Projects that use Plurality in Note part 4 by mashbean brief
Past projects
Taiwan has achieved many successes in digital projects through public-private partnerships. For example, the tax filing system was improved by service designers from the private sector, which ultimately created significant results. Taiwan's Presidential Hackathon once used Quadratic Voting to create a more effective and fair evaluation system, and the same system will be introduced in the upcoming large-scale data public welfare evaluation project for social return of investment (sROI)
Forward-looking Project
The Plurality section will launch two forward-looking web3 projects this year, Decentralized Identity (DID) and Impact Certificate.
Moda joined the W3C this year, the world's oldest and most authoritative internet association. Last year, the association launched the extremely forward-looking W3C DID Standard, which is likely to promote the development of Plural Identity in Plurality. DID may strike a balance between centralized identity verification agencies and privacy. For example, as long as you are a natural person in Taiwan, you can now obtain a Citizen Digital Certificate. Thanks to the efforts of the Ministry of the Interior, this Digital Certificate can now be used on mobile phones.
Now we want to link the citizen certificate to the DID standard, for example, creating a pseudonymous Soul-bound token through natural person identity on the public blockchain. This way, Taiwanese citizens can maintain anonymity in their daily lives and reveal their identity as Taiwanese when needed. Identity is the foundation of Plurality. Based on natural person identity, we can create more possibilities, such as electronic voting, e-residency international exchange, automated KYC (know your customer), basic income, or experiments between plural property.
Maintaining a privacy from identity is very important in today's society, on the one hand, to avoid the threat of surveillance capitalism, and on the other hand, to avoid the infiltration of totalitarian governments. In addition, in the era of artificial intelligence, traceable identity and data are becoming more and more important.
The second topic we are going to do is impact certificate. We are about to collaborate with Taiwan's web3 open source community to research impact certificates, which can be applied in more areas, such as Open Source Community, Public Money/Public Code, and Social Impact Bond, etc.
Perhaps in the next panel, Noah Yeh can supplement us with more information. Simply put, we want to use HyperCerts developed by Protocol Lab as the impact certificate for open-source workers. And use the concept of a Token-bound license to bind the license terms of the open-source code contributed by the open-source worker to the impact certificate. Then the public sector acquires these impact certificates, puts them into a unified open repository for open-source code, and finally declares Public Domain license, such as CC0.
The benefit of doing this is that open-source workers and the public sector work together to create digital public goods and create stackable contributions under clear licensing rules. Social Impact Bond has many successful cases in the real world, and it should be easier to execute in the digital world.
The above is moda's work on Plurality that will be launched soon.