To whom may it concern,
This is Masakazu Kobayashi from Japanese trading/investment company Mitsubishi Corporation, contacting you on behalf of Kou-shi-kai(浩志会), a joint society in Japan composed of listed companies and government ministries.
We are planning a field trip to Taiwan from June 7th to 9th , and would like to have a meeting with anyone from g0v who are interested in our purpose of visit and have conversation with us.
Proposed time and date: Evening (probably after 16:30. TBD), June 7th
Place: 茹曦酒店 | OOPS創潮玩團
Please let us know if you need a translator and/or a person of contact in Taiwan for arrangements.
1. Who are we?:
Kou-shi-kai is a society founded in 1982 with 1,800 members from Japanese government ministries and listed companies. We aim to facilitate personal collaboration between private companies and government agencies to study and apply solutions to counter social problems in Japan.
Prospective government and company managers, during their ages in 40s, are invited to join two years of training program before attaining regular membership. These 150 candidates (研究会員) are divided into research groups called “Forums”, each conducting researches on updating social systems, building better relationships between government and civil society, and growing public minds among ordinary citizens. This field trip is planned by one of such Forums, in which I work as the leader.
2. Purpose of the Visit:
This year, our study topic is “How to nurture the public mind in the age of the individual.” My forum is coming to the conclusion that Japanese society needs to update communication between government and civil society. As half Taiwanese, I am aware that Taiwan is one of the successful case in which digital technology is fully utilized to update social communication. I saw project list in g0v website and came to understand that you have served the leading role updating how government and civil society communicate each other. This is why I strongly wish to introduce my Forum to g0v.
3. Topics of exchange:
How g0v motivated volunteers to join its activities? Actually, only small numbers of Japanese people are engaged in volunteers.
How engineers/programmers and non-programmers collaborate? In Japan, there is a large divide between programmers and non-programmers. Especially government members and company executives often don’t have any clue in technology.
Why government and g0v collaborate so well? In Japan, NPO/NGOs are often invited to join government committees, but final decisions are always government’s call and it’s rarely a collaboration.
If possible, we would like to learn about Government Budget Visualization as a case study.
From our side, we would like to share our situation in Japan.
4. Our members:
My Forum has 30 members from various major Japanese companies and government ministries, but since most members have to pay travel fee themselves, approximately 5~10 people are expected to join the trip.
Please consider announcing this plan among your team if it interest you. Thanks!
If anyone is interested, I will prepare Forms.
@masakazu.kobayashi はじめまして Kobayashi-san. This is chihao from the international taskforce of g0v.
First of all, thank you for expressing your interest at g0v. g0v is a polycentric community of civic hackers and self-governing projects promoting open culture and public good. There may be many perspectives from different contributors of the community. No one represents the entire community. Perhaps the best way to understand the community is to read the Manifesto. There is a
Japanese version!
For your invitation, I’ve taken the liberty of creating a HackMD collaborative document for it.
https://g0v.hackmd.io/amGF_30tRee8tcVVzurTAw HackMD is what most g0v projects use to collaborate, including the international taskforce.
Please feel free to edit and explain your organization and your event on the doc.
I also recommend creating a sign-up section in the document so that g0vers can sign up to your event!
Since g0v is founded on the foundation of open-source movement, I would encourage that your event produce something open-source as well. May I suggest that you make appropriate arrangement so that this HackMD doc can be used for meeting notes of your event? This way, this HackMD doc can be released under a CC-BY license and become your contribution to the community.
@chihao Thanks for creating HackMD doc! Your introduction to g0v is also helpful. Now I am starting to understand how it works in g0v 😀. Let me edit first and learn how to put sign-up section... Of course I would like to make it open-source.
@chihao It took me a while to learn HackMD editing. Finally finished the page and before adding sign-up section (google form), let me confirm g0v policies. Correct me if I'm wrong.
• This is not a tech event... So what we can produce as open-source is the discussed content itself.
• Discussion will be open so attendees should be careful about sensitive topics and information. No off-the-record allowed?
• Is Chatham house rule OK? Some of our members may be anonymous.
非常感謝您的幫助!
I appreciate if anyone can help! Hope someone will be interested to see us...
Because no-one is signed up, we have decided to cancel the event. Thanks for your attention.
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