During the Sunflower movement, I personally facilitated 2k people doing deliberation on the street. And there’s one guy propose a question kind of out of the topic but I can’t forget. He said: Why those civil society always set up the topic we’re protesting or statement by themselves and we ...

Just add one point: For certain controversy topics, there would be a lot of people join to the debet, those model they mention should work well. But for those topics is not so popular, how you get people focus for a certain amount of time to talk would be a ...

I don’t know if Taiwan have already reinvent the democracy or not. But there are many lessons I’ve learned from civil society. From the Sunflower Movement, we see the representative system failed - they couldn’t hear what people really want. But why we need the representative democracy? Hundreds years ago ...

Subculture has been an important role in the social movements. For instance, anti-nuclear movement is near 30+ years old in Taiwan, and it’s deeply connect to our political movement. Every time the generation of my parents hears anti-nuclear, they just think it’s DDP’s propaganda. But after Fukushima disaster, people start ...

Agreeing but you know Taiwan’s situation with China. We want to show the world that we’re different with China. Like we are open, they are closed; we are democracy and they are... China. That’s why the Sunflower Movement was so big and how we got to this stage.

Sunflower movement held deliberation meetings on issues we think the system goes wrong with near 2k people on the street. We used hand signals - like Occupy Wall Street. People in the meetings talking about our system and constitution problems. We did this only to show the government our demands, ...

I spent last 12 years in Taiwan’s social movement and I’m also a coder, that’s why I joined g0v in 2013. I think that either vTaiwan or other platforms that Audrey is trying to implement in gov, traditional civil society just doesn’t learn this kind of stuff. I mean CSOs ...