Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in digital participation.
- Blockchain (Distributed Ledger, Distributed Ledger Technology, DLT)
- A blockchain is a distributed, append-only digital ledger in which records (blocks) are cryptographically linked and replicated across a decentralized network of nodes. No single party controls the da…
- Coercion Resistance (Receipt-Freeness, Anti-Coercion)
- Coercion resistance is a security property of voting systems that prevents a coercer from verifying how a voter cast their ballot, even if the voter cooperates with the coercer. A related but weaker p…
- Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO, Decentralised Autonomous Organisation)
- A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an internet-native collective governed by rules encoded in smart contracts on a blockchain, rather than by a centralized management hierarchy. Members …
- End-to-End Verifiability (E2E Verifiability, E2EV)
- End-to-end verifiability (E2EV) is a property of voting systems that allows voters to independently verify that their ballot was cast as intended, recorded as cast, and counted as recorded — without r…
- Internet Voting (E-Voting, Electronic Voting, i-Voting, Online Voting, Remote Electronic Voting)
- Internet voting (also known as e-voting or i-voting) is the casting and counting of votes via internet-connected systems, enabling voters to participate in elections from any location without attendin…
- Multi-Party Computation (MPC, Secure Multi-Party Computation, SMPC)
- Multi-party computation (MPC) is a subfield of cryptography that enables multiple parties to jointly compute a function over their private inputs while keeping those inputs secret from each other. No …
- Universal Verifiability (Public Verifiability)
- Universal verifiability is a security property of election systems that enables any third party — not just registered voters — to independently audit and confirm that the published election outcome co…
- Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP, Zero-Knowledge Protocol)
- A zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a cryptographic method by which one party (the prover) can convince another party (the verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the t…