Beyond Civic Hacking
@gugod
http://g0v.asia/tw http://g0v.tw (with 💟 from @clkao, @au, & 1000+ people)
Civic Hacker
n. One who collaborates with others to create, build, and invent open source solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to their neighborhood, city, state, or country.
ref: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civic_hacker
Taiwan-based community
24 Mounths 20+ Hackathons 1000+ Contributors 30% Activists/gov 40% Developers 40% Designers 30+ Projects 30+ Talks
gov Budget dynamic visualization
http://budget.g0v.tw
Crowd OCR of polital donation report.
http://campaign-finance.g0v.ctiml.tw/
10k ppl cleared data for 7 MPs within 24hrs
Congress meeting / sitting
http://ly.g0v.tw/
Summerize of Congress member votes
http://vote.ly.g0v.tw
Summerize of the activity of our
civil servents visiting foriegn countries.
http://report.nat.g0v.tw
Visualizae the relations between big companies
http://company-graph.g0v.ronny.tw/
Much⁹ Better Dictionary UI for dictionary from Ministry of Education.
http://moedict.tw
Visualize our enviromental mersurement
Air, Rain, background radiation.
http://env.g0v.tw/
Visualize the availability of ER rooms
in public hospitals (31 hospitals)
http://er.mohw.g0v.tw/
http://g0v.tw/en-US/projects.html
By 2011, 75% online Taiwanease are using Facebook.
However, netizens remained pessimistic about the potential of existing social media outlets and portals to spark civic empowerment — or even engagement — online.
WIRED magazine: Do you see Facebook as an instrument to encourage civic engagement?
Chang Ta-Chuen (張大春): No, I can most definitely say, absolutely not. It makes citizens feel as if they have participated. […] I still can’t see how an actual, practical activism can succeed at engaging people, as lazy as we are.
What should the government be like in the 22nd century?
粗略的共識 進擊の程式
– @au
Rough concencius, Runnable program.
- press interests (udn, appledaily, …)
- feedback http://data.gov.tw
- gov interests
As not why nobody is doing this, ask youself to be that nobody.
irc:// freenode / #g0v.tw