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# 0306小松 時間：19:00-21:00 地點：線上 參與者： 線上參與連結 / Link：<https://meet.jit.si/vTaiwan> ## 活動或可以投入的事情 - 本週收到

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# 0306小松 時間：19:00-21:00 地點：線上 參與者：Crystal, eli, peter, josh 線上參與連結 / Link：<https://meet.jit.si/vTaiw>

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法律規定社會上每個人的權利與義務，因此法規應該具備哪些內容，不只是行政立法部門的工作，而與每個人都切身相關。 越多利益關係人加入討論，就能夠讓法規的內容越完整周延，避免出現權益受到影響、但意見又無法表達的矛盾狀況。參與 vTaiwan，不只能夠照顧到自己的權益，同時也是在幫助每一個可能的利益關係人。 3 Followers.

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我問了國發會資管處窗口 今天都可收件，不是下班前 台灣時間 3/8 晚上 23:59 之前 下一階段開放政府國家行動方案提案表格 <https://join.gov.tw/policies/detail/cbba96d5-537e-4e3e-a18a-5ddc61fa8bfc>

我問了國發會資管處窗口 今天都可收件，不是下班前 台灣時間 3/8 晚上 23:59 之前 下一階段開放政府國家行動方案提案表格 <https://join.gov.tw/policies/detail/cbba96d5-537e-4e3e-a18a-5ddc61fa8bfc>

