Technology has empowered us in a way that was unthinkable a few years ago. Today, we are living in a world where we have more computing power inside the smartphones in our pockets than NASA used to get us to the moon. What still lags behind is the way the models for collaborative decision are designed. They have long lost their validity and they fail to pass the test of time. As these processes are slow and costly, outcomes lack the power of trust, and our geographically centralized methods of mass participation are a catalyst for voters’ disinterest and apathy. Society is rushing into the future, pacing steadily on the chariot of technology, but our democratic processes are entangled in the clutches of the past, falling behind the rest of the world.
HORIZON STATE: Redesigning democracy for the 21st century.
Horizon State has developed a token-based blockchain voting and decision-making platform that ensures unprecedented trust through the integrity and post-unforgeable attributes of blockchain technology. Horizon State delivers a safe digital ballot box that is impossible to be hacked, wherein results can never be affected, and voter identities are kept safe and secure. The platform encourages mass participation, facilitates deliberation and gives an opportunity for enhanced decision making. It is a way to intimidate constituents on matters that affect them with immediacy. It is a blueprint where representatives can join hands with their constituency with unprecedented efficiency. It is an easy method for communities, families, staff, and undoubtedly entire citizenships to inclusively participate in the decision making processes that regulate their lives.
Key Features of HORIZON STATE:
1.Assembling an ecosystem
They are building a comprehensive platform that will enable the common public, as well as partner developers, to chose and use form a diverse range of products and services. This will, in addition, aid the processes of voting and decision making. Exclusively for this purpose, they have developed the Decision Tokens which will act as the fuel for this ecosystem.
2.Solving existing problems
Horizon State’s use of blockchain technology looks at the security of the vote, and indeed of wider kinds of participatory promises. As data stored on the blockchain itself is safe and tamper-proof, once the voter has voted and verified his vote’s registration, there is no way to alter it. Where voter’s identity need not to be revealed, the platform ensures that the anonymity is ensured.
3.Blockchain based platform
Horizon State is a blockchain-based platform that promises an efficient vote casting and decision-making process. The platform functions through the use of Decision Tokens (HST). These are used for pacing the decision and voting processes by providing the ‘gas’ for voting and other services within the ecosystem.
4.Strong and efficient network
Horizon State technology’s most important and beneficial component is “a secure vote”. To ensure that this feature functions well they use ledger technology (DLT).
5.Safe and secure voting
The MVP employed by MiVote entailed the detachment of the voter profile from the vote itself, while ensuring that each user of the Horizon State system only had the opportunity to vote once. The votes, which serve as transactions to Ethereum’s public blockchain, contain no voter identity information. Their association to the voter is kept safe and hashed to ensure voters cannot double-vote.
Future goals for HORIZON STATE:
Horizon State has a detailed plan of extending the product. Their futuristic vision is to develop a platform that provides many functional layers on top of the voting process itself. Their roadmap constitutes of features such as user engagement, campaign management, deliberation facilitation and much more.
1.The continuum of commercialization and building of a modern day blockchain-based technology stack.
2.Making platforms for deliberation, engagement, and decisions.
3.Research and Development of unprecedented platform extensions and functionality.
4.Maintain a safe, easy to handle mechanisms for identification and authentication.
Horizon State is presently collaborating with governments, large-scaled corporations, local councils, unions, education facilities and non-profit organizations which will work with the help of Decision Tokens for polling and voting processes. New products and services across the ecosystem will require the use of HST, driving the token value and demand. According to Forbes, “This is set to be a global game changer and will soon be adopted by political parties, multinational enterprises, global NGOs and communities in developing countries.”
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For more information visit:
Website: https://horizonstate.com
Whitepaper: https://horizonstate.com/whitepaper/
Written By: karanj