Mhm. Well, it is true that as of last year, Taiwan was the largest polity in which this kind of institutionalized digital democracy platform have worked, but this year not anymore. Because we have Engaged California running now; Governor Newsom, we have been working for two years or so, to launch this platform, which is essentially an application of a model inspired by vTaiwan so that people in California can crowdsource their ideas and deliberate online, again, in a room where there’s no reply button or retweet button. So people in California can deliberate about ideas, for example, how to mitigate wildfires, because that was launched during the Los Angeles wildfire recovery efforts in Eaton and Palisade.

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