How to Build Consensuentio

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Agan, i'd now like to go into some of the specific tools you talked about. I've been particularly impressed with wicky survey tool, moldadias. Could you just talk a little bit about how that works and the role it's played in hoping to reach consentsuentio. You look at one sentiment from your fellow citizens, and you basically click only upvote or down vote or pass. And so they converge on feelings that we resident, not only with their isle, but across the aisle.

Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audio and video of all conversations between lawmakers and lobbyists are available to the public immediately. Conspiracy theories are acted upon within two hours and replaced by humorous videos that clarify the truth. Imagine that expressing outrage about your local political environment turned into a participatory process where you were invited to solve that problem and even entered into a face to face group workshop. Does that sound impossible? It’s ambitious and optimistic, but that's everything that our guest this episode, Audrey Tang, digital minister of Taiwan, has been working on in her own country for many years. Audrey’s path into public service began in 2014 with her participation in the Sunflower Movement, a student-led protest in Taiwan’s parliamentary building, and she’s been building on that experience ever since, leading her country into a future of truly participatory digital democracy.