townsquare

A public grievance forum powered by KYC-ed ZKP wallets using MOI and 10M3

Theme picked

The theme we have picked is Smart City. The problem we are trying to solve is Public Participation.

Team composition details

The team is composed of Ganesh Prasad Kumble (Programmer implementing the screen and integrate MOI), Anantha Krishnan (non-technical member focused on ideation and design), and Rahul Lenkala (Programmer implementing the back end).

Brief description of the idea

Some people inhibit themselves from complaining about the government-related issues fearing retribution from public servants and other muscle forces. Although it is much easier to anonymize the people on online forums, it can easily turn into nightmare by miscreants who use the platform to bully other users/reports.

We plan to build a platform where people can openly report/comment on ongoing issues in a pseudonymous manner without fearing retribution yet participate responsibly by KYC-ing themselves using a wallet. The platform could also democratically decide whether to reveal or hide the KYC from L&O departments in case of malicious activities, without giving complete control to the government.

Technological Solution

We planned to develop a governance app to raise issues and welcome fellow residents grouped by their PIN Codes to vote on the changes. We identify each user/resident with a MOI ID, a ZK-proofed KYC-ed wallet provisioned by 10M3. This way, users can sign up to a new wallet, KYC themselves, and join the public community through 10M3 wallet. Using this ZK-proofed and KYC-ed wallet, users can propose changes and vote on changes in a pseudonymous way, yet giving assurance to the government that they are actual residents without revealing their Identity publicly.

Tech stack used

Front End: React.js
Wallet: 10M3
Chain: INDUS
Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript

Instructions

First things first, you'll need private beta access to the Web MOI ID SDK. You can reach out to Sai or Arun.

When you get access to the SDK, which is an npm module, you can clone it next to this project root directory.

git clone https://github.com/sarvalabs/js-moi-id.git

Once you have cloned the SDK, go ahead and install the dependencies:

npm i

Once the dependencies are installed, you'll have to link this package to your global node_modules:

npm link

Finally, you'll cd back to the project root directory and link the js-moi-id SDK here:

npm link js-moi-id

Now that you've setup MOI ID related dependencies, let us install other project dependencies from npm in the project. In the project root repo, execute:

npm i

Finally, its now time to run the app:

npm run start

Once you run the app, the development server hosts the app on http://localhost:3000/

Voila, the app will now ask you to login via MOI ID as shown in the screenshot below:

Once you login, you may access the rest of the screens.

Thank you

We'd like to thank Arun and Sai for their help in integration with MOI ID and share feedback on the screens!