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Taken as a whole, the process vTaiwan has created amounts to a rethinking of how citizens send signals on complex issues, and how government listens and decisions result. Consensus-building combined with facilitation to derive “coherent, blended volition,” (as worded by Audrey Tang) can renew the value of public discourse, and leverage the true strengths of diversity in a civil society."
Description. Jess Scully: "Taiwan’s civic hackers were organized around a leaderless collective called g0v (pronounced “gov zero.”) Many believed in radical transparency, in throwing opaque processes open to the light, and in the idea that everyone who is affected by a decision should have a say in it. They preferred establishing ...
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Jess Scully: " vTaiwan. (The “v” stands for virtual.) A mixed-reality, scaled listening exercise, it was an entirely new way to make decisions. The platform invites citizens into an online space for debate that politicians listen to and take into account when casting their votes. Government would start a new vTaiwan process on a political question ...
"Polis seeks to give citizens a dynamic overview of the entire spectrum of opinion around a discussion topic and has been seen as a highly effective direct and deliberative democracy social media tool . It allows the government to pose policy questions to the public and then uses statistical summarization to provide graphical feedback on what the p...
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Jess Scully: "The Taiwan model may be catching on. Polis was used to bring 2,000 people together at a virtual town hall in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Asked how to improve the local area, residents found consensus around improving traffic flow, adding bike lanes, beautification of the waterfront, even access to broadband internet services. The local government of Newham in the UK used it to help inform parking policy. And in Singapore, the government used it to hear from young people about their...
= concept and book Graphic via Concept "Government as Platform (GAP) is the idea that the functions of government should be delivered by creating a framework of open and accessible elements, that citizens can interact with and combine in order to deliver ...
The History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for people to conduct grassroots-level investigations on any issue, providing the public with a useful tool to conduct oversight of government and private sector
Description. Timothy Wilken: " Unanimous Rule Democracy or Synocracy is a much more powerful mechanism of decision making than the majority rule of present day democracy. Synocracy is a synergic form of government. Synergy means working together—operating together as in Co-Operation—laboring together as in Co-Laboration—acting together as ...
"“Democracy cannot function without an epistemically healthy public sphere that makes it possible for democratic self-government to achieve successful outcomes, maintain its legitimacy, and avoid runaway concentrations of power in society.
