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Page | 14 Jul 2020

The Democracy Notary

The Democracy Notary verifies the authenticity of your documents. Trusted civil society organizations vetted by the Design 4 Democracy Coalition are able to upload their document to the cryptographically secured Emercoin blockchain to verify that it's an unalterable, timestamped, validated original or manipulated copy.

Main sectors: Government & Public & Social Services

Main applications: Public Records

Established in: 1984

URL: https://democracynotary.org/en.html

 

Organisation: National Democratic Institute (NDI), Citizens' Assoc MOST, Emercoin

Organisation type: Companies (non-profit) – Enterprise (more than 250 employees)

Founders: Chris Doten; Jennifer Brody A; Allison Price

Partners: Design 4 democracy Coalition; Blockchain trust accelerator; Emercoin

Country: Macedonia

City: Skopje

Stage of project: Pilot

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Other

Other technologies: N/A

 

Whitepaper: N/A

Github: N/A

Twitter: N/A

 

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.