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Title    Taiwan is Crowdsourcing an Everybody-Wins Democracy
Date    Tuesday January 12 2021, @03:39PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the Crowdsourced-Government dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/01/12/0334241

hendrikboom writes:

Taiwan has found a way to use a carefully designed social network constructively.
As stated in the Tyee,

Taiwan Is Crowdsourcing an Everybody-Wins Democracy

They had to do something. In 2014,

Opponents to the bill felt not just defeated, but invisible. The government had promised to listen to their concerns, but simply hadn't done so, rushing the bill onto the parliament floor. They had the votes; they could get it through. So that evening, protesters scaled the fence, kicked the door open and streamed onto the floor of Taiwan's parliament, the Legislative Yuan.

Sound familiar from recent history?

Well, the government found a way to listen.

They set up vTaiwan, a social network where prominence is given to posts that further concord instead of discord. And they're using it to craft proposals for legislation. Anyone can contribute.

The article doesn't state how the social network determines which posts promote consensus. I'd like to know.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "hendrikboom" - mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com
  2. "the Tyee" - https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/05/Taiwan-Crowdsourcing-Everyone-Wins-Democracy/
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=46688

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