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I don't know if you have noticed, but there seems to have been a lot

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This week, Click is taking a trip to Paris, where this weekend,

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the French take to the polls in the first round of

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And curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote

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seems, if anything, to be going backwards.

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In the last election, France did allow online voting

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For both the presidential elections and the legislative elections,

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in June, it is back to pen and paper.

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And that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the French national

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cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk.

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Queues of people, paper voting - surely there has to be a better way.

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Well, we asked BBC Newsbeat's political editor Jonathan Blake

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Ancient institutions and modern technology.

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As elections are held worldwide throughout 2017,

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that could radically reshape the political landscape,

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most people will cast their vote in the same way it has been done

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for decades, using a pencil and paper to put a cross in a box.

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One company is working on a way to make voting more convenient and,

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they say, more secure, with an app that lets you register

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It uses facial biometrics, and combines that with some sort

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of government document, whether it is a passport or driver's

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licence, to create a digital identity, which the voter

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So this is a demonstration version of the app which Smartmatic have

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We will start by registering, first of all.

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We'll go with driver's licence, because I have that handy.

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Once the ID is matched to your face, the app confirms

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And we are voting for Rushfield Borough Council,

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It's asked me to take a photo, so if I hold up the camera,

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So here there is a list of candidates, the same

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as you would see on the ballot paper.

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I don't need to tell you who I'm voting for,

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You are asking people to take a photo of their face,

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capture an image of the photo identification.

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How secure is that information, where does it go?

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The digital identity you create is unique to you,

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and it stays on your device, on your personal mobile phone

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or tablet, whatever it is you use to take it.

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You are in control of it at all times, and you are in control

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of what pieces of information you use to create that idea,

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But concerns about cyber security mean countries once embracing

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the use of technology in democracy are having second thoughts.

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In the Netherlands, where the voting system has been computerised

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since 2008, this year they are counting votes by hand.

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But the country that has earned a reputation as the electronic

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voting capital of the world is sticking to its guns.

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Estonia is almost obsessive about its digital identity.

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Here in Estonia, everyone from the age of 15 carries

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Using this, and accompanying PIN numbers, you can access your bank,

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phone company, energy firm, but also a lot of official information.

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You can see this man's name, address, date of birth,

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where he went to school, health records, everything down

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In Estonia, voting is just another thing you can do online.

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Download software, use your ID card and PIN to make a selection,

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and vote from the comfort of your home, or wherever is convenient.

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Around one in three votes is now cast online, but officials admit it

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The internet voter is a transformed paper voter.

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Having a novelty, a convenient method of voting, is not enough

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to bring people from the "no voting" zone back to voting,

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Of course, you need other incentives.

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Other countries seem reluctant to follow Estonia's lead.

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The British Minister responsible for elections told me the Government

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is looking only at taking very small steps.

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They have identification cards, and they keep the systems.

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It is a very different space to what we have in the UK,

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where they don't have a privacy agenda, about protecting individual

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citizens' rights, and protecting their own data.

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Going forwards, we have got to make sure that,

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while we embrace technology and we embrace things like online

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registration, online voting is a situation where,

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if we believe the current paper-and-pen method is the best way

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forward, then actually, it means that each individual's vote

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As technology advances, calls to digitise democracy

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will continue, but so will concerns about cyber security,

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so the pencil and paper may well always have its place.

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And how would you feel about renting your car

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Well, believe it or not, here, there is an app that lets

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Drivy has been operating for six years.

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Over 40,000 car owners have chosen to list their cars on the platform,

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mainly in France, Germany, and Spain, racking up one-and-a-half

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The app gives me a list of vehicles available in the designated area

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And then I can swipe through pictures and details

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Yeah, it's basically Airbnb, but for your car.

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Right, first impressions of the Drivy office,

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But how has this company persuaded thousands of people

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I don't know whether it is because I'm British,

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but I think it's a crazy idea to randomly hire my car out

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Do you not think that no one will partake of this,

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because of the risk of damage and having your car stolen?

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We definitely knew from the start that it would sound like a crazy

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idea to lend your car, to most people.

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The question was, would some people agree it was a good idea,

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and that it's efficient, and how do I protect these people

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who are willing to try, rather than convince the majority.

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Do you think there is a reason why sharing services do very well here?

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Yeah, I think that France is special, because it has the right

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mix of being, like, still a rich country,

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where the law is really enforced, where business is going well,

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So I think it's the right balance for sharing economy to thrive.

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British and Americans are more scared about lending their cars.

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I'm not really sure, I don't know, but I heard that you teach kids

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And that is something that I absolutely don't know in France.

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So maybe less trust of people you don't know, and less willingness

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to share time, or things, with other people.

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You have been to London, then, clearly.

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With Drivy Open, which is our big technological focus,

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now, we can geo-locate cars, see where the car is going,

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You can use the accelerometer to see if there were impacts.

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And basically, the future which is coming, which is all

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about connected cars, and then autonomous,

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cars is playing huge in our favour, because increasingly,

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the amount of data you have on the car, the control over the way

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it's driven is going to increase until it's autonomous,

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and then whoever is in the car is no longer a problem,

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except for sandwich crumbs or stuff like that.

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Not that red tape is was a problem here.

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One start-up, in a northern suburb of Paris, has already been given

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permission to place three of its pods around the city.

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So, what on Earth is Agricool putting inside these second-hand

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shipping containers that makes

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You probably know that fruit sold in city supermarkets has usually

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been on a long journey, over several days, to get there.

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And that means it has to be picked before it's ripe,

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and isn't as sweet or nutritious as it would be if it was left

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Well, this is a way of keeping fruit on the plant, in cities,

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There you go, four walls of strawberries bathing

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Here's all the water that you need, which is pumped in, and then

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when it's finished, it's pumped back out again.

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Here are your nutrients, and over here, a box of bumblebees.

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Did you know you could order bumblebees by the box?

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That's where they live, that's where they travel in and out,

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and that's where the pollination happens.

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Agricool is currently experimenting with different colours of light

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and different mixes of nutrients in order to get

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Well, inside each shipping container, we create a real paradise

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So best air, the CO2 level, the best lights, with LED lights.

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We can grow the equivalent of 4000 square metres in only

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So it is like 120,000 times more productive,

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using 90% less water, using no pesticides,

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actually, and using only renewable energy.

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Just to be clear, these shipping containers won't move,

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they'll be permanent fixtures in cities.

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And with a minutely controlled climate, a new batch of strawberries

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can be grown every 11 weeks, meaning city folk can experience

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the taste of country living all year round.

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And that is it for the short cut of Click. Plenty more from us online.

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Thank you for watching. Everyone back to mine

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for strawberries.

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