For a while Taiwan was the largest polity trying this because of pressure. Now California adopted the same system. I worked with Newsom’s team for two years— infrastructure, deliberation, digital tools . We chose an uncontroversial issue: teenage use of social media . We were about to launch with children and parents; on the week of launch, wildfires happened. We pivoted immediately . The click‑through rate on wildfire recovery on the engaged.ca.gov page was 25% —five times more than anticipated—because of urgency. It delivered uncommon ground on wildfire-related issues.