In 2014 President Ma’s approval was 9%. Anything with legitimacy above 9% met little resistance. Urgency calls for clarity. Without that phase change, if a government enjoys, say, 70% approval—as in 2020—then “disrupting” the CECC wouldn’t work; pilots would need higher legitimacy than 70%, impossible for pandemic control. So civic tech worked with CECC. The agenda came from CECC; civic tech focused on fairness in implementation.