Decentralized Policy Feedback System for Privacy and Governance using Blockchain and Sentiment Analysis for Smart City Applications
Abhik Kumar Banerjee, Sourav Mondal, Abhirup Deb, Sounak Ghosh · 2020 International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (ICCSEA) · 2020
In recent years, Blockchain has gained a lot of attention. From being associated with just Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency to being used by Industry for E-Governance, Monitoring and more. At the heart of it all is cryptographically secure and verifiable Ledger whose copies are maintained across network peers. This paper explores yet another use case of the Blockchain. The main idea is the use of Blockchain for recording Feedback to schemes framed by institutions for their members. It demonstrates how such a system can reduce corruption, increase the privacy of the governed and help frame better policies and regulations by combining Blockchain with Deep Learning by Sentiment Analysis on Edge to analyse the reception of the policy.