College of Malta College students who’re Enrolled in Masters in Blockchain Program are Now Voting for Pupil Representatives Utilizing a Decentralized Software (dApp)

A decentralized utility (dApp) created on the College of Malta helps Grasp college students in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Applied sciences to forged their votes for pupil representatives, for the very first time, utilizing blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT).

Dr. Joshua Ellul, director on the College of Malta’s Middle of Distributed Ledger Applied sciences, said:

“At the moment particularly, given the present state of affairs, it was necessary to have a distant voting mechanism in place that permits belief and transparency because of the blockchain-based answer.”

Dr. Ellul added:

“A primary problem to attain that is onboarding customers in a trusted method – and digital id platforms corresponding to that supplied by Vodafone present an answer.”

This dApp was enabled utilizing a decentralized digital id platform, which leverages blockchain tech supplied by Vodafone. The platform permits every trusted person to entry enhanced privateness options by giving them full management of their private information, as a substitute of it being managed by a centralized authority.

The dApp permits customers to forged votes in a clear method. Every individual’s vote may be reliably verified via the digital id system.

Voters’ identities stay nameless all through the method.

Dr. Ellul confirmed:

“We [recently] hosted a pupil representatives election utilizing a dApp developed in-house and partnered with Vodafone Group Service GmbH, which supplied a Digital Id (#DID) platform. We’re happy to have been the primary use-case for the Vodafone DID platform, and so far as we are able to inform a world first to carry a pupil election on a blockchain.” 

He added:

“Given the present #COVID19 state of affairs, and in our measures to ‘flatten the curve,’ this answer enabled for a distant, clear, verifiable and nameless election course of via the usage of blockchain and sensible contracts.”

The College of Malta’s Masters in Blockchain and DLT is a multidisciplinary program. It helps college students achieve an in-depth understanding of the principle areas concerned with the event of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, sensible contracts, and different DLT-enabled options.

It additionally helps grad college students pursue their very own specific space of specialization.