vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
Mentioned in the article: As an accomplished programmer and a bit of an anarchist, Audrey Tang is a super interesting government minister.  I just came back from regularly scheduled office hours, which I find really rad for a minister to have (both walk-in and by appointment office hours are available).<p>I wanted to compliment her g0V org on a great rewrite of the online dictionary published by the Ministry of Education: really clean URLs, using open data for translations, publishing the original data under a nice license, behind a CDN – and she commented, oh yeah I just deployed an update (!).
<a href="https://www.moedict.tw/" rel="nofollow">https://www.moedict.tw/</a><p>Many years ago, Audrey also elucidated Chinese language Twitter users living in 2x the density of English users, which foreshadow's Twitter's decision in lengthening limits to 280 chars for English but not for Chinese: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875414" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875414</a><p>About g0v and a list of projects: <a href="http://g0v.asia/" rel="nofollow">http://g0v.asia/</a>