Date: May 22, 2018
Topic: Civic Hackers Uprising, g0v.tw
Start from 2012, the g0v.tw (gov-zero Taiwan) civic hacking community grew to 1000+ contributors within 18 months, with a mix of 40% developer, 10% designer, 20% activists/people from government and 30% other specialist. Taiwan also topped the OKFN Open Data Index in 2015 and 2016 as the vibrant communities pushed for open government data, but more importantly the Open-Definition-compliant Open Government Data License was enacted, which was also drafted in the community.
With a decentralized and inclusive culture, the g0v community encourages projects to be open source and autonomous, as well as collaborating with activists and NGOS online and offline.
By changing government website urls from gov to g0v, citizens might found related certain administrations’ open datasets or civic tech projects, or the instructions for build up their own. This talk will present the highlighted achievement in past 5 years and the best practice about how to build up a civic tech community from the internet ground, and amplify the community’s impacts with openness, crowdsourcing civic tech tools.
Speakers:
- ttcat
Venue: Massey College