Philémon Poux

My recent research explores how new voting methods can be developped on blockchains. In particular I focus on Liquid Democracy a hybrid form between direct and representative democracy. In Liquid Democracy, voters can transfer their voting rights to other voters if they believe they are more knowledgeable. This delegation is supposed to result in more optimal decision-making while still taking into consideration preferences at an individual level. Liquid Democracy can be used only as a voting method or as a…

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The 1st International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good (DICG) was held (virtually) on December 8th, colocated with the Middleware 2020 Conference. With my supervisor Primavera de Filippi and Simona Ramos, we submitted our Blockchains for the Governance of Common Goods paper and I presented it in the first panel. The conference being virtual, I recorded a video of my presentation. It is 10 minutes long and does a decent job of presenting our research results. You can find…

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The Dispute Revolution Conference: Decentralized Justice Takes Over Paris was a conference organized jointly by Kleros and the CRED at the Sorbonne University to discuss the opportunities to address inequalities and shortcomings of justice through distributed networks. Among a panel a great speakers, I was lucky enough to present the early stages of my research. You can find the slideshow below. You can also find the full program of the conference here. In my talk I started by doing a…

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