Um, so one clarification though: Engaged California is a general-purpose platform that any ministry within the state government, as well as potentially city-level or maybe even district-level governments in the future, can reuse to introduce their own topics. There are also conversations about enabling, like in Taiwan, a citizen e-petition, so that people who collect, say, 10,000 signatures can kind of force a consultation on the Engaged California platform. So the enabling conditions are for the legitimacy of the platform over career public service. But once the public service accepts it as a risk-reduction tool—and increasingly with AI, also a time-saving tool—then they are more willing to put issues of lesser urgency on the platform, just because the bootstrapping cost has been absorbed by the urgent first case.

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