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I don't know if you have noticed, but there seems to have been a lot | :00:00. | :00:33. | |
This week, Click is taking a trip to Paris, where this weekend, | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
the French take to the polls in the first round of | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
And curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
seems, if anything, to be going backwards. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
In the last election, France did allow online voting | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
For both the presidential elections and the legislative elections, | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
in June, it is back to pen and paper. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
And that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the French national | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Queues of people, paper voting - surely there has to be a better way. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Well, we asked BBC Newsbeat's political editor Jonathan Blake | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Ancient institutions and modern technology. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
As elections are held worldwide throughout 2017, | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
that could radically reshape the political landscape, | :01:34. | :01:34. | |
most people will cast their vote in the same way it has been done | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
for decades, using a pencil and paper to put a cross in a box. | :01:39. | :01:52. | |
One company is working on a way to make voting more convenient and, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
they say, more secure, with an app that lets you register | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
It uses facial biometrics, and combines that with some sort | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
of government document, whether it is a passport or driver's | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
licence, to create a digital identity, which the voter | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
So this is a demonstration version of the app which Smartmatic have | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
We will start by registering, first of all. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
We'll go with driver's licence, because I have that handy. | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
Once the ID is matched to your face, the app confirms | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
And we are voting for Rushfield Borough Council, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
It's asked me to take a photo, so if I hold up the camera, | :02:34. | :02:48. | |
So here there is a list of candidates, the same | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
as you would see on the ballot paper. | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
I don't need to tell you who I'm voting for, | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
You are asking people to take a photo of their face, | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
capture an image of the photo identification. | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
How secure is that information, where does it go? | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
The digital identity you create is unique to you, | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
and it stays on your device, on your personal mobile phone | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
or tablet, whatever it is you use to take it. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
You are in control of it at all times, and you are in control | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
of what pieces of information you use to create that idea, | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
But concerns about cyber security mean countries once embracing | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
the use of technology in democracy are having second thoughts. | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
In the Netherlands, where the voting system has been computerised | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
since 2008, this year they are counting votes by hand. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
But the country that has earned a reputation as the electronic | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
voting capital of the world is sticking to its guns. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
Estonia is almost obsessive about its digital identity. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Here in Estonia, everyone from the age of 15 carries | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Using this, and accompanying PIN numbers, you can access your bank, | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
phone company, energy firm, but also a lot of official information. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
You can see this man's name, address, date of birth, | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
where he went to school, health records, everything down | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
In Estonia, voting is just another thing you can do online. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Download software, use your ID card and PIN to make a selection, | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
and vote from the comfort of your home, or wherever is convenient. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Around one in three votes is now cast online, but officials admit it | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
The internet voter is a transformed paper voter. | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
Having a novelty, a convenient method of voting, is not enough | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
to bring people from the "no voting" zone back to voting, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Of course, you need other incentives. | :04:55. | :05:09. | |
Other countries seem reluctant to follow Estonia's lead. | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
The British Minister responsible for elections told me the Government | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
is looking only at taking very small steps. | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
They have identification cards, and they keep the systems. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
It is a very different space to what we have in the UK, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
where they don't have a privacy agenda, about protecting individual | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
citizens' rights, and protecting their own data. | :05:26. | :05:26. | |
Going forwards, we have got to make sure that, | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
while we embrace technology and we embrace things like online | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
registration, online voting is a situation where, | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
if we believe the current paper-and-pen method is the best way | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
forward, then actually, it means that each individual's vote | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
As technology advances, calls to digitise democracy | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
will continue, but so will concerns about cyber security, | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
so the pencil and paper may well always have its place. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
And how would you feel about renting your car | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Well, believe it or not, here, there is an app that lets | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Drivy has been operating for six years. | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
Over 40,000 car owners have chosen to list their cars on the platform, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
mainly in France, Germany, and Spain, racking up one-and-a-half | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
The app gives me a list of vehicles available in the designated area | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
And then I can swipe through pictures and details | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Yeah, it's basically Airbnb, but for your car. | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
Right, first impressions of the Drivy office, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
But how has this company persuaded thousands of people | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
I don't know whether it is because I'm British, | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
but I think it's a crazy idea to randomly hire my car out | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Do you not think that no one will partake of this, | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
because of the risk of damage and having your car stolen? | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
We definitely knew from the start that it would sound like a crazy | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
idea to lend your car, to most people. | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
The question was, would some people agree it was a good idea, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
and that it's efficient, and how do I protect these people | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
who are willing to try, rather than convince the majority. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Do you think there is a reason why sharing services do very well here? | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Yeah, I think that France is special, because it has the right | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
mix of being, like, still a rich country, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
where the law is really enforced, where business is going well, | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
So I think it's the right balance for sharing economy to thrive. | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
British and Americans are more scared about lending their cars. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
I'm not really sure, I don't know, but I heard that you teach kids | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
And that is something that I absolutely don't know in France. | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
So maybe less trust of people you don't know, and less willingness | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
to share time, or things, with other people. | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
You have been to London, then, clearly. | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
With Drivy Open, which is our big technological focus, | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
now, we can geo-locate cars, see where the car is going, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
You can use the accelerometer to see if there were impacts. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
And basically, the future which is coming, which is all | :08:25. | :08:36. | |
about connected cars, and then autonomous, | :08:37. | :08:37. | |
cars is playing huge in our favour, because increasingly, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
the amount of data you have on the car, the control over the way | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
it's driven is going to increase until it's autonomous, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
and then whoever is in the car is no longer a problem, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
except for sandwich crumbs or stuff like that. | :08:52. | :09:09. | |
Not that red tape is was a problem here. | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
One start-up, in a northern suburb of Paris, has already been given | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
permission to place three of its pods around the city. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
So, what on Earth is Agricool putting inside these second-hand | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
shipping containers that makes | :09:24. | :09:24. | |
You probably know that fruit sold in city supermarkets has usually | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
been on a long journey, over several days, to get there. | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
And that means it has to be picked before it's ripe, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
and isn't as sweet or nutritious as it would be if it was left | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Well, this is a way of keeping fruit on the plant, in cities, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
There you go, four walls of strawberries bathing | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Here's all the water that you need, which is pumped in, and then | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
when it's finished, it's pumped back out again. | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Here are your nutrients, and over here, a box of bumblebees. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Did you know you could order bumblebees by the box? | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
That's where they live, that's where they travel in and out, | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
and that's where the pollination happens. | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
Agricool is currently experimenting with different colours of light | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
and different mixes of nutrients in order to get | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Well, inside each shipping container, we create a real paradise | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
So best air, the CO2 level, the best lights, with LED lights. | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
We can grow the equivalent of 4000 square metres in only | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
So it is like 120,000 times more productive, | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
using 90% less water, using no pesticides, | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
actually, and using only renewable energy. | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
Just to be clear, these shipping containers won't move, | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
they'll be permanent fixtures in cities. | :11:00. | :11:00. | |
And with a minutely controlled climate, a new batch of strawberries | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
can be grown every 11 weeks, meaning city folk can experience | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
the taste of country living all year round. | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
And that is it for the short cut of Click. Plenty more from us online. | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
Thank you for watching. Everyone back to mine | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
for strawberries. | :11:30. | :11:32. |