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Publication Embargo Digital Democracy: A Secure Platform for Voting(IEEE, 2022-01-17) Peiris, K.T. I. U; Gunathilake, G. R. T; Attanayaka, J. A. E. P; Ilankoon, I. M. D. D; Chandrasiri, S. S; Wijendra, D. RThe voting system is the way to elect country representatives. It is a set of rules that determine how the elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Voting is commonly related to politics and is finished with exploitation and a manual approach. The voters stand to vote for his or her decision. There are many ways to conduct voting, and for a developing country like Sri Lanka, the polling power to have an excellent representative to develop the country into a better and prosperous one. Usually, the existing voting system is operated manually and sometimes may lead to malpractices. Many have suggested diverse ways to overcome the problems, and sometimes those recommendations have failed. The most reliable way to accomplish this is to expand the technology from manual voting systems to digital voting systems. There are several significant issues with introducing such a digital voting system. A significant problem here is the low level of technical knowledge among the people of Sri Lanka. Such a system would be a problem for some at once. This research paper aims to put forward a study on why and how it is necessary to shift from a standard voting system to a digital platform and how it saves time and energy.Publication Embargo Revitalizing ‘Digital Democracy’: Regulating Social Media Discourses in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences,SLIIT, 2021-09-25) Soorya, BDigitalization in the 21st century largely contributed to the evolution of the world. The idea of ‘Digital Democracy’ believes in improving democracy through more citizen discussion on public policies and active participation in decision-making processes in the digital sphere. Social media facilitates a large cluster of the public in promoting democratic values in cyberspace. Yet, such unfettered and unlimited opportunity occasionally clutches up, giving birth to the surfeit of hate speech and fake news as deleterious consequences. Sri Lanka also witnessed several incidents, including the social media cohesion, which arose immediately after the ‘Easter Sunday Attacks’ in 2019. The urge to regulate social media has been recognized all around the world. This research adopts a comprehensive socio-legal study addressing the compulsion of regulating social media to protect democratic values on the internet. The research primarily concentrates on the Sri Lankan legal jurisprudence while adopting a comparative study. The paper attempts to dive in and analyze the legal framework and the effectiveness in regulating social media in Sri Lanka. As a comparative view, the study suggests various measures adopted by different states in regulating social media. As the significant outcome of the paper, it proposes a combination of legal and extralegal measures that would be the prime choice in regulating social media in Sri Lanka without stifling the free speech and expression that are the backbones of a ‘democratic society.