Last week, South Korea’s capital city revamped its citizen engagement platform ‘Democracy Seoul’, adding blockchain support to prevent referendum voting fraud.
Launched in 2017, Democracy Seoul has received 5,963 civic proposals, of which 59 became policies in Seoul, reported the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s media channel. The city authorities reorganized the platform to speed up and increase the execution of proposals.
Democracy Seoul enables citizens to propose and debate topics they would like the city government to work on. These debates generally end in a voting process, with the mayor or the local government responding to the proposal. Reducing the threshold of votes needed to initiate public discussions and the mayor’s participation are two other changes made to the platform.
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