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*The Life of a Digital Democracy* > When we see "internet of things," let's make it an *internet of beings*. > When we see "virtual reality," let's make it a *shared reality*. > When we see "machine learning," let's make it *collaborative learning*. > When we see "user experience," let's make it *about human experience*. > When we hear “the singularity is near” — let us remember: The *Plurality* is here. Without living in Taiwan and experiencing it regularly, it is hard to grasp what such an achievement means, and for those living their continuously many of these features are taken for granted. Thus we aim here to provide concrete illustrations and quantitative analyses of what distinguishes Taiwan's digital civic infrastructure from those of most of the rest of the world. Because there are far too many examples to discuss in detail, we have selected six diverse illustrations that roughly cover a primary focal project for each two year period since 2012; after we briefly list a wide range of other programs. *g0v* More than any other institution, g0v (pronounced gov-zero) symbolizes the civil-society foundation of digital democracy in Taiwan. Founded in 2012 by civic hackers including Kao Chia-liang, g0v arose from discontent with the quality of government digital services and data transparency<https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality/blob/main/contents/english/02-02-the-life-of-a-digital-democracy.md#user-content-fn-g0vManifesto-c42724d91a763704f68c85a4c288a10c|1>. Civic hackers began to scrape government websites (usually with the suffix <http://gov.tw|gov.tw>) and build alternative formats for data display and interaction for the same website, hosting them at <http://g0v.tw|g0v.tw>. These "forked" versions of government websites often ended up being more popular, leading some government ministers, like Simon Chang to begin "merging" these designs back into government services. <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pluralitybook/plurality/main/figs/g0v-venn.png|g0v-venn> g0v built on this success to establish a vibrant community of civic hackers interacting with a range of non-technical civil society groups at regular hackathon, called "jothons" (based on a Mandarin play on words, meaning roughly "join-athon"). While hackathons are common in many parts of the world, some of the unique features of g0v practices include the diversity of participant (usually a majority non-technical and with nearly full gender parity), the orientation towards civic problems rather than commercial outcomes and the close collaboration with a range of civic organizations. These features are perhaps best summarized by the slogan "Ask not why nobody is doing this. You are the 'nobody'!", which has led the group to be labeled the "nobody movement". They are also reflected in a venn diagram commonly used to explain the movement's intentions shown above. As we will note below, a majority of the initiatives we highlight grew out of g0v and closely aligned projects. *Sunflower* While g0v gained significant public attention and support even in its earliest years, it burst most prominently onto the public scene during the Sunflower Movement we described above. Hundreds of contributors in the g0v community were present during the occupation of the Legislative Yuan (LY), aiding in broadcasting, documenting and communicating civic actions. Livestream-based communication sparked heated discussion among the public. Street vendors, lawyers, teachers, and designers rolled up their sleeves to participate in various online and offline actions. Digital tools brought together resources for crowdfunding, rallies, and international voices of support. On March 30, 2014, half a million people took to the streets in the largest demonstration in Taiwan since the 1980s. Their demands, thus formulated, for a review process prior to the passage of the Cross-Straits Services Trade Agreement was accepted by LY Speaker Wang Jin-pyng on April 6, about three weeks after the start of the occupation, leading to its dispersal soon thereafter. The contributions of g0v to both sides and the resolution of their tensions led the sitting government to see the merit in g0v's methods and in particular cabinet member Jaclyn Tsai recruited one of us as a youth "reverse mentor" and began to attend and support g0v meetings, putting an increasing range of government materials into the public domain through g0v platforms. Many Sunflower participants devoted themselves to the open government movement; the following local (2014) and general (2016) elections saw a dramatic swing in outcomes of roughly 10 percentage points towards the Green camp, as well as the establishment of a new political party by the Sunflower leaders, the New Power Party, including leading Taiwanese rock star Freddy Lim. Together, these events significantly added to the momentum behind g0v and led to one of our appointment as Minister without Portfolio responsible for open government, social innovation and youth participation. *vTaiwan and Join* During this process of institutionalization of g0v, there was growing demand to apply the methods that had allowed for these dispute resolutions to a broader range of policy issues. This led to the establishment of vTaiwan, a platform and project developed by g0v for facilitating deliberation on public policy controversies. The process involved many steps (proposal, opinion expression, reflection and legisation) each harnessing a range of open source software tools, but has become best known for its use of the at-the-time(2015)-novel machine learning based open-source "wikisurvey"/social media tool Polis, which we discuss further in our chapter on 05-04 Augmented Deliberation below. In short, Polis works much like a conventional microblogging service like Twitter/X except that rather than displaying content that maximizes engagement it shows the clusters of opinion that exist and highlights statements that bridge them to faciliate both consensus formation and the better understanding of lines of division. <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pluralitybook/plurality/main/figs/vtaiwan-polis.png|vtaiwan-polis> vTaiwan was deliberately intended as an experimental, high-touch, intensive platform for committed participants. It had about 200,000 users or about 1% of Taiwan's population at its peak and held detailed deliberations on 28 issues, 80% of which led to legislative action. These focused mostly on questions around technology regulation, such as the regulation of ride sharing, responses to non-consensual intimate images, regulatory experimentation with financial technology and regulation of AI. While these were generally viewed as successful by all parties, the intensive effort required, the lack of mandates for government to respond and the somewhat narrow scope has led to a relative decline of the platform recently. The Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS) that one of us established in 2016 to work with vTaiwan and other projects we discuss below in the ministerial role therefore supported a second, related platform Join. While Join also sometime used Polis, it has a lighter-weight user interface and focuses primarily on soliciting input, suggestions and initatives from a broader public, and has an enforcement mechanism where government officials must respond if a proposal receives sufficient support. Unlike vTaiwan, furthermore, Join addresses a range of policy issues, including controversial non-technological issues such as high school's start time, and has strong continuing usage today of roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors. *Hackathons, coalitions and quadratic signals* While such levels of digital civic engagement may seem surprising to many Westerners, they can be seen simply as the harnessing of a small portion of the energy typically wasted on conflict on (anti-)social media towards solving public problems. Even more co…

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# 20240327小松 時間：19:00-21:00 地點：線上 參與者：ELi 線上參與連結 / Link：<https://meet.jit.si/vTaiwan>

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Video will kill the truth if monitoring doesn’t improve, argue two researchers

Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness share lessons from Taiwan for fighting disinformation