ETH Team lead by Sergiu Șoima wins Switzerland’s largest Blockchain Hackathons, while being visitor at the COSS team
Team:
Sergiu Șoima (MSc student in Computer Science, Romanian),
Burak Seyid (MSc student at D-MTEC, Turkish),
Marcel Bühler (MSc student in Data Science, Swiss),
Semion Rozov (MSc student in Mechanical Engineering, German & Russian),
Lennard Wenzel (BA student in Digital Business Management at DHBW, German, external team member).
Problem Statement:
While the past years have seen significant efforts in the area of eGovernment, Public Services yet lack powerful solutions for many of the new challenges such as Digital ID, E-Voting and the Management and Registration of Documents. Our challenges deal with the questions of how a government body can ensure that information can be updated flexibly while also being accurately and truthfully replicable and how it can prove that the information has not been manipulated. The key areas here are:
How can centralized public registries be protected, making official documents and credentials tamper-proof and easily verifiable, and easing the burden of the individual to aggregate and share his information between governmental bodies as well as other stakeholders, such as employers, banks or insurances?
How can we ensure trusted and secure standards, to solve the current issues around e-Voting and in order to digitize the fundamental democratic process of voting.
Finally, how can institutions give their own representatives the temporary right to make legally binding signatures?
Your solutions will contribute to providing new solutions that help solve the current issues around trust, security and transparency and to establish a new era between governments and individuals.