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Inside Audrey Tang’s Plan to Align Technology with Democracy
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public interest software.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
vTaiwan is constantly experimenting with new deliberation and voting tools, integrating LLMs for summarization.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
More central to the heart of governmental responsibility in democracies, however, is the digitization of public services.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
policies of “humor over rumor” and “fast, fun and fair” responses.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
design of systems with strong anonymization and decentralization features that received broad acceptance.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The process involved many steps (proposal, opinion expression, reflection, and legislation) each harnessing a range of open source software tools, but has become best known for its use of the at-the-time(2015)-novel machine learning based open-source “wikisurvey”/social media tool Polis,
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Polis is a prominent example of what leading ⿻ technologists Aviv Ovadya and Luke Thorburn call "collective response systems" and "bridging systems" and others call "wikisurveys".