The Transformation of the Taiwanese Government

The story of the transformation of the Taiwanese government over the last decade or so. A group of hackers originally started to organise and they called themselves Gov Zero. They created parallel websites, the government websites, all with the URLs ending G zero V dot two W. And on these websites, what you could do was scraped a load of data made available to upvote and downvote. In response to that, central government invited one of the leaders of the hacker movement to become a mentor to a government minister in 2014. Fasten number two years, there was a presidential election, power changed hands, and that person who had been invited to be a mentor now became a minister in their own right

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