S.P.Q.E

Just getting started. ETA of first alpha: March/April 2016

This is a proof-of-concept version of a fully auditable decentralized government platform. It will allow elections, voting, banking, and other things. The goal is to explore the use of smart-contracts and blockchains in government. Hopefully it can later be coupled with off-chain services such as banking and E-citizenship systems.

The prototype will be restricted to the EU (i.e. be compliant with EU law).

This is a politically neutral project. The goal is to test this tech with government, much like it's being tested in finance, insurance, and many other fields. It's neither for nor against the EU - the testing ground just happens to be Europe.

The application is built on top of the DAO framework - a framework for modular systems of Ethereum contracts.

NOTE: Ethereum is still experimental, and so is this code. Using this on a chain where Ether has real value, or in any form of production environment is not recommended. Also, on-chain contracts are not legally binding.

Table of Content

• Dependencies and Tools
• Building, Testing and Documentation
• Troubleshooting
• Business
• Licence

Dependencies and Tools

Only tested on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04+

Command-line Gulp is used for building and deploying.

You need solc (latest dev) and gpp on your path to compile locally.

Building, testing and doc generation can be done for each module separately. Check the README in each folder for instructions. It can also be done for the entire framework at once using Gulp.

NOTE: This requires that the dependencies are in place.

Building

NOTE: You need solc on path.

Gulp: $ gulp build:contracts

Testing

Gulp: $ gulp test:contracts

Troubleshooting

This library is only officially supported on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04+, although it should work on recent OSX versions. I will look into building on Windows when I have time.

I don't know what any of this is

https://ethereum.org/

I don't know how to read the contract code

http://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

I can't build the contracts

This is normally because you don't have solc installed and on your path. solc is a C++ library but they are thinking about building a command-line version in javascript, that extends the Emscripten compiled version, which will make it easier to install and use.

I can't test the contracts

This is normally because the contract build folders has been tampered with, or because sol-unit can't be installed.

I can't build html documentation

This could be because you don't have NaturalDocs on your path.

Licence

The entire framework is licensed under MIT.