Decentralizing Democracy with Semantic Information Technology: The D-CENT Retrospective

Harry Halpin

2024

Abstract

One of the central questions facing democracy is the lack of engagement from ordinary citizens. D-CENT (Decentralized Citizens ENgagement Technologies) used cross-platform and decentralized technologies, ranging from Semantic Web ontologies to W3C federated social web standards, helps communities to autonomously share data, collaborate and organize their operations as a decentralized network. With the benefit of hindsight, we can analyze why this decentralized and standardized approach, while successful in the short-term, did not succeed in sustaining engagement in the long-term and why blockchain systems may be the next step forward.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Halpin H. (2024). Decentralizing Democracy with Semantic Information Technology: The D-CENT Retrospective. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST; ISBN 978-989-758-718-4, SciTePress, pages 342-349. DOI: 10.5220/0013019800003825

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist24,
author={Harry Halpin},
title={Decentralizing Democracy with Semantic Information Technology: The D-CENT Retrospective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST},
year={2024},
pages={342-349},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013019800003825},
isbn={978-989-758-718-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST
TI - Decentralizing Democracy with Semantic Information Technology: The D-CENT Retrospective
SN - 978-989-758-718-4
AU - Halpin H.
PY - 2024
SP - 342
EP - 349
DO - 10.5220/0013019800003825
PB - SciTePress