Thursday Extra: "A Just Society Needs Decentralized Tech"

On Thursday, September 12, Nate Williams 2020 will report on his summer internship in Berlin at Vocdoni, an organization building a decentralized and secure online voting platform. He will present his perspective on how peer-to-peer systems might be used to make high-stakes applications secure and universally verifiable. He will also discuss the political implications of these innovations, including Vocdoni's potentially transformative impact on modern social and civil organization.

At 4:00 p.m., refreshments will be served in the Computer Science Commons, Noyce 3817. The talk, A Just Society Needs Decentralized Tech: Building Online Voting Software at Vocdoni, will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Noyce 3821.