Panel:
Facilitation as civic infrastructure
FearlessCities.nyc
July 2018
�Claudina Sarahe (@itsmisscs)�Liz Barry (@lizbarry)
Patrick Connolly (@patconnolly)
Ttcat
Wu, Min Hsuan
Deputy CEO,
Open Culture Foundation
g0v Hackathon organizer
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The Sunflower movement began with:�
massive
public
street �demonstrations
Photo credit: Evan Yu
and was supported by:�
open source
activist�technology
communities
Demonstrating against
Demonstrating for
Demonstrating process
Learning from Sunflower movement
Government data not open → information inequality
Policy making not transparent → distrust of government
Information overload → �hard to reach consensus
Online deliberation
How do we improve democracy by the bandwidth we have online today?
Too big power
Too little trust
Luke Duncan: Liquid Democracy, Ethereum, and the slow path to revolution. https://medium.com/hive-commons/liquid-democracy-ethereum-and-the-slow-path-to-revolution-9c1d5916e706
Luke Duncan: Liquid Democracy, Ethereum, and the slow path to revolution. https://medium.com/hive-commons/liquid-democracy-ethereum-and-the-slow-path-to-revolution-9c1d5916e706
Democracy = Vote?
Luke Duncan: Liquid Democracy, Ethereum, and the slow path to revolution. https://medium.com/hive-commons/liquid-democracy-ethereum-and-the-slow-path-to-revolution-9c1d5916e706
Fact-check?
Civil Society?
Values?
Human rights?
Background knowledge?
We want more dialogue before voting!
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關係圖
Deliberative (participatory) Democracy
talk
talk
talk
talk
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/scarcemed/deliberative-democracy
Deliberative (participatory) Democracy
Offline
Too much time
Too little scale
Online
Too big scale
Too little time
In deliberation, it’s not the amount of people that counts, but the diversity of opinions
Participatory Budget
Like “We the people”
vTaiwan
Pol.is
Taiwan Open Government Report 2014-2016
https://blog.pol.is/uber-responds-to-vtaiwans-coherent-blended-volition-3e9b75102b9b
AND, assistance from an online platform called pol.is:
The Blulu Metrics
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Why is it so difficult?
1.
Participation rate is low,
and most discussion happens somewhere else
Why is it so difficult?
2.
Rely on
Political will and Power
Why is it so difficult?
3.
Which stage of policy making is open?
The Blulu Metrics
Agenda Setting
Survey
Inform
Discussion
Voting
Decision
Respond
Accountability
Evaluation
Implementation
Legislation
Planning
Problem Analysis
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The Blulu Metrics
Agenda Setting
Survey
Inform
Discussion
討論
Voting
投票
Decision
Respond
Accountability
Evaluation
政策評估
Implementation
政策執行
Legislation
政策合法化
Planning
Problem Analysis
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Why is it so difficult?
4.
Institutionalized experimental models that create heavy burden on civil servants
Political Leader/ Civil servants / Intermediaries
Political Leader
Civil servants
Political Leader/ Civil servants / Intermediaries
Political Leader
Civil servants
Intermediaries
Public
gov
people
← participation space
Why it’s so difficult?
5.
How to improve the quality of discussion online?
fact-checking
Developing semi-automated tool
🔎
❤️
✅
💡
Facts
Feelings
Ideas
Decisions
Based on conversation in four stages:
✅
Why it’s so difficult?
6.
Imagination
accountability => trust
open (transparent)
open (decision-making)
open (participate)
Design the tools that empower not only the people but also civil society organizations and representatives => Value
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