Slides for Personal Democracy Forum in 2018 about experiments in Taiwan on prototyping future democracy, focusing on three projects: PO network, vTaiwan and Holopolis.

1. Prototyping
Future Democracy
Shu Yang Lin, re:architect of PDIS
Fang-jui Chang, Design Consultant of PDIS

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

3. We have an explosively
user-hostile tax reporting system.
“
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Chi-Yuan Cho, UX Designer
A Designer’s Petition
e-petition

4. Chin-Heng Yang,
Participation Officer,
Ministry of Finance
PO Network’s
monthly meeting
Every month,
Participation Officers bring
topics they feel needed to be
discussed with the network.

5. idea development session
Petitioner
present
Livestream
over the
InternetPO Network conducts
collaboration workshop
with all stakeholders

6. Participation Officer PDIS facilitator
workshop conductor
civil servants
contracted IT company rep citizens and users
civil servant
Eventually, the citizens co-created the
design of this year's tax exporting system.

7. They collaboratively delivered
a new design proposal

9. A movement that…
rides on years of revolution of
public participation in Taiwan
How did it happened?

10. Public
Participation
in Taiwan

11. Public
Participation
in Taiwan
FACE-TO-FACE TV, RADIO
THE INTERNET

12. Demonstrating real deliberation:
Sunflower Movement
Sunflower Movement,
18th, March, 2014
Inside the Parliament

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

14. We need to have a platform
to allow the entire society to
engage in rational discussion.
“
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The launch of vTaiwan
– Jaclyn Tsai,
former Minister of Cyberspace
g0v (pronounced “gov-zero”)
hackers hacking in hackathons

15. vTaiwan is a platform
and consultation process
for the civil society
to come together
and deliberate on
public policies.
Website
Hackathon
Consultation process
Consultation meeting

16. More about vTaiwan
on cases, participants, and process

17. Every case is different,
and should be treated differently.
Insight #1
Participants in a hackathon
Four common sessions in its process:
1) online opinion collection,
2) face to face consultation meeting,
3) collaborative bill drafting, and
4) bill delivery.
How do we decide each step
transparently?
“
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18. Participants are always different, and that’s good.
Insight #2
Uber case’s consultation meeting
People have been
participated as stakeholders
on different cases.
“
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UAV case’s consultation meeting
vTaiwan hackathon

19. vTaiwan is an ongoing experiment
Insight #3
fellowship model as
an approach for
open multi-stakeholder
governance model
Should it be institutionalized?
“
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Moderators play a key part in
vTaiwan’s model

20. Next Challenges…
case participantprocess

21. Next Challenges…
case participantprocess
DiversitySustainabilityScalability

22. More Experiments
more inclusive, intriguing, and infectious

23. Holopolis.pdis.tw

24. Experiment: holopolis bot
Always available participation:

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

26. Experiment: holopolis HiFi
Participation in virtual commons

27. Thank you.