[LINK] Seminar on cryptography for parliamentary participation, at ANU 19 May

[Tom Worthington]

The ANU Computing School has free seminars open to anyone. These are 
currently in hybrid mode: you can participate online, or on the campus 
in Canberra: 
https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/seminars.foundations.comp

Here is the next:

Title: Using cryptographic election verification for parliamentary 
participation.

Abstract: The Right To Ask project will use cryptographic techniques 
from end-to-end verifiable e-voting for a much simpler problem: voting 
on which questions are the most popular.  These questions are meant to 
be asked in formal scenarios such as Parliamentary committee hearings 
and question time, or answered in written form in-app. We aim to open a 
channel of communication between parliamentarians and citizens so that 
Parliament can be more directly and immediately responsive to input from 
citizens.

Questions have a name attached, but upvotes and downvotes can be 
aggregated anonymously and proven to be properly tallied using 
well-known techniques from the e-voting literature.

I’ll describe the aims of the project, some of the underlying maths, and 
how to become involved if you'd like to help.

With thanks to these contributors: Andrew Conway, Ishan Goyal, Chuanyuan 
Liu, Lillian McCann, Eleanor McMurtry, Hanna Navissi, Pedro Rosas, 
Miguel Wood.

Further reading: https://righttoaskorg.github.io/righttoask-docs/

When:
Wednesday, 19 May, 2021, at 3pm.
Where: Room TBD. Via Zoom, 
here<https://anu.zoom.us/j/89631367083?pwd=cFg5bkg5emtNM1ZRdENiKzBDdm9lZz09>


-- 
Tom Worthington, Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian 
National University https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington