Networking for Confidence

Hi frens,

It’s been Taipei Blockchain Week, but I didn’t have much time for it. Hope next year I’ll have more connections with people there, and even make Web3Matters Weekly as media partner!

I had to focus on my project “Voice of Legislative Yuan” (立法院大小聲). I was invited by my friend in CCW to a workshop with NGOs in Taiwan, and to meet new friends from Thailand and Japan, who also act to push transparency of the parliament.

We had translators throughout the workshop, and even with a friend fluent in Thai, English, and Japanese!

The g0v movement in Taiwan has been well known internationally. And my project started from my involvement in both CCW and g0v community, so I can stand on the shoulders of giants to see further.

Like, I was so impressed by “They Work for Us” website made by friends in Thailand. It started from “scanned PDFs” with OCR, data cleaning, and visualization.

The website of National Diet Library in Japan is a single page app (SPA), which means it’s already built based on APIs, a lot easier for software engineers to retrieve data.

Our friend, Ronny Wang from g0v, built an API around Legislative Yuan in Taiwan, to align with the API of Congress in United States.

We’re pushing the boundaries of transparent democracy and better governance. Despite having different languages, histories, and stages of democracy, governance is never easy in either the political or web3 space.

It’s been so great to connect with people who share similar core values.

Your friend,

Denken