Hurdles to overcome
Hurdles are not absent in erecting a decentralised and autonomous organisation. While e-HEAL functions on a peer-to-peer basis, typical concepts and important requirements in representative democracies are redefined. Accountability, for example, is of key importance in a health allocation scheme where lives are at stake. Accountability is essentially defined by a relationship between an actor and a forum, in which the actor has an obligation to explain his or her decisions and may face the consequences that unfold from a decision tree. e-HEAL, on the other hand, allows all members of the forum to share in the role of the actor and thus dissolves the roles of the actor and the forum into one another. However, while peers choose to take an active role or a passive role, an essential network rule that all participating peers agree to is that the most severely ill are prioritized. And, when two parties agree that the most unfavourably affected between them is prioritized, then the network ultimately converges to a medical safety net whose strength increases with increasing necessity. And, all peers are, collectively, accountable in upholding the essential network rule. However, in order to avoid any hurdles about the legal existence of an autonomous organisation, it might also be possible that holders of our governance token choose to legally own the organisation. Legal existance of e-HEAL DAO could ease much of the interactions where smart contracts would be difficult.
Contact the author
My name is Mehraj Parouty and I am currently living in Mauritius island. If you want to discuss this project in person, a meeting can easily be arranged on the island or possibly off the island as well. In any case, do feel free to send me an e-mail on e-heal@protonmail.com. Or, if you prefer to chat, a slack channel has been created at e-heal.slack.com. You could also write your message in the message box below. If there are bugs that I overlooked, please feel free to make changes on github.com/e-HEAL.