liberland / egovernment

E-Government design & principles draft

Liberland

Liberland is a country situated on the western bank of the Danube river between Croatia and Serbia, sharing a land border with the former and a river border with the latter. Liberland was proclaimed on 13 April 2015 by Vít Jedlička.

More info: Liberland.org, Facebook

Basic information about the country can also be found in basic-facts.json file, which is located in the liberland/data repository.

The GitHub is linked to our Wiki pages, where you can learn more about out young country.

Wiki

• Constitution
• Laws

Repositories

Main

• assets - Official symbols (flag, coat of arms, hymn)
• constitution - Constitution draft
• data - Open Datasets
• docs - Documents in various languages and formats
• laws - Laws and Regulations
• translations - Translation project

Blockchain

• liberland_backend - The backend of the LLM (Liberand Merit) blockchain project, the system itself
• liberland_frontend - The user interface providing the UX for the LLM blockchain
• liberland_node - The code for the nodes of the blockchain, i.e. for the validators and to download the public chain.
• liberland strategy - The state of the version of the project on this GitHub and the instructions for future development

Technical

• docs-tools - Build tools for documents

Contributing

Most repositories are open to suggestions and improvements, so feel free to send a pull request. More information can be found in each repository.

License

We use various licenses, yet all are public domain:

• documents are usually released under CC-0 Universal (CC-0 1.0)
• datasets are usually released under Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL)

egovernment's Issues

Liberland Certificate Authority

There should be an official root CA that will issue certificates for citizens as a proof of their citizenship and an foundation for e-gov. It should be limited in only issuing personal certificates, that can be used further, e.g. representatives would use their personal certificates to sign laws.
I think that this and a basic citizen database is all that is needed.
What would be the best way to integrate such institution into the government?

Use Bitcoin for signing and trust chain

We can use bitcoin keys for signing messages https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-user/messages.html#signing-messages

We can also use bitcoin transactions to build trusted chain for master keys/department keys. Like colored coins just with grant/revoke flag in OP_RETURN.

I hope we can completely live without PGP, can't we?

Use of Factom for verifiable citizen database

Hi. I would like to propose using Factom (factom.org) for creating a verifiable, auditable, citizen database (among other things). In essence, what Factom does (or will do, a working beta will be released in Q3), is takes a bunch of files, or some kind of database, hashes them, and puts a single entry on the bitcoin blockchain. The integrity of the database can be verified following the same procedure and comparing with the entry on the bitcoin blockchain. To add an entry, you need to pay a small fee in "factoids", but I don't see this as being a problem.

In its simplest form, the citizen database would only constitute a citizen number, and some form of identity that can not be forged. For identity, I would propose something like these (but there are obviously other options):

• PGP public key
• Bitcoin public address (for signing, in addition to the PGP key)
• Bitmessage email address
• I2P-bote email address

If people think that Factom is a good idea, I would be happy to contact them and see what they propose. For practical measures, I am not sure if they would propose database hosting options, or if that would be up to us to manage.