That’s Minister Jaclyn Tsai, originally led IBM Asia’s law department. The thing is that after this kind of method, we extract promise from all the stakeholders. If their promise overlap, we have a bill right there. If we don’t, if it needs more clarification, help from the local government and so on, as it currently is, everybody know why UberX is still illegal.
There’s no lobbying. It’s totally transparent. Until the promise is met, there’s no legalization. The AirBnB people saw this way, and then they took the same deliberation process, except they encouraged all their members to join, and then they agreed on each and every consensus, so it could be made legal.
My point is that with this kind of empowered space, the private sector and the civil society can trust each other in this kind of space, and then they trust the government to propose the early stage idea and upload it to the public deliberation. The public petitioned ideas can also upload into the government, so it becomes a bi-directional link.
We know iterated, repeated bi-directional link are the foundation of trust. Without that, you do not have trust.