"G0v Zero" A Better Way to Give Ordinary People an Innovative and Direct Say in Their Government--Invented in Taiwan

G0v Zero combines wise AI, Crowd-Sourcing, Redesigned Institutions, and Truly Open Officials

Kick-started with the Sunflower Student Movement when in 2014, hundreds of angry Taiwanese occupied the Parliament in Taipei to protest secret trade negotiations between their then government and Beijing. Some high level software hackers, who'd designed AI democracy apps in 2012 that were intended to make Taiwan's new democracy widely participatory, well-informed, and entirely transparent showed up on the scene. They brought in experienced meeting facilitators and mediators, rigged up a video on the outside of the capital, to screen what was going on the inside to the thousands of citizens watching on the outside, filling the streets. 

Three weeks later, agreements had been reached. And in the next election, 2016,  the new president, Tsai Ing-wen and all but one of the newly elected majors of Taiwan's 5 major cities, won sweeping victories based on their own participation in the Sunflower Movement and strong commitment to its principles and processes. Now, tens of thousands of citizens, using digital democracy software specially designed [plu.is in Seattle] and put out any number of new ideas. 

Then, many rounds of citizen feedback later, sorting synthesizing and selecting, aided at each stage with AI sorting, these bottom up initiatives and agendas land in the appropriate portfolios of each national ministry, with the understanding--and direct expectation by President Ing Tsai, that these items will make up some half of the work of each ministry. All meetings are recorded on-line, open to the public, and each ministry website is pored over by "Wiki" volunteers to be illustrated and simplified as needed to assure the contents are readily usable by all members of the Taiwanese public.