I think by aligning ourselves explicitly with the institutions that have a reputation of being credibly neutral. For example, in Taiwan, the National Academy or Academia asymica reports just to the president, but not to any of the ministers, not even the ministers of science or education. And so the National Academy has always been for the past decades the place where the zero movement and other civic tech people hold their most important gatherings because it’s seen as a place that transcends academically, partisan divides. There’s many more examples. But in the interest of time, the career bureaucrats, they’re also here to increase the bandwidth of democracy.

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