So he used sensemaking tools introduced in the book, like Talk to the City and Polis to crowdsource his campaign. He live-streamed on YouTube 24/7. You could even call into a number to talk to his voice clone and ask questions, or maybe hashtag #TokyoAI to post your suggestion to his platform. This uncommon ground built using these broad listening technologies then became his updated platform on GitHub, and his avatar just kept narrating these updates. His platform became the top independently ranked platform. Koike-san was impressed enough to tap Anno-san’s expertise to join GovTech Tokyo to enable this broad listening as a Tokyo city metropolitan infrastructure—the same idea as Engaged California.

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