Digital Dictatorship and Democracy Through Digital Public Infrastructure and Web3. Where is Your Country Now?

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21st century, the rapid development of digital technologies occurs, which can be used both for the benefit of the majority of the population and to the detriment. According to the new view of the future of digital democracy, it should use decentralized digital instruments of digital public infrastructure (DPI) to achieve universal progress and development. These tools should be decentralized voting, digital identification, digital money. Each of these categories is mutually associated in real time with other categories. These technologies are also collectively called Web3. The opponent of digital democracy is a dictatorship that can use the same digital tools, but created in another way, through centralization. At the same time, freedom and justice cannot be achieved by usurpation of power through the centralization of new digital instruments. The digital dictatorship, where most citizens are operated to increase the welfare of a small group of people through fear and coercion should not be a goal. The digital dictatorship should be rejected by the current generation.