EUNOMIA is a fully decentralised, intermediary-free and open-source solution for addressing three key challenges: (a) Which social media user is the original source of a piece of information? (b) How this information has spread and been modified in an information cascade? (c) How likely is the information to be trustworthy?
EUNOMIA employs the human-as-a-trust-sensor paradigm, which actively encourages democratic citizen participation by allowing voting on content trustworthiness and influencing the reputation of content generators and sharers. It combines information cascade verification with information trustworthiness scoring, benefitting from blockchain technology to ensure transparency of the scoring process and that information has not been modified in a cascade.
EUNOMIA follows the design principles of open-source intermediary-free decentralised social media. It empowers social media users by providing them with tools to improve the quality of information sharing, which in turn can help increase the level of responsibility in their engagement with social media. Users will be more certain about the provenance and quality of the content they consume, while the media will be more credible sources of news dissemination, thus challenging the accumulation of power in social media intermediaries, such as Facebook and Twitter. EUNOMIA’s versatility will be evaluated on three use-cases: Social journalism, traditional media and an existing decentralised social media community.
Project Τitle:
EUNOMIA – EUNOMIA_USER-ORIENTED, SECURE, TRUSTFUL & DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA
Project Duration: 1 December 2018 – 30 November 2021
Project URL: https://eunomia.social/
Project Framework & Funding:
EU Horizon 2020 – H2020-ICT-2018-2 / IA – Innovation Action
Funding: 367.725,00 €
Scientific coordinator (UNIWA): Dr Charalampos Z. Patrikakis (Professor), Email: bpatr@uniwa.gr, Tel: +30-2105381534
Consortium – Partners:
- University of Greenwich (UOG) (Coordinator)
- IT HUB SRL (BLA)
- Trilateral Research Limited (TRI IE)
- SYNYO GmbH (SYNYO)
- Inov Inesc Inovacao- Instituto de novas technologias (INOV)
- Panepistimio Dytikis Attikis (UWA)
- Siveco Romani SA (SIV)
- EDEX- Educational Excellence Corporation Limited (UNIC)
- Osterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
- Rochko Eugen (EGR)
Research Publications / Results / Patents (up to 3)
- P. Kasnesis, R. Heartfield, L. Toumanidis, X. Liang, G. Loukas, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “A Prototype Deep Learning Paraphrase Identification Service For Discovering Information Cascades in Social Networks”, in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2020), accepted for presentation.
- L. Toumanidis, R. Heartfield, P. Kasnesis, G. Loukas, C. Patrikakis, “A Prototype Framework for Assessing Information Provenance in Decentralised Social Media: The EUNOMIA Concept”, in proceedings of International Conference on e-Democracy, pp. 196-208, 2019.
- D. G. Kogias, H. C. Leligou, M. Xevgenis, M. Polychronaki, E. Katsadouros, G. Loukas, R. Heartfield, and C. Z. Patrikakis, “Toward a Blockchain-Enabled Crowdsourcing Platform”, in IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 21., Is. 5, pp. 18-25, 2019.
