The M P Per View Is Just Like the M P

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The blue print is already provided by the govero community. And azera always relinquished a copyright associated with that. So we basically just took their cod and did the maintenance part of the back and infina structure, which doesn't take a lot of flies ofth tod. The parliament in britain arose out of the king's attempt to gain information about what was going on in the kingdom. Only as it became increasingly relied upon did it then become a formal power structure. i think we're seeing something similar where people are inventing some tools to help people get more information,. but on the other hand, it's sort of becoming its own system of government. Yet.

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.