vTaiwan: consensus at national scale
Taiwan's vTaiwan process pairs Pol.is opinion mapping with face-to-face deliberation: crowdsourced statements reveal rough consensus, then stakeholders meet to work the remaining tensions. It shaped national policy, most famously the ride-sharing rules.
Place: Taiwan.
vTaiwan remains the reference case for scaling listening without flattening it. Statements are crowdsourced and voted on in Pol.is until the opinion groups and the bridging statements are visible; then the people who disagree meet in person to work the parts the map could not settle. The ride-sharing (Uber) rules are the best-known outcome.
The pattern a neighborhood can borrow: opinion map online first, then work the hard parts face to face. The map is the agenda, not the decision.
Details
- place: Taiwan
- sources: https://compdemocracy.org/case-studies/vtaiwan/, https://compdemocracy.org/knowledge-base/
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Build prompt
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Build prompt
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Tool
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Tool
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Recipe
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Original source: https://compdemocracy.org/case-studies/vtaiwan/
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