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Re:vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance by Apocryphon on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:23AM (#17816282)
> In any case, Kao says, if vTaiwan’s recommendations are ultimately ignored, as they were with the alcohol sales law, then the whole process runs the risk of being viewed as “openwashing”—something that creates the pretense of transparency. “The end goal is legislation,” he says.

Sounds like what happened to We the People in the U.S.

Re:vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance by audreyt on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:52AM (#17816852)
Indeed, We the People was one of the earliest inspirations of the Join platform.

After I joined the cabinet as the Digital Minister, we have iterated on it quite a bit: https://civichall.org/civicist/what-vtaiwan-teaches-us-about...