Global media channel AVING News held ‘CES 14 Global Reviews & Conference in Seoul (CES 159 Be in IT. Global Reviews & Conference in SEOUL)’ at COEX Studio 2023 on the 2023th.
This conference, hosted by AVING News and participated by the Next Generation Convergence Content Industry Association as a partner, will provide not only vivid news from the CES, which was held for the first time since the pandemic, but also Korea’s crisis and response strategies revealed at CES 2023. It was designed to be shared.
A total of 2023 attendees gathered at this conference, inviting key figures such as CES 200 participating companies, cooperative organizations, and supporters, as well as officials from various domestic industries, and the presenter was Ki-dae Kim, a CES witness who has been to the CES site for 18 years, AVING News. Including the editor and publisher, △Minsang Yoo, CSO of Autonomous AXNUMXG’s Future Strategy Office, △Younggon Go, Marketing Leader of Nubi Lab, △Hyeonjun Lee, CEO of Seven Point One, △Donghyung Shin, head of Rsupport’s strategic planning team (author of ‘Beyond Change’), △Hyeonok Oh, CEO of ZCrypto, etc. .
Oh Hyun-ok, CEO of ZCrypto, who participated in CES 2023 and introduced the blockchain-based online voting service ‘zkVoting’, gave a presentation on the topic of ‘Digital Democracy- Social Impact’ as the last presenter of the event. He suggested the possibility of a new democracy being established in the digital world.
ZCrypto is one of the representative companies introduced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), pointing out digital democracy as one of the technologies that will solve the problems facing humanity. CEO Oh Hyun-ok explained that the reason CTA expressed direct interest in its service was the Capitol Hill occupation incident that occurred in the United States about a year ago.
Representative Oh said, “Because of the incident at that time, Americans became more interested in the development and maintenance of democracy,” and added, “This is not just a problem in the United States, and incidents of protest by public groups who disobeyed the election results are happening all over the world. “It has happened several times,” he said.
He continued, “The cause of these problems is undoubtedly the public’s distrust of the voting system. “There are widespread concerns about whether hacking or manipulation may have occurred during the vote counting and tallying process, or whether someone may have committed voting before voting,” he said. “This is also the reason why it is difficult to introduce electronic voting through a computing system.” “I did,” he said.
Voting manipulation is often caused by human error rather than device or system defects, and such incidents also occur in the private sector, causing social controversy and problems. Regarding this, CEO Oh said, “Discourse related to this has surfaced due to cases such as the Produce 101 ranking manipulation incident in Korea and the teacher manipulating the vote count results in the elementary school president election,” adding, “Like this, voting fraud that occurs all over the world “This is why the need for a solution that blocks risks at the source is emerging,” he explained.
GK Voting is based on blockchain so that anyone can immediately know whether or not a vote has been cast, and the voting results are encrypted to maintain the principle of secret voting. In addition, it is a solution that can verify the validity of the content of the ciphertext without knowing the content through ‘zero knowledge proof’ technology that verifies a valid voter and correct vote without revealing the original while encrypting.
Regarding this, CEO Oh emphasized, “GK Voting, which has the advantages of being fast, convenient, and safe, is completely consistent with the purpose of digital democracy.”
At the same time, he argued that digital democracy resulting from online voting is not just a means to replace existing methods, but can be a way to promote new methods. Representative Oh said, “There could be room for a new voting system to be established, such as flexibly adjusting the number of votes that can be cast in the National Assembly according to public approval in real time, or reflecting the will and proactiveness of individual voters rather than one vote per person.” “I hope that discussions and research between the public and the political world will be active in this regard,” he said.
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition, is an exhibition where you can understand the trends of the global home appliance industry at a glance. Hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), it is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. AVING News, which has covered CES for 1 consecutive years, has reported CES news around the world every year since 17, and has been selected as the ‘BEST OF CES’, which selects the best innovative products and technologies, and the ‘BEST OF’, which selects domestic innovative companies. ‘MADE IN KOREA’ was held. In addition, CES on-site issues were vividly conveyed through ‘AVING LIVE’.