The PO network was designed to empower the “Peggys” in every ministry. Each ministry has its own culture of listening. Health relies heavily on expert opinion (atomic energy even more so); their power was translating expert knowledge into something laypeople could meaningfully engage. The Ministry of Culture, under Cheng Li‑chun, crowdsourced the Basic Culture Act—horizontally from the start. With 32 ministries and 32 cultures, a single minister without portfolio cannot direct them all. The only workable approach is fractal: each minister has trusted POs who bring their culture to a horizontal coalition, while each ministry leads its own open‑government plan. Recursively, agencies and departments have second‑level POs. Eventually, no agency fears engaging people directly on Join . That was the idea.