e-Participation for Socially Disadvantaged People
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- Taipei City social housing case, most of the work fone by Lu Chia-Hua, I’m just an advisor in the process and I’m happy to share the story here with you.
- In late 2014, Taipei City elected its first non-partisan mayor, Dr. Ko. He supported the occupiers in the Sunflower movement, and formed the civic participation council as soon as he took office. Lu Chia-Hua, my colleague in the vTaiwan project, joined the council as the convener of civic participation last year.
- Last september, we built a visualization of the city budget and engaged public servants for dialogue.
- the social affairs bureau raised an issue they’re working on: By law the public housing allocation, originally just 10% to low-income households, the Taipei City Government to allocate 20% more to the socially disadvantaged.
- Among them: lone elders, aborigines, single parents, mentally and handicapped people, and people living with immunodeficiency, The mayor said: The stakeholders must decide among themselves what is fair. But how do we reach these people?
- We used rolling surveys.
- After that, we get the director recording a video of the process, and accept it as binding.
- In the beginning of the process, we form a working group out of stakeholders who are willing to participate in agenda setting.
- The working group tallied the social housing supply with public servants, and provided several concrete cases to compare various options — drawing lots? Counting points?
- Then we hold a preparatory meeting, just among the stakeholder groups
- Here is how we build weak-weak empathy and determine principles. (explain weak-weak cannibalism, using aborigine as example)
- Then we invite the general public to propose useful implementation of the principles (use lottery example)
- Every meeting was transcribed back online; every online opinion is summarized and dislpayed in the beginning of a f2f meeting.
- After people converged to a shared set of sentiments, we hold a general-assembly like consensus meeting to collect into coherent suggestional
- During the four-month process, we got many suggestions outside of the original agenda; reviewed every 3 to 6 month
- F2f and net meetings both have their process, but it is the iteration that makes it powerful, that makes it like a reality TV show where everybody can participate.
- Sometimes, digital technology creates a “Matthew effect”; people with more free time use them more effectively, but socially disadvantaged people don’t have much free time to begin with. This is why Diversity and Inclusion is of utmost importance. Thank you!