#eglenweyl — Public Fediverse posts

"Taiwan offers an alternative to both the top-down surveillance of the Chinese state and the advertising-driven Western tech giants. It has harnessed technology as a tool of democratic creativity (rather than, like Europe, focusing just on limiting the frightening harms of surveillance). And by doing so, Taiwan has created a model that holds great promise in the ongoing fight not only against the coronavirus but also against menacing dystopian technological futures"
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"In contrast, the Taiwanese response, based on an ethos of broad digital participation and community-driven tool development, was fast, precise, and democratic. By spreading participation in digital development broadly through society, Taiwan avoided both technocracy and technophobia, maintaining trust and the two-way flow of information in the face of a crisis."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"... the #AI prowess of #China and the #UnitedStates in fact stood in their way. Both have a technocratic, top-down vision of the future of AI, in which a small digital elite, concentrated in a few tech hubs and largely separated from the concerns of the rest of the population, produces tools meant to be used by the rest of the population. While the locus of this elite is the Communist Party in one case and West Coast tech hubs in the other, the logic is similar."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"Digital Minister #AudreyTang then proceeded to work closely with entrepreneurs and g0v hacktivists in a digital chatroom to rapidly produce a range of maps and applications. These tools showed where [#FaceMasks] were available, but they did more than that. Citizens were able to reallocate rations through intertemporal trades and donations to those who most needed them, which helped prevent the rise of a black market."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl

"A recent report from the #Stanford University School of Medicine documents 124 distinct [#COVID19] interventions that #Taiwan implemented with remarkable speed. Many of these interventions bubbled into the public sector through community initiatives, #hackathons, and digital deliberation on the #vTaiwan digital democracy platform, on which almost half the country’s population participates."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2020-03-20/how-civic-technology-can-help-stop-pandemic