Democratic cities 2017

Reinventing Democracy Shu Yang Lin, re:architect of PDIS

A story of‌ how a group of citizens kick-started the redesign of a decrepit tax reporting system

A Designer’s Petition

“

We have an explosively user-hostile tax reporting system.

”

Chi-Yuan Cho, UX Designer

e-petition

PO Network’s monthly meeting

Chin-Heng Yang, Participation Officer, Ministry of Finance

Every month, Participation Officers bring topics they feel needed to be discussed with the network.

Livestream over the Internet

PO Network conducts
 collaboration workshop with all stakeholders

Petitioner present

idea development session

Eventually, the citizens co-created the next year's tax exporting system. civil servant

Participation Officer

contracted IT company rep

PDIS facilitator

workshop conductor

civil servants

citizens and users

They collaboratively delivered 
 a new design proposal

A movement that‌ rides on years of evolvement of
 public participation in Taiwan

Public Participation in Taiwan

FACE-TO-FACE,

Public Participation in Taiwan

TELEVISION

THE INTERNET

Demonstrating real deliberation: 
 Sunflower Movement

Sunflower Movement, 18th, March, 2014

Inside the Parliament

An experiment that‌ prototypes an open stakeholder consultation process for the civil society – vTaiwan

The launch of vTaiwan

“

We need to have a platform to allow the entire society to engage in rational discussion.

”

– Jaclyn Tsai, former Minister of Cyberspace

g0v (pronounced “gov-zero”) hackers hacking in hackathons

vTaiwan is a platform and consultation process for the civil society to come together and deliberate on public policies.

Hackathon

Consultation meeting

Website

Consultation process

Some Reflections on cases, participants, and process

Insight #1

Every case is different, and should be treated differently.

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How do we decide each step transparently?

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Four common sessions in its process: 1) online opinion collection, 2) face to face consultation meeting, 3) collaborative bill drafting, and 4) bill delivery.

Participants in a hackathon

Insight #2

Participants are always different, and that’s good.

“

How might we expand the group dynamics?

Uber case’s consultation meeting

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vTaiwan hackathon UAV case’s consultation meeting

Insight #3

vTaiwan started as an experiment, and remains as an experiment.

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Is there a way to institutionalize this model?

fellowship model as an approach for open multi-stakeholder governance model

Moderators play a key part in vTaiwan’s model

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Next Challenges…

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How might we expand the group dynamics?

“

Is there a way to institutionalize this model?

commitment to participate

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” case process

“

How do we decide each step transparently?

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participants

More Experiments more inclusive, intriguing, and infectious

Holopolis

.pdis.tw

Experiment: holopolis bot Always available participation:

Experiment: holopolis MR Vote at virtually situated pop-up forums

Experiment: holopolis HiFi Participation in virtual commons

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