Global Innovation Hub, Taipei
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) promotes democracy, human rights, economic freedom, and curbing climate change. In Taiwan, the FNF Global Innovation Hub was established in 2021. The Hub focuses on “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”, aiming to support the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on its way to becoming a creative innovation platform for liberalism. The Global Innovation Hub works with The Open Culture Foundation (OCF), Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy (TYAD), People Powered and other like-minded partners.
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Register for AI for Digital Democracy: How to Navigate Opportunities and Threats webinar on Feb.18. 2025!
In this webinar co-hosted by People Powerd and us on Feb.18. 2025, 3-4pm CET/9-10am ET, you will get to know how we should perceived the impact and opportunities that AI is to bring to participatory democracy, and the two new resources that we just launched: the Digital Participation module of the Participation Playbook and the updated Digital Participation Online Training. Come register!
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Digital Participation Online Training & Digital Participation Chapter of Participation Playbook—Essential Resources for Digital Democracy
People Powered and we would like to introduce you the Digital Participation Online Training and the Digital Participation Chapter of the Participation Playbook, two very helpful resources for anyone who wants to use digital platforms or tools to facilitate citizen participation in public policy or politics! Both will help you build your own digital participation programs from the ground up.
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RightsCon 2025: “They told me it's not your fault. And I told them everything will be fine.”
Following its first edition in September 2024 to widespread acclaim, the exhibition "They told me it's not your fault. And I told them everything will be fine" has been invited as an official side event of RightsCon 2025 in Taipei. The FNF foundation partners with Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) this time to invite artist Ting-Ting Cheng to present a bilingual (Mandarin Chinese and English) edition of the work, seeking to once again ignite public dialogue on issues surrounding body, gender, sexuality and human rights in the digital era, while expanding these discussions to a global audience.
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Youth Empowerment Project - Our Collaborations with Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy in 2024
In 2024, the Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy (TYAD) and the Global Innovation Hub of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom jointly organized the Youth Empowerment Project, which included the 2024 Gap Generation –Young Advocate Empowerment Camp held in Kaohsiung from April 20 to 21 and the 2024 Youth Mock Parliament Interpellation Seminars.
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How Public Participation Can Improve AI Governance: vTaiwan’s Initiatives
The civic tech project vTaiwan has gained international attention for its design of effective public participation mechanisms, which has led to the facilitation of over 20 legislative reviews in Taiwan. Most notably, in 2019, the platform hosted an online deliberation leading to regulatory adjustments for the ride-hailing platform Uber in Taiwan. In 2023, vTaiwan was relaunched as a community-based project. Now, they use their proven participatory approach to tackle the challenge of inclusive AI governance.
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Internet Shutdowns: The Rising Tactic of Authoritarian Control
Imagine waking up to a world with no internet—no news, no social media, no contact with loved ones. For millions, this is reality. Our new publication explores Internet Shutdowns and successful countermeasures.
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The Tech Radar: A publication series on emerging technologies and strategic foresight
The Tech Radar: A new publication series at the intersection of emerging technologies and strategic foresight by the Global Innovation Hub of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
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AI-Generated Disinformation in the 2024 Taiwan Presidential Election
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The Issue Is Not Unification, but Forced Unification
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When Globalisation Meets Geopolitics in the Semiconductor Supply Chain
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Examples of Civic Tech Communities-Governments Collaboration Around The World
10/2023Selengkapnya