The “Tokenization” of the eParticipation in Public Governance: An Opportunity to Hack Democracy Benítez Martínez, Francisco Luis Hurtado Torres, María Visitación Romero Torres, Esteban Governance Blockchain Participation Currently Distributed Ledger Technologies-DLTs, and especially the Blockchain technology, are an excellent opportunity for public institutions to transform the channels of citizen participation and reinvigorate democratic processes. These technologies permit the simplification of processes and make it possible to safely and securely manage the data stored in its records. This guarantees the transmission and public transparency of information, and thus leads to the development of a new citizen governance model by using technology such as a BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) platform. G-Cloud solutions would facilitate a faster deployment in the cities and provide scalability to foster the creation of Smart Citizens within the philosophy of Open Government. The development of an eParticipation model that can configure a tokenizable system of the actions and processes that citizens currently exercise in democratic environments is an opportunity to guarantee greater participation and thus manage more effective local democratic spaces. Therefore, a Blockchain solution in eDemocracy platforms is an exciting new opportunity to claim a new pattern of management amongst the agents that participate in the public sphere. 2021-05-20T11:34:56Z 2021-05-20T11:34:56Z 2019-06-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Benítez Martínez F.L., Hurtado Torres M.V., Romero Frías E. (2020) The “Tokenization” of the eParticipation in Public Governance: An Opportunity to Hack Democracy. In: Prieto J., Das A., Ferretti S., Pinto A., Corchado J. (eds) Blockchain and Applications. BLOCKCHAIN 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1010. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23813-1_14 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-23813-1_14#copyrightInformation http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68591 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23813-1_14 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Springer, Cham