Friday, May 8, 2020
10-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time
Webinar
View the video recording of the event here and Sita Magnuson's graphic recording here.
In the new world made by the coronavirus, there has been a lot of discussion recently about online collaboration and work. But what about governance? If we are to have community-owned platforms, we’ll have to skill up in platform-based community governance. In this webinar, we are joined by two people who have been doing just that—in contexts ranging from crisis relief to running a national government.
Speakers
- Liz Barry (Director of Community Development, Public Lab)
- Cui Jia Wei (contributor, vTaiwan)
Moderated and organized by Danny Spitzberg (Community Fellow, MEDLab).
Resources
- Nathan Schneider, “What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work,” Hacker Noon (Sep. 11, 2019)
- Liz Barry, “vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy,” Civic Hall (Aug. 11, 2016)
- Claudina Sarahe and Darshana Narayanan, “In Search of 21st Century Democracy: Two Weeks in Taipei,” Civicist (Dec. 14, 2017)
- Diego Rafael Canabarro, Catherine D'Ignazio, Jeff Warren, “Less is more: The Role of Small Data in 21st Century Governance,” DigitalGovernance (Dec. 2, 2014)
- Yu Hsiao, Shu-Yang Lin, Audrey Tang, Darshana Narayanan, and Claudina Sarahe, “vTaiwan: An Empirical Study of Open Consultation Process in Taiwan,” SocArXiv (July 4, 2018)
Hosted by the Media Enterprise Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder and Zebras Unite, with support from the Open Society Foundations, which are not responsible for the content.