Summary
- Digital democracy is operationalized through identity assurance, verifiable participation, and transparent deliberation records. Mechanisms like participatory budgeting and citizen assemblies depend on credible proofs and privacy safeguards.
- Comparative playbooks (Taiwan, EU) offer tested patterns: rapid response teams, public dashboards, and civic tech procurement that favors open standards and local adaptability.
- Governance capacity is a technical requirement: content provenance, audit trails, and explainability for automated actions reduce manipulation risks and increase trust.
- Public‑private‑civic coalitions help scale. Foundations and communities co‑produce tools while government provides mandate, data, and continuity.
- Export potential: interoperable protocols and open source make Ukraine’s solutions legible to partners and donors, attracting pilots and funding.
Related sessions
Speaker | Bio | Topic | Youtube |
|---|---|---|---|
Legislator Ko | Legislator At-Large of Taiwan Parliament, Vice Co-chair of Legislative-yuan US-Taiwan Caucus (LUC), Founder and Chair of Emerging Technology Exchange Association (ETEA) | Rebuilding Trust: From Ukraine’s Web3 Manifesto to Taiwan’s Digital Democracy | www.youtube.com |
Nick Spanos | Bitcoin Pioneer, Netflix Doc "Banking on Bitcoin", Bitcoin Center 2013, Founder of Bitcoin and Blockchain Centers Worldwide. | Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: Empowering Ukraine's Reconstruction | www.youtube.com |
Griff Green | Public goods funding / Co-Founder at Giveth, q/acc & Unicorn.eth | Web3 Capital Allocation Tools | www.youtube.com |
Prof. Wei Cai | University of Washington | Preliminary Studies on decentralized communities in Conflicts and Societal Prosperity | www.youtube.com |
Jess Scully | Executive Director, RadicalxChange | Inspiring radical imagination and enabling collective action | www.youtube.com |
Panel: Impact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy | Sergii Grybniak – Presenter & Moderator Alex Bornyakov – Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Ramesh Ramadoss, PhD – Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community Paul Brody – Principal & Global Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young Hart Montgomery – CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Dimitrios Psarrakis – Board Director, GBBC | Impact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy | www.youtube.com |
David Johnston | Technologist in Web3 & AI | Decentralized AI | www.youtube.com |
Gayan Benedict | Technology Partner at PwC | MIT CISR Industry Research Fellow | ISO TC/307 Blockchain Standards Committee | Governing ecosystems - applications in architecture and resilience | www.youtube.com |
Lasha Antadze | Transforming digital identity into a tool for individual freedom. Maker of Freedomtool.org and Unforgettable.app | Rebuild: Trust, Technology, and the Future of Governance | www.youtube.com |
Future of Digital Democracy in Ukraine and Worldwide | • Audrey Tang – Cyber Ambassador At-Large, Taiwan; pioneer in digital democracy and civic technology • Glenn Weyl – Co-author of Plurality, Founder of RadicalxChange; political economist reimagining democracy • Zarah Bruhn – SPRIND (German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovations); leading Germany's Digital Democracy Lab • Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi – Ukrainian MP focused on strategic foresight and digital transformation during wartime • Katia Lukicheva – Health reform expert; architect of Ukraine's radical "money follows patients" healthcare transformation • Oleksandra Radchenko – E-Democracy Platform Manager at EGAP; managing Ukraine's unified platform serving 2M+ users • mashbean – Digital democracy advocate, Taiwan; expert on transitioning from digital assembly to association • Billion Lee – Cofacts founder; developer of Taiwan's open-source community fact-checking platform | Future of Digital Democracy in Ukraine and Worldwide | www.youtube.com |
LF Decentralized Trust Meetup | Roman Kravchenko, CEO 482.solutions : Digital identity as a new institutional form of ownership in the next-gen economy Mirko Mollik, Identity Architect at SPRIND, worked on the digital identity project in Bhutan Darrell O’Donnell, Executive Director at Ayra Association, deeply involved and knowledgeable about the EUDI Wallet program Oleksandr Brezhniev, CTO @ Privado ID | National and Ecosystem Approaches To Digital Identity and Wallets | www.youtube.com |
Suggested “HMW” prompts
- HMW embed verifiable participation and consent into service delivery workflows?
- HMW publish legible civic data and deliberation contexts to increase trust and reduce capture?
- HMW interoperate with Taiwan/EU playbooks while localizing to wartime constraints?
- HMW operationalize content provenance and explainability standards for public decisions?