New Technologies and Democracy Landscape -- Opportunities for Latin America.

A presentation at B2B Tech Summit in November 2018 in São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil by Pia Mancini

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New Technology & Democracy Global Landscape -- Opportunities for LATAM. Pía Mancini @piamancini

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We are 21st century citizens living under 19th century designed institutions created with an information technology of the 15th century

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It all comes down to trust.

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Democracy Currency Shifts Territorial organization of power Identity Sovereignty Cities

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What’s going on with our democracies?

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We are used to representing ourselves and have an expectation of participation

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Trust doesn’t disappear from society, it flows in a different direction.

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Representatives average between 0.003% and 0.001% of the voting population *New Scientist

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Politics is solving today’s problems with yesterday’s tools.

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Governments are catching up: Governments in 18 out of 65 countries have passed new laws or directives to increase state surveillance since June 2017

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The collapse of trust in formerly trusted institutions is a cultural shift that cannot be overstated.

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Where to we go from here?

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We need to design ways to manage this lack of trust in previously trusted intermediaries.

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Collapse in trust lowers the cost of innovation and the adoption alternatives: potential behavior shift Latin America Style

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Learn how to trust ourselves + Develop censorship resistant protocols and services

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A Liquid Democracy proposal for representation Blockchain Technology for counting the votes. A Global jurisdiction for citizenship Giving voice to non-territorial constituencies

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! Argentina

Mexico

& Nigeria " Brazil % South Africa $ Chile ) India ' Kenya ( Venezuela

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  • Colombia " Brazil " Brazil $ Chile
  • Uruguay A new generation of digital political parties.

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Never before had it been possible to transfer value between distant peoples without relying on a trusted intermediary, such as a bank or government.

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Bitcoin began the separation of Money & State.

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Blockchain and cryptocurrency systems prioritize seizure-resistance, security, and immutability.

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If Bitcoin proves that a non-sovereign, peer-topeer, global store of value is possible, the geopolitical consequences for nation-states will be profound.

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Nation-States are losing the monopoly on giving us an identity.

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In this battle between the land and the cloud, there’s space for alternatives to emerge and do things that couldn’t be done until now.

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15 percent of the world population, or 1.1 billion people, still lack an official ID.

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) Non intermediated services like Proof of Existence Identity solutions in failed States Distributed Credit Score

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Territory, what territory?

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Territory, what territory?

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Do we have, for the first time in history, a technology that enables us to organize mass collaboration at scale without a central authority?

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, No voice? Then exit.

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Trends that will impact the role of cities in the coming decades: Shift in the organization of violence + Distributed Generation of Energy

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Charter Cities, Startup Societies, Startup societies, SEZs, eco villages, micro states, intentional communities, seasteads and smart cities. Experiments in Autonomous Governance

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Open Collective Paris BrusselsTogether

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Zeppelin Democracy Earth Trust Xapo Wibson Smart Contracts RSK Smart Signautura Kleros Bitex Banking Ripio Concerje Digital AirTM Identity Proof of Existence

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Privacy Secure Self-Sovereign Digital ID Usability / Advocacy / Onboarding Opportunities Remittances Merchant solutions P2P Credit Score Vote Tracking & Participatory Democracies Resilient Cities for the Digital Nomad

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller