Ya-Wei Chou
Contributions
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AI for Democracy, More Digital Participation Best Practices from across the World, and More in the New Digital Participation Guide!
This year, People Powered collaborated with us again to update their Digital Participation Guide and Rating by adding a chapter on how AI can facilitate public participation, as well as including more case studies of best practice from around the world. Come and take a look!
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Why Do We Need the Civic Tech Project and Community Handbook to Save Our Democracy in Crisis? Find out What Our Panellists Said at our Release Event!
On May 29, we invited experts from around the world to join the online release event for the Civic Tech Project and Community Handbook, which was co-developed by g0v Jothon, us, and all the contributors. The experts analysed the current crisis of democracy and explained why the handbook can inspire action to tackle it.
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Students in Bonn Test an AI Tool for Public Debate
The Global Innovation Hub is exploring how digital tools can support transparent and inclusive public deliberation. One such tool is “Talk to the City” (T3C), an open source system that collects participants’ arguments, organizes them by theme and provides an overview of the discussion.This opportunity arose when Iris Müller from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s NRW office and Zoë van Doren from the Berlin office organized a student event in Bonn on the potential reintroduction of conscription.
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“A war between democracy and totalitarianism”
The Taiwan Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) invited Ms. Oleksandra Matviichuk, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to visit Taiwan. She spoke at a public forum titled “Ukraine and Taiwan Experiences: The Resilience of Democracy”. In her speech, Ms. Matviichuk emphasized: “Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. When ordinary people step up to help each other, they can change the trajectory of history.”
