…the opinion of the US population on Donald Trump's management of the Covid-19 crisis, we may wonder to what extent current sovereigns can really protect "their" population, and furthermore, what kind of powers a sovereign should have, in order to attain such end today. Could current debate on "digital sovereignty" find the answer for the problems we're coping with (Floridi 2020), or should we reconstruct our rights and institutions from the very beginning (Poblet et al 2019)?…”

Section: Back To the Leviathan?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The list of legal sectors include also but not only data protection and internet law, anti-terrorism and transnational business law, ICTs and environmental regulations. Each field has its model of governance, as occurs with the Web of Data and data protection (Pagallo et al 2019), linked democracy (Poblet et al 2019), artificial socio-cognitive and socio-technical systems (Andrighetto et al 2013), human computing interaction (Fredericks et al 2016), or the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the health sector (Casanovas et al 2017;Pagallo et al 2019). Still, each field of regulation relies on the power of coordination and cooperation mechanisms through which multiple forms of legal co-regulation govern individual and social behaviour.…”

Section: Solutions and Open Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sovereigns, Viruses, and the Law

Pagallo

2020

LiC

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The paper examines the legal and political impact of the Covid-19 crisis, drawing the attention to fundamental questions on authority and political legitimacy, coercion and obligation, power and cooperation. National states and sovereign governments have had and still will have a crucial role in re-establishing the public health sector and addressing the colossal challenges of economic re-construction. Scholars have accordingly discussed the set of legal means displayed during this crisis: emergency decrees, lockdowns, travel bans, and generally speaking, powers of the state of exception. The aim of this paper is to stress the limits of such perspectives on powers of national governments and sovereigns, in order to illustrate what goes beyond such powers. Focus should be on the ontological, epistemic and normative constraints that affect today’s rights and duties of national states. Such constraints correspond to a class of problems that is complex, often transnational, and increasingly data-driven. In addition, we should not overlook the lessons learnt from such fields, as environmental law and internet governance, anti-terrorism and transnational business law, up to the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Such fields show that legal co-regulation and mechanisms of coordination and cooperation complement the traditional powers of national governments even in the times of the mother of all pandemics. The Covid-19 crisis has been often interpreted as if this were the last chapter of an on-going history about the Leviathan and its bio-powers. It is not. The crisis regards the end of the first chapter on the history of today’s information societies.

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Linked Democracy

Abstract: It is only by mobilizing knowledge that is widely dispersed across a genuinely diverse community that a free society can hope to outperform its rivals while remaining true to its values.

Cited by 15 publications

References 43 publications

The Governance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Aviation Law, Human Rights, and the Free Movement of Data in the EU

The Governance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Aviation Law, Human Rights, and the Free Movement of Data in the EU

A neural blockchain for a tokenizable e-Participation model

Sovereigns, Viruses, and the Law

